No problems until today

Been playing COH for about a week now, tried to run the game today and ran into the error: Detected video card, or driver is currently unsupported ATI mobility Radeon HD2600. I used COH Helper and this is what I got.

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at September 1, 2011 15:01 (-04:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)
System Manufacturer: Gateway
System Model: M-6864FX
BIOS: BIOS Version 89.24
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 4096MB
.Net Memory Report: 2336MB out of 4094MB available
Page File: 5912MB (2274MB currently in use)
C Drive: (ST9200420AS ATA Device) 7987MB out of 174683MB (4%) free
D Drive: (ST9200420AS ATA Device) 8206MB out of 16096MB (50%) free
F Drive: (WD Ext HDD 1021 USB Device) 856569MB out of 953865MB (89%) free
G Drive: (MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000) zero-size drive
E Drive: (Optiarc DVD RW AD-7563A ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x9581)
Video Memory: 2290 MB
Driver Version: 8.631.0.0
Driver Date: 6/25/2009 10:28:02 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7601.17514
Driver Date: 11/20/2010 6:44:23 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gateway
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product:
Motherboard Version: Rev1.91.24
BIOS Manufacturer: Gateway
BIOS Name: BIOS Version 89.24
BIOS Version: GATEWA - 6040000
BIOS Release: 20080522000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 8000x6000
3D Resolution: 8000x6000 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No


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: Unknown (20)
Bloom: Unknown (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (30)


World Texture Level: Unknown (3)
Character Texture Level: Unknown (4)
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.510
Entity Detail Level: Unknown
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (20)
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (10)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Unknonwn (30)
Ambient Resolution: Unknonwn (10)


Gamma Correction: Unknown
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: No
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: Unknown
Music Sound Volume: Unknown

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: Unknown
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 2060.201108180101.1.0
Installation Directory: F:\Program Files\City Of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

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Any idea what the problem is??

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Probably the servers being down.

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IIRC, that is the generic driver that Windows 7 installs and it doesn't include OpenGL support.

There have been several reports of problems with the current 11.8 desktop drivers (and I doubt the Mobility drivers are any better) and previous versions as well. It's easy to find the older desktop drivers on the ATI site, but I'm having no luck finding the older Mobility drivers for your card and OS combination.

As for the Gateway site, well, when I go to the information pages on that notebook it shows that it comes with an ATI Mobility 2600. When you go to the Drivers and Downloads pages, it only lists Intel drivers. Way to go Gateway.

Luckily, you can download the 11.3 Mobility drivers from TechPowerUp. You may be able to find links to the 11.4, 11.2, 11.1 or earlier drivers with a little searching.

Be sure to follow proper Un-installation procedures using a program like Driver Sweeper after uninstalling your old drivers but before rebooting. This will remove left-over bits of the previous driver so that you can cleanly install other drivers.

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