G73JH - New Synaptic Drivers from ASUS

Hi all,

Asus has released new Synaptic drivers for our G73. The detailed information from the website is the following:

update 2010/06/28
Version V14.0.10.0
Description
File Size 31.6 (MBytes)

as always asus provide no information at all.

Happy update to all.

 

really. I'll check it out right now.

 

I receive the G73 drivers update from Asus via RSS feed

 

Drivers | Synaptics

14.0.3 >.>

and 14.51 MB, wonder what the difference is?

 

this is quite important

 

No, it's really not. Virtually all driver installs scan for your hardware and proper operating system, and error out if that criteria isn't met. Especially in these days of unified driver architecture, finding a driver that lists your series of hardware yet causes catastrophic failure when installed is an extreme rarity [barring normal issues like previous drivers not fully uninstalled, etc]

Also, *typically*, drivers offered by OEMs are feature stripped generations old versions of the latest drivers available from the hardware manufacturer.

Maybe it's just me, but I tend to trust drivers put out by the people who actually BUILD the hardware components. They know it, they build it, they support it. OEMs. . . they just put pieces together in an assembly line somewhere.


Naturally, this is my opinion and others may not share it. I've been following this same pattern for over 10 years on family and client PCs, and have yet to have an issue resulting from using manufacturer drivers over OEM [doubly true for OEMs who no longer support or even HOST drivers for old equipment]

[BTW, the 14.0.3 drivers work beautifully ]

 

I'm not sure what the drivers have changed, but it does feel better. It could of been me adjusting my pad settings as well but the touch pad is no longer moving on its own when I'm trying to type.

 

Works much better now....

 

Whats a touch pad?

I have some multi touch drivers installed on mine, though I never got it to work right the pad still functions like normal so I didnt change it.

For the issue where it activates while typing, I just use touch freeze, or have it turn off when a mouse is detected.

 

That works out so well for the ATI/GSOD problems on anything other than asus drivers ...

I've been using synaptic drivers, and they're fine. Maybe asus drivers are good too? *shrugs*

 

Perhaps this will address the keyboard issues many of us have been having when the Touchpad is enabled in the bios... Will report back.

 

I installed this update, and it didn't break anything, but I didn't notice any major improvements either. Why don't we have the multitouch features enabled in the driver anyway?

 

I dug around a bit and I was able to find the updated changes in this driver release:

*Installed a Placebo Effect
*Changed version number to a higher number
*Put a more recent date on driver

 

this is a leap forward in how asus communicate with theirs costumers


BTW, when you people install the drivers, in the install/uninstall list on win7 in the Control Panel... what version appears for Synaptic drivers??

Because this new version is version v14.0.10.0, someone post a driver from synaptic website v14.0.3 and I installed and currently using a driver grabbed some time ago (which allow multitouch gestures in non-multitouch pads) from another website for my old asus laptop which version is 15.x.x

 

Has anyone tested to see if it enables and disables correctly with Fcn+F9?

 

With or without the update, that worked all along.

 

OK, so it sounded pretty good, so I installed the latest Synaptic driver. I am typing this post just as fast as I can, and I have not been able to drop a letter so far! I noticed once, a letter seemed to lag just a bit, but it was still there. I am pretty sure this driver is an improvement for whatever reason, and I plan on leaving it installed.

I'm just glad the Fnc F9 still works ok, so I can disable the touchpad while I'm typing. But this far better than having it disabled in BIOS!

I hope Asus keeps these driver updates coming!

 

I'm not convinced this is a driver only issue. if it was, I'd be having issues with my G73 [as I'm currently running 10.6] and I haven't had so much as a hiccup.

the only thing I can think of is that attempting to activate some features of the 5870 is causing a vbios/internal software conflict? maybe a batch of cards not programmed 100% right or that have "within tolerance" memory flaws?

/shrug I could theorize all day