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    G73JH Driver Update Question?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by CaliHeat, Dec 29, 2010.

  1. CaliHeat

    CaliHeat Notebook Guru

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    Hello everyone, I am new to these forums and decided to join when I recently purchased the G73JH-BST7 from best buy. So far, everything works great...I have tested RE5, Dirt 2, Metro 2033, Crysis and Sniper Ghost Warrior and they seem to run very well on stock drivers (8.683.0.0). However, I would like to get a little performance boost especially in Crysis, so I can run it ABOVE 20 FPS on very high lol (right now average fps is about 20). I know about all the GSOD problems with the newer drivers, but I am hesitant to update the vbios myself. So my question is: are there any 10.xx+ Catalyst drivers that work stable with the stock vbios? My bios is the 211 version and the vbios is 012.017.000.004.0359.A33G.
     
    CaliHeat, Dec 29, 2010
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  2. cuban11182

    cuban11182 Notebook Evangelist

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    The VBIOS Update is for anything above the stock drivers. There are none that I know of that won't GSOD. This isn't to say that you can't luck out and have 10.12 and no GSOD's. My suggestion is that you take your time and update the VBIOS, it isn't difficult to do. I would say read it a couple of times and then attempt it. If you have any questions come back here and ask.
     
    cuban11182, Dec 30, 2010
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  3. Ruckus

    Ruckus Notebook Deity

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  4. kanagye

    kanagye Notebook Geek

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    I run 10.12 on stock vbios. Ive maybe crashed twice in a month but cant say it was a video driver problem.
     
    kanagye, Dec 30, 2010
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    <MarkS> Notebook Village Idiot

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    I had similar results with that configuration. With the vBIOS "fix", I have zero crashes in any months, which to me is the only acceptable result :)

    :D
     
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    Chastity Company Representative

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    Open up the bottom panel, and read off your part number on the GPU. It ends in C0x or C1x, where x = any number. I bet yours is a C0x. Have you owned it for awhile?
     
    Chastity, Dec 31, 2010
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