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    m17x r3 6970m driver update - screen brightness adj

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Le0-, Jul 26, 2013.

  1. Le0-

    Le0- Notebook Evangelist

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    Howdy fellas.

    For the last 3 days I cannot get a sleep while battling my R3 over who should control the screen brightness between the two of us. So far my laptop thinks it aint me for sure.

    After I tried to update from 12.10 WHQL to either new Dell drivers (dated 2013) or AMD 13.4 or AMD 13.6 beta 2, I am losing the control over brightness.

    Another problem I realize I have is that the performance in games has significantly dropped down to level "unplayable lags". Numerous
    reinstalls, full wipes of driver software, reinstalling windows didn't help.

    Funny thing is that I cannot revert to 12.10 for the same performance issues problem.

    I also dived into local search here at NBR forums, google, nothing so far. I was hoping someone else with 6970 might have tried to install new drivers and could let me know how it went and what you did? I am really desperate as of now :confused:
     
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    bump!! still in need of help!
     
    Le0-, Jul 26, 2013
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    pp_ph Notebook Consultant

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    Do you use internal graphics often? if not, just disable it and it might solve your problem.
     
    pp_ph, Jul 26, 2013
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