ATI Radeon Driver for Windows 2000

[Gluckdesvosges.]

9 hours ago, Gluckdesvosges. said:

Nevermind I didn't know that internet explorer 6 sp1 was needed as well as Update Rollup 1 officiel v2. I got both installed and ATI driver 10.5, works fine now, but a BSOD at the shut down, probably just because of a previous nvidia driver as i wanted to use a GTS450. I'll be back if the probleme is related to the ATI

Hey, I got a new problem, my driver works but, ATI tool reset my pc when opened, and catalyst software newer shown itself on my screen, even though I clicked it, just a fast little loading ring  and nothing else, any idea?

[ruthan]

Im trying to make some Radeons HD working.

I made Radeon 3470 working fine with Black Wing cat 12.xx and last extended kernel , but i have trouble with Radeon 7350, i installed 12.xx drivers again OpenGL - Quake 3 and Unigine Heaven are running, but not DirectDraw Acceleration or Direct 3D, there is no Direct3D device present, same with DxDiag, probably problem with some registry Direct 3D device HAL definition.

  I have also some problem with Windows 2000 drivers in overall, for some reason when i load some drivers file i see just white area without entries where drivers should be.. and its different error than not compatible drivers where found, in that case i get popup with same error message. It seems that some drivers database or parsing is broken  So i cant use Display compatible devices dialog and i can only use Search driver, point to folder and inf and let driver to be autodected, but i can force specific driver.

There is also problem with Catalyst Center, old ATI installers have some standalone installer for it, but newer version have it embedded within drivers installer i failed to extract it from it.
I also find out that some newer Catalyst center had less options than older version - so far im using  Catalyst reporting this version 1.2.2314.20337 -from 2006, i dont remember which version its in ATI numbering.

[ruthan]

I have tried Radeon 7750, but its the same.

I have tried export and import Direct 3D registry keys from WIndows XP, but its not that easy.. 

Dxdiag:

DXdiag from XP:

  VDD - is empty, but DDI is found with 9.
  Memory is listed as 1024 and DirectDraw and Direct3D Accelerations are enabled..

When i try Unigine Heaven DirectX9 on Win 2000.. Im getting this message:
D3D9APPWindows:: create_context(); required multisample is not supported.
Engine::video::restart(); cant set 640x360 windowed mode

  I really dunno how to debug this, it seems that for some reason driver loading not loading Direct3D at all, or try and fail during driver initialization or registry keys with card features are not properly set in registry..
  I never was able to fix this other way than reinstall some "better" driver, but this one is already only 1 unofficial one

Inf problems:
 To not visible devices in the driver list - i suspect this ExcludeFromSelect=* - parameter, for some reason its used,if im not wrong it means that detected devices are actually hidden from the list.. that is strange decision when there is not classic *.exe installer and its installed through *.inf files.
  Im staring to understand more and more .Inf files structure, but defined the whole Direct 3D environment seems to be too many variable, not enough knowledge problem. I found some 4 years old reddit post, which is claiming that Radeon 7750 is running fine, in his machine but i dunno with which drivers and if Direct3D is really working.
  This sort of classic ATI problem in reverse, usually Direct3D is fine and OpenGL is broken / messing.. Especially with Windows NT / 2000.. or simply OpenGL implementation is buggy.

In Dxdiag its clear that these are wrong:
DDI - Device Driver Interface - max directX available is not detected.

Used BlackWingsCat - 12.xx driver inf file,
- i have tried to compare it with last drivers from ATI, but again there is quite a lot of variables:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jd727zhvfzvhv1vg6arqc/CX137814.inf?rlkey=rmt7b35yb0i56wt6wngndtwet&dl=1

Maybe this could be problem my cards are 1 GB, if this is in MB:
MaximumDeviceMemoryConfiguration=512
and for my card seems to be this branch of .inf file is used: ati2mtag_R575, for Radeon 7350, it was ati2mtag_Evergreen.

Edited 20 hours ago by ruthan

[ruthan]

I fixed it. 

I did multiple changes, so its not clear what actually helped, but better to try 3 things that zillion and maybe some combination of these things is needed.

I reinstalled DirectX, but Dxdiag still not should any compatible version after reboot, so this probably did not helped.
I disabled ExcludeFromSelect=* line, to be able select device through loading list of devices dialog.. so i was able to install 13.xx Black wing cat driver / Maybe 13.xx are better than 12.xx
I increased max memory for my card from 512 to 1024 - probably this was main problem.

Its  working fine with PAE switch, i but im running only on 8 GB of 16 GB, because of Advanced server license limit, if was unable to find some PAE patch compatible with Win2000, there are some universal patches which claims Win2000 support, but during installation it fails on some missing API call.

Now i can play Crysis on Windows 2000, they is patch for Windows 2000, even patch for Crysis demo..

Windows 2000 is limiter for my machine - R7750 + Ivy Bridge Core i5 .. but with this its working great quad boot 32 bit all with PAE - 3k / XP / Vista / Win 7 + Mx Linux better internet surfing and Steam games through Proton Wine.
Yeah for Nvidia Black Wing Cat patches up to Geforce 960 or 980, these are much faster, so i did not tested them.. My Radeon 7750 is nice with passive cooling 50W TDP total silent.. Yeah there is KalmX Geforce 750, im not sure if there even was such Geforce 950.