RADEON X1250 DRIVER VISTA INSTALL
The whole thing is stupid, and I don't believe for a second that there is any physical limitation of the card to display these types of graphics.īecause with that same Radeon 9200, I can install Sabayon Linux, or the new Ubuntu 8, and I get the wobbly windows, the translucent effects, and a fully 3 dimensional desktop, with 4 desktops on a cube, which I can zoom out of, and choose a new clean desktop to open another program on, etc. with no problems! And 3D games work perfectly. I have not tried that, but one never knows. Viola!įinally you will probably be able to install some kind of ATI panel, which gives you more options. You are going to tell it you will browse, and 'let me pick' then choose 'display adapter' and point it you the folder you extracted to your desktop. (Unfortunately, this is the only method I found whereby the drivers actually worked without crashing the computer upon reboot).ġ)Boot it up from external monitor (Will probably give you dual display automatically)Ģ) Next, get some XP drivers, (I downloaded the compaq ones, I think)ģ) Exact them using winrar or something to your desktop.Ĥ) go to the control panel -> system -> device manager and then Display adapters and update the driver. Give it up! Anyway, you areįirst, you will need to connect your laptop to a external monitor. Run your machine just as fast as under XP with 3D acceleration enabled.ĭVDs/Divx etc will also run as smoothly as under XP.
With this method (provided you have 1 gig of ram) you will be able to Please note this is not my work (I read it elsewhere) but I think it should be okay to share it with you. Hello, just a note to anyone having problems installing ATI radeon 9200 drivers in Vista.