ATI Radeon Xpress 200M with Windows 7

Hello everybody,
I read here you are talking about the graphic cards. I have a big problem too.
I have a Toshiba laptop with an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphic card and it isn't working good with Windows 7. It was recognized by the windows but I can't even play the solitaire.
I downloaded many drivers but still not working. (download from US, but I'm from EU-Romania so I also downloaded from there too).
And now I don't know what I can do, I can't wait too much to a working driver because I'm working in the autocad so I need a good resolution and a faster computer.
I don't want to uninstall the windows7 because I think it's going good enough.
Please somebody help me, Thanks
Emőke

Hi p_emoke

Have you tried the legacy drivers from this page - ATI Catalyst™ Legacy Display Driver

I must warn you though I upgraded my graphics from the Xpress 200 Series on a desktop. It was not stable and continued to freeze momentarily while trying to move forward and backward watching movies. I lost Aero a few times and needed to reboot to get Aero Features working again.

Thank you for your quick answer

I cannot for every solution i have tryed from micorsoft to AMD to forum's like this, get aero to work have DIRECT X 11 don't ask me how i just have it, and whenever i try to re run desktop window manager through services in windows 7 it doesn't do anything at the last straw now if i can't fix it ill just smash it up to feel better hope it won't come to that thanks. i have tryed every solution i can think of and none works HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS HAVE A ATI RADEON 4350 HD HDMI 1 GB CARD WITH PCIE EXPRESS & VGA K .

What type of video card do you have? Brand and model?

Is is a laptop or desktop computer?

Please give us as much information as possible.

Aero quite simply cannot run on some computers and I would think your Autocad application would only run slower with Aero enabled.

Have you checked out this ...
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...-in-windows-7/

Just because the DirectX Diagnostic Tool shows DirectX 11 does not mean it will run on your 4350 series ATI Radeon card. Windows 7 installs DirectX 11. Radeon 3800 and 4300 series cards are only capable of using DirectX 10.

Your AERO should run better and I'm baffled why it is not working on your configuration. I have an ATI Radeon HD 3850 PCI-E card w/512MB DDR3 and AERO runs fine for me.

Here's what mine shows:



NOTE:

After further research I believe I have found the reason for your low score. The HD 4350 is a low-end 4000 series card. It only has 80 stream processors and 8 texture units compared to my HD 3850 which has 320 stream processors and 16 texture units. In addition the bus width is only 64 bit versus mine which has a 256 bit bus.

The Attached graph from AnandTech.com shows the relative differences in some ATI Radeon card models. Even though my HD 3850 is NOT listed, its specs are identical to the HD 3870 except for the Memory Clock speed.



I hope this explains why your WEI score is so much different than what you were probably expecting.

~Nibs

Have you rebooted Windows 7 lately. Radeon 4350 is more than enough to run Windows Aero. The few times I lost Aero with Radeon Xpress 200, I needed to reboot to correct the problem.

Hi im new to w7 and am having problems. I have a HP DV8000 with a ATI Xpress 200M and im having problems loading a game that worked on my old computer that had a worste grafics card this this. (seriously) My computer wont even let me use a 3D screensaver and i know that the 200M should be more then capable to run even that. Ive tried different drivers and such but nothing seems to work...help lol

Hi mjb.lowe - Welcome to w7forums

Windows 7 is more demanding on graphics than the other operating systems. The Radeon Xpress 200 is borderline on the requirements for Windows 7. You might try disabling Windows Aero, this may improve the performance during game play. Other than disabling Windows Aero, I'm not sure what to tell you for a solution on a laptop.

I'm not going to lie to you, there is not much you can do when hardware just is not enough for the operating system.