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    Anything better than the AMD 13.3 Beta?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by tripleh3lix, Sep 8, 2013.

  1. tripleh3lix

    tripleh3lix Notebook Consultant

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    Just curious. I am running the beta and getting slightly better framerates than the beginning and standard drivers with Crysis 3, but anything that enhances it or fixes any glitches in games? The floors and stuff in Crysis 2 are black and I believe it's a driver issue. Crysis 3 I haven't encountered these issues as of yet.
     
  2. tchig0zette

    tchig0zette Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, for sure, you can try nvidia 320 series driver, it'll increase your fps :)
     
  3. shinob!

    shinob! Notebook Consultant

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    Eh...if you look at his question & sig,Tripleh3lix is using an AMD card,so I don't recommend the Nvidia driver.(no offense :))
    Anyway,I'm using 13.4 WHQL at the moment,very stable in Crysis & slight performance increase over 13.3 in all other games I have been playing.
     
  4. tchig0zette

    tchig0zette Notebook Consultant

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    Heuuu, it was a joke ....... :p
     
  5. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    13.4 version is pretty stable, I can confirm that :)
     
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    minhajmsd Notebook Guru

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    The latest 13.10 beta haven't given me any problems so far...you should give em a try

    Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
     
  7. MogRules

    MogRules Notebook Deity

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    I have been using the 13.10 beta drivers as well and they have been working pretty well for me, no problems that I can think of.
     
  8. jamesqin

    jamesqin Newbie

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    hey, after reinstalling my GPU the only driver I was able to get to work was the one from the alienware official page (Video_Driver_4NYM5_WN_9.003_A00). In CCC it reads the catalyst version as 13.8, but I'm quite sure that its much older driver.

    If I download the official install tool from AMD it says I have unsupported hardware (I assume thats because the newer drivers dont support the switchable graphics?) and when I downloaded the latest driver manually it just failed to install (clean install).

    Could you please point me to a direction where to get these working drivers? Assuming they are more up to date than whats on alienware page.

    Thank you!
     
  9. minhajmsd

    minhajmsd Notebook Guru

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    Catalyst version is different than the driver version...the latest driver version is 13.2 something. Regarding the installation of latest drivers, are you downloading the mobility version of the drivers?

    Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
     
  10. jamesqin

    jamesqin Newbie

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    I see. I assume I am - if you go to AMD Graphics Drivers & Software - and I download the Automatic Detect and Install - it will go great and detect the driver, but when it downloads the 1.1mb installer (or verification tool) it gives me the unsupported hardware error. I can also manually select the notebook graphics -> radeon hd -> hd6xxxm -> win 7 x64 and if i download the verification tool there it gives me the same error. I think I tried to download the beta drivers there and it didnt go well.

    Are those drivers compatible with r3 hd6990m? Somewhere i read they are not because they dont support the switchable graphics option which would explain the error. If that is so, where can I get the compatible ones?

    thanks for your reply!
     
  11. Voronmetro

    Voronmetro Notebook Enthusiast

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    try to find driver for hardware ID