15.02.2010, 06:42
philip, what ATi card does your laptop use? If you're using an HD4xxx series, don't use anything newer than Catalyst 9.10 - newer drivers are designed for the 5xxx series card and severely degrade the performance of the older models. Plus they produce horrible graphics artifacts in Il-2.
A guide - download Catalyst 9.10 (recommended) for your Windows OS from ATI's site to a clean folder on your HDD, then either:
1. Find a driver cleaner program - best results for clean install, but I can't recommend anything, esp. for a newbie
2. Go to (under Windows XP) Start Menu -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Clean-Up and select the drive on which the OS is installed (C: by default). Depending on your driver version you should have either "Ati Uninstall Utility" or just "Ati Catalyst Control Center" - select "remove", uninstall. Check to see if default video driver has been removed too.
Restart PC, open the folder where the new driver is, start install and proceed - whether custom or quick install is up to you - once finished, restart again. And you're done.
If everything has gone properly, the CCC should remember your profiles and settings. I don't know about hotkeys, but I assume those should be saved too.
Hope this helps.
A guide - download Catalyst 9.10 (recommended) for your Windows OS from ATI's site to a clean folder on your HDD, then either:
1. Find a driver cleaner program - best results for clean install, but I can't recommend anything, esp. for a newbie
2. Go to (under Windows XP) Start Menu -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Clean-Up and select the drive on which the OS is installed (C: by default). Depending on your driver version you should have either "Ati Uninstall Utility" or just "Ati Catalyst Control Center" - select "remove", uninstall. Check to see if default video driver has been removed too.
Restart PC, open the folder where the new driver is, start install and proceed - whether custom or quick install is up to you - once finished, restart again. And you're done.
If everything has gone properly, the CCC should remember your profiles and settings. I don't know about hotkeys, but I assume those should be saved too.
Hope this helps.