ATI power management for Windows 7

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Hello.

The card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600.
I used to run my Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate x64 on the latest ATI windows drivers because they were BSOD-free, however they were quite old, not updated at all since 2009.
I installed then catalyst 13.1 (the latest 13.9 wouldn't work and 13.1 was widely suggested).
This one gives me atikmdag.sys BSOD occasionally however virtualbox and bluestacks wouldn't work without the newer ATI drivers at all.
What's missing now is the ATI power saving setting from windows power profiles.
I need it badly as now the GPU idles at 52C, with the older drivers it would idle at 29C and nearly every game would run identically well.

How can I add the ATI power setting to the windows power profiles?

I wasn't quite sure whether this should be posted in Windows 7 or Graphics forum.

Thanks in advance.
 
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This again is the case. I kept running my system safely on MS GPU drivers. Now I need Direct3D acceleration for apps I run in my virtualbox, it fails to detect it because my drivers only support OpenGL 1.1 and not 2.1, however my host system offers full DirectX acceleration.

I brought that issue up with AMD and they suggest I use auto-detect tool which is going to suggest the newest CCC again, with no power play settings that keeps my GPU working in idle state even with CPU/SSD/network idle for 10 minutes straight.

I'm completely clueless as to what causes GPU to work and be hot when the entire system is idle.

I'd really appreciate help, somebody there has had to come across such issue.

Thanks.
 
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No follow-up answer from AMD yet but I seem to have solved the problem myself after hours of research.
Apparently modern CCCs, even those suggested by AMD auto-detect tool, do not fully support mobile Radeon HD cards. The PowerPlay was not with either the driver or the CCC.

I then noticed "mobility CCC" in Google search results and tried to find the oldest one for Vista/7 x64. Either that helped or the fact they were WHQL tested. I downloaded 10-3_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe.

As usual I installed the driver only, I would install CCC next after reboot, however that was not necessary, the driver itself provided PowerPlay available in windows power profiles, which is awesome.
AIDA64 reports full support for OpenGL 3.2, which also is awesome.

The download link (unofficial but scanned, tested and installed by me on a highly secured system) is http://strags.com/d/10-3_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe (to be moderated if against the rules).

Please mark this post as the solution to the original problem for the sake of future wanderers with ATI Mobility HD cards.
 
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