Newer "Official" Asus 5870 mobility drivers - works on the G73

Let me say first off if this was posted somewhere else already and I missed it I apologize....

I came across a newer build of Catalyst drivers on Asus's website than the ones that came stock with the G73. The build number is 8.692.1.0 Not as brand new as the 10.4's, but newer than the stock drivers.

They installed on my G73 just fine. For what it's worth, the temps still can't be read with HW Monitor with these.

To download these go to Asus's website, and then the download section. Then in the dropdown menus, choose the following: Notebook - Drivers - VGA. When prompted, choose Win7 x64 as your OS. These drivers should be at the top of the list. Asus's release date on these says 2010/04/15.

I can't post a direct link to these because Asus's website design won't allow it.

 

I'd be interested to see if there are any performance improvements with these. The stock ones run cool and I have had no video issues with either of our G73's so I am not wanting to change unless there is a reason to.

 

Thanks! Will give them a shot and hope BC2 loads faster...

 

The 10.5 leaked ones have been working great for me. Fast load times in BC2 and slightly better frame rate in crysis then even the 10.4's I recommend those.

 

nevermind, found it.

 

10.6 has been working great for me

 

are those these? ATI Catalyst 10.5/10.6 Beta Build .... - The Raptor Pit

 

No, these are not the same ones that you linked to. The compile date on these are from January. I'm guessing these are a 10.2 or 10.3 variant. Most likely 10.2?

 

I also found this one ati8703_Win7Vista64.zip dated 2010/03/11 and a Beta 86931 from March 3rd. How do we know what to use?

Is it possible ASUS as made some slight change to the ATI reference standard for the hardware like the notebooks referenced in the release notes from ATI/AMD?

"The following notebooks are not supported in this release:

* Any notebook launched after this driver release.
* Switchable Graphics enabled notebooks using Intel chipsets.
* Toshiba notebooks (please check with your notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
* Sony VAIO notebooks (please check with your notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
* Panasonic notebooks (please check with your notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)"

If so, it would be nice if ATI/AMD would just include ASUS in the list with Toshiba, Sony & Panasonic.

Cheers,

 

I have been using the ones from strags.com - Currently ATI Mobility Radeon HD Depot

 

ROFL. No these are driver 8.74 which means these are the absolute newest latest drivers available right now.

 

"I have been using the ones from strags.com - Currently ATI Mobility Radeon HD Depot "

Yes those. There actually the 10.5's and not the 10.6's There is no leak of a 10.6 yet despite what some people are calling it.

 

What?!?!?!? Every release from AMD installs perfectly on Asus. You make no sense to me.

 

I think you misunderstood me.

The drivers you are talking about are the absolute latest, yes. The ones I started this thread about were compiled in January. Thus why I guessed 10.2 or 10.3 for the drivers I referred to.

 

With all the freezing and other issues people are having with the ATI drivers perhaps simply being able to install them isn't enough.

Cheers,

 

can anyone comment on the performance of these drivers or the 10.6 drivers? Do they result in GSOD and what not?

 

I tried these before with my first G73 as suggested by my ASUS tech support guy, but by that time my G73 was so unstable, any driver would GSOD (almost rock-solid on 9.12 though, only 1 time GSOD, probably due to game error). I'll try it with my replacement unit later tonight. I've put up a mirror in case anybody else wants to try and has a hard time finding it -> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QVK2RX7Q

 

I tired the newest drivers on the asus website. Is is just me or does this car not overclock worth a crap? The best i can get is 800/1050

 

I did try 800/1100 offhand and it worked fine with 3dvantage (scores around 9K) + heaven. I can probably push it further, but I don't want to be doing anything else until I can get a stable system (one without random GSOD's).

 

do these offer an improvement in loading times for BFBC2?

 

Nope. Stable on stock ASUS vbios, no GSOD's, but BFBC2 loading is still awful.

 

ok i just updated the drivers to 10.4 and so far it has been stable through 2 games of battlefield and load times are a lot better. hopefully it'll stay that way