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    Recommended Drivers?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by xsniperx7, Jul 12, 2011.

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    Hey guys, yesterday I noticed my screen would freeze every ten minutes or so making me do a force shut down. I hadn't updated my gpu drivers in a year or so, so I got the latest off of amd's site, 11.6....but now my screen randomly flashes while playing games...are there better drivers, such as 11.5 or 11.5a

    Oh, and I have an asus g73jh with a 5870 mobility radeon
     
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    And, right after I posted this...my screen froze again..and is currently lagging...:|
     
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    what video drivers are you currently on?
    Before you update driver I would ask you to get FPS (with fraps as usual if possible) in some of your game... I woud like to see your result with old drivers first and newer driver now...

    Anyway:

    have you updated the vBios?
    People right there usually suggest to go with the latest release, while I disagree, I personally saw a continus loss of frame rate with release after the 10.4 one...

    But again, it may be MY g73 that has some problem...
     
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    I had 10.5, then got 11.6 yesterday still had the problem, decided to go to 11.5a a minute ago..sorry

    and I updated the vBios when I got the laptop but I havent since then
     
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    ^^ You want to make sure you have that VBIOS. Otherwise go onto Chastity's:

    G73 Series Driver and Application Reference

    Update to the latest V0.93. Use the modded version is recommended.
     
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    ohh, just checked, don't have that version ill be sure to update
    side note, how do I change my forum signature?
     
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    Yup get that VBIOS updated and then reinstall the latest drivers after updating it and that will sort your problems.

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    Before I do anything stupid, I dl'ed the .rar for the vBios...but how do I flash it? Just run the exe?
     
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    I cant really advise you on that as I stay away from Flashing personally but I hear the safest way is to use a USB flash drive. The files you need to put on it are:

    You can also use the built in ASUS Winflash utility but this has a higher failure rate if something goes pear shaped. I bricked a laptop once and so I have a flash phobia.
     
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    Ok thanks, since i switched drivers to 11.5a i haven't had any problems, so im going to wait until tomorrow to see if this has fixed the problem for good...I'm not comfortable flashing either >:
     
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    Welp, I just GSODed...so guess im going to have to update:/
     
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    That is what the Vbios will fix some dont see that problem if you do you need to flash :)
     
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    Hey, so its been a couple of hours since i updated things, and since then i haven't had any GSODs or freezes...so yeah this definitely solves the problem
     
    xsniperx7, Jul 13, 2011
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    Good work :) glad you got it sorted!
     
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    do you see the same performance in games with the new drivers?
     
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