Alienware m17x r3 amd radeon 6870m driver issues

Hi

I recently got a m17x r3, I fitted brand new hard drives And did a fresh install of Windows 7 pro.

Installed all of the required drivers which I got from Dell using my service tag. Device manager shows the drivers

AMD Radeon 6870m
Intel HD 3000

I have been met with two issues.

1. The Amd Radeon 6870 driver causes a flickering at the top and bottom of the screen (mainly when you maximize a screen, go full screen when watching a movie or scroll down a page)

2. With all graphics drivers installed I have not been able to switch between graphics, I press fn+f7 it shows the dialogue box saying switchable graphics button pressed and press yes to enable but nothing happens.

I have tried downloading the latest driver from AMD which I think is catalyst 15.6 and it doesn't flicker at all but I think it's because I am always stuck on the Intel 3000 and the AMD graphics is not running (dxdiag shows Intel 3000 as running)

Have tried installing fresh after using driver sweeper in safe mode and have also used ccleaner but not made any difference.

Any help would be most appreciated

Thanks

 

I have the same problems as you, have you figured out how to get around it yet