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    Extremely noob question, G73JH VGA Drivers

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Nekki, May 26, 2010.

  1. Nekki

    Nekki Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi all,

    just received my new G73JH-A1. Works like a charm. I replace the HDD for a Intel SDD (x-25m) and reinstall everything necessary, avoiding all the bloatware. I'm using everything stock from the drivers DVD but the Realtek driver which I installed the last version from Realtek website plus the HDMI drivers for ATI (BTW, doing this make unnecessary creative software and all the bass configuration needed is in the Realtek control panel, including graphics equalizer). With this configuration I can run every game in 1080p at hightest configuration. But I would like to upgrade the stock ATI drivers to gain a little bit of performance in recently games. I'm using the stock drivers (9.12) and I would like to upgrade to 10.3 or 10.4. To do that, I uninstalled the stock and with Driver Sweeper program remove all the traces of old drivers in the system32 folder. But now I CAN NOT install new drivers. The ATI installer only install the extra software, but the drivers itself and the ccc is leaving out by the installer. This happen with both 10.3 and 10.4 ones from the ati website. I reinstall the stock and everything is normal, but still in stock.

    Any way to make clean install of the new drivers? Or I just need to install over the old ones (for my previous experience this is not recommended)

    BTW, the asus stock drivers have a 230 mb of size, the ati ones is only 74 mb, any significant difference?


    Thanks
     
    Nekki, May 26, 2010
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  2. aramis109

    aramis109 Notebook Deity

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    Sounds like you're actually only grabbing the CCC update and not the actual graphics driver.
     
    aramis109, May 26, 2010
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  3. Nekki

    Nekki Notebook Evangelist

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    nop, i grab the full suite software (x64), which includes the display drivers. I even try some beta driver circulating elsewhere.
     
    Nekki, May 26, 2010
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  4. Kalim

    Kalim Ceiling Cat Is Watching U

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    Maybe you'll have better luck with the 10.4 drivers then others who tried and ended up with a GSOD. Personally, I'd stick with the ASUS 9.12 or 10.1, but that me.
     
    Kalim, May 26, 2010
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  5. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    Nekki, the ATI Installer probably has a grey box for the driver. You can still check it to force an install.
     
    Chastity, May 26, 2010
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  6. Kalim

    Kalim Ceiling Cat Is Watching U

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    Didn't something like this happen earlier when that person downloaded the wrong 10.4 driver?
     
    Kalim, May 26, 2010
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  7. mikeyhd

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    mikeyhd, May 26, 2010
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  8. Chastity

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    \0/ something new to crash my computer!
     
    Chastity, May 26, 2010
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  9. mikeyhd

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    I have tried it for 2 hours, no GSOD yet. the 10.4 freeze pretty fast

    refresh the index without problem, but it's too early to tell!
     
    mikeyhd, May 26, 2010
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