Need updated BootCamp ATI Graphics Drivers for Aluminum iMac!!

It worked!!!!!!!!

Immense thanks, Alec, for the post. Since I'm running Vista under BootCamp, I needed to modify the instructions on the link below ... and didn't need to do the Mobility Modder thing at all. The trick was being able to find the .inf file in the ATI driver package, and then manually pointing to it. For the record, here's Tweeker's original post on how to update the ATI 2600 drivers in XP:


http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1017&message=24987376


Here's my slight modification on how I did this in Vista:

Step 1 in the above link says to download Dot Net 2.0 since the ATI driver installer needs it, but since Visat already has Dot Net installed, this wsn't needed.

Step 2, go to ATI driver support page and download the latest Catalyst driver for 32-bit Vista for teh Radeon HD 2600 series, current driver is v7.10 ( https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/gamesite/7-10vista32_dd53254.exe)

Step 3, after download, launch the installer, let it extract the installer files into C:\ATI, and then at the next screen quit the installer. (Note: if you don't do this the installation will continue just fine, and you'll get a working driver but it WON'T be one that works with Quake War: Enemy Territory for reasons described below. To get this to work (and that's the whole point) proceed with the manual process below. If by chance you let the installer do its thing all the way through, now worries, you can uninstall the ATI driver package from the control panel and you'll be rebooted running a standard VGA driver. At this point you can simply continue with the manual process below since the files you need are alerady in C:\ATI)

Step 4, close out the installer and right click on My Computer, go to Properties.

Step 5, go to the Hardware tab in Properties, and then to the Device Manager, drop down the Display adapters, and you should see Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT, this is WRONG, the video card is not an XT version like it's been rumored to be on the web, it's not a mobile card either.

Step 6, right click on the video card and choose Update Driver, in Vista now pick "Browse my computer for driver software",

Step 7, in the next box don't start browsing yet!!, instead pick "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer", and then click on the "Have Disk" button.

Step 8, Now click Browse and go to C: > ATI > SUPPORT > 7-10 vista32_dd53254 > Packages > Drivers > Display > LH_INF, and select the CL_53254.inf file in there, and click Open.

Step 9, now you should have a huge list of the graphics cards, this is all the cards that the Catalyst driver supports, you want to find ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, and install that, you might get a message saying this driver isn't certified, ignore it and continue.

Step 10, after all is finished, reboot.

Voila!!!! Enemy Territory will now scream on your Alu iMac

This is all I needed to do to get going, so you can stop here if you wish. The intructions for XP, however, then go on to say:

"The only down side to this, nobody has found a way to fully install Catalyst Control Center, so if you wanna get down and dirty in the video cards settings, you will have to download a program called ATI Tray Tool, you can easily find it with Google, it's basically a ATI CCC clone, lets you force the video cards features like Antialiasing and v-sync."

I've seen multiple opinions on this ... most say that it is possible to install the ATI catalyst control center, and this is preferred over the ATI Tray Tool, but opinions differ on how to do the install. I haven't explored these options a) because I don't seem to need it, and b) now that my display drivers are happy, the last thing I want to do is undo a good thing by somehow messing up the CCC install!


Rock on.

N