City of Heroes and Dell Latitude d810

I am trying to run CoX on a Dell Latitude d810, don't know if its base spec, but that doesn't matter cause I'm going to have the CoH Helper stuff below anyways. I'm wondering if its a futile fight to be trying to get it to run.

I've tried looking for stuff on atioglxx.dll (the crash I get) but I'm not getting anywhere with that.

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at August 25, 2010 02:58 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Latitude D810
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
Central Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
Memory: 1024MB
.Net Memory Report: 613MB out of 1023MB available
Page File: 2161MB (299MB currently in use)
C Drive: (HTS726060M9AT00) 20910MB out of 57231MB (36%) free
D Drive: (PHILIPS CDRW/DVD SCB5265) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor: Default Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / MOBILITY RADEON X600 (0x3150)
Video Memory: 128.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6483
Driver Date: 1/11/2005 1:18:42 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: SigmaTel C-Major Audio
Driver File: STAC97.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.4243.0000
Driver Date: 9/15/2004 7:53:12 PM

WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 0D8006
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
BIOS Name: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
BIOS Version: DELL - 27d50219
BIOS Release: 20050225000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: Medium quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Medium?

World Texture Level: Low
Character Texture Level: Medium
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Stencil shadows
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance

Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1850.201007290124.20T2
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

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Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6483
Driver Date: 1/11/2005 1:18:42 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: SigmaTel C-Major Audio
Driver File: STAC97.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.4243.0000
Driver Date: 9/15/2004 7:53:12 PM

I am reading this as your drivers for vid and sound 5 yrs old, that may be where your problem is. Somebody with more skills then I should be along soon and let you know for sure. Thats where I would start though.

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Thanks, I'm hoping for some help, and I have tried updating the drivers, but apparently its not getting em just right.

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your DirectX is out of date as well.

Also you should probablt turn all of your graphics settings for the game all the way down or off

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You need to get the ATI Legacy 9.11 drivers. There are reports that the Legacy 10.2 have issues with CoH so use the 9.11 drivers I linked above.

You'll still need to crank the graphics pretty low.

The only other thing I can really see that hasn't been mentioned is that you only have 1 Gb of RAM. The maximum your system can handle is 2 Gb so you may want to max it out to give it the best opportunity to handle the game and other programs.

EDIT: The other alternative for your graphics drivers would be to download the most current ATI drivers and download the ATI Mobility Modder Tool and follow the instructions step by step on the Mobility Modder site for how to modify the drivers. The Mobility Modder Tool will only work on certain chipsets so make sure yours is on the list before trying it. The X600 you have is on the list.

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