7970m Drivers and Clevo, which ones are working for you?

Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying though.

There's no valuable addition to a discussion about metrics when someone comes and says "It's running smooth". It makes me want to crunch metal with my fist. It's also even more frustrating when they bring that kind of input to a discussion just to be contrary.

If I came on here and said that, say, an older and established high end desktop GPU wasn't running "as good as I want". That'd be a ridiculous complaint, since it's so subjective.

If I have the GTX 570 for example, and someone says "I'm getting X fps in Y game" and I reply with "It's good for me"...what did I add to the discussion? Sound and fury, that's all. But If I come back here and say "In Z settings, I'm getting X fps" then I added something valuable. Now the person knows that with a similar hardware build, someone else is getting higher numerical / measured performance and that something's wrong.

Speaking of standards, I'm not looking for 100+ fps. What I want is what the human eye can process on a basic level: 60 fps. Most people, even the tech savvy enthusiasts, won't notice a significant improvement on anything past 60 fps. That's the "sweet spot" where your eye begins to notice stuttering. Unless you're a hawk, or Skynet... Obviously it's great to see your machine running 140 fps in a game, we're all geeks here and we love those big numbers. You'll never see someone come on and complain that they dropped from 140 to 110 fps....because they'd never know unless they're measuring it. A drop from 60 to 30 however....

 

I spent at least 30 hours in the past week trying to fix this; so it's not an issue of me not trying. I tried everything, contacted many people for actual help on the forum. Contacted tech support of Eurocom. I exhausted all of my options.

I'm going to RMA, let's all just try and get along. I am not a "Fanboy" of either; but I have had a few nVidia cards in the past and none of them had issues; yet this first AMD card I buy [due to the price performance ratio being so much better] has a lot of issues [as in it is completely not working].

Both companies have made great cards, this round though I think most people will agree is probably going to the 680m, at least from a stability stand point. Most people would consider the extra $200 or so worth it, but some don't.

 

read your story and quite unfortunate with it but you don't need to keep repeating here. what's done already done and RMA is the only last choice.

just take it as you are one of the unlucky and suck it up.

also, no one can guarantee that gtx680m will work like a charm too.wait until someone get it then we can finalize it

 

If I want to install the latest official beta driver 12.7 for 7970m what should I install? Since it's a desktop driver there must be something I should untick when I install the "custom" way.
Thx in advance.

 

i think you install everything but the CCC over stock drivers if your on a clevo machine though i havent done it myself

 

I had nothing but trouble with the 12.7 beta drivers. The 12.6 were easy to i stall (over top of the Clevo 12.5's). I went from P5850 to P5950. So I would go for the 12.6's

 

If I am able to play BF3 at max settings without problems so I don't care what fps I have
30 or 100
I just want smoth playing game because my eye can't see difference betwen 30 vs 100 fps
yes,we all want as high possible but come on
if it's below 30 than it's a different story

 

have u gotten your machine with 7970m yet? mine comes tomorrow...

 

it was shipped yesterday
i bought used 170em 7970 from unhappy owner
i just give it a try

 

well good luck to us both

 

How can i check the version of the drivers i have installed?

 

This works for me with multiple OFFICIAL drivers from AMD.

What you need:
1. Your choice of official drivers. I used the the official 12.7 beta from AMD site, not Guru3D mirror. Just because.
2. 7970M drivers from Sager/Clevo.

Uninstall your drivers:
- Personally I just use the express uninstall all for Catalyst.
- Then I go into device manager and manually uninstall the Intel driver first, check the delete driver option and then uninstall the 7970M.

Install official driver:
1. Just install official drivers normally. Throw in whatever APP you prefer, I like Hydravision. Throw that in there. Install however you do it, I do custom without all that AVIVO/Transcoding crud since x264 kicks GPGPU encoding any day.
2. Don't restart after CCC setup is finished.
3. Go to Device Manager. You will see the HD7970M with exclamation point on it. Leave it. Click properties and update drivers on what should be your HD4000.
4. Browse to where you unzipped the HD7970M Clevo driver and choose the INF from the driver folder, should be something like Packages/Drivers/Display/W76A_INF/C7***.inf
5. Choose that INF, the HD4000 signed driver should show up in the dialogue box and install.
6. Restart.

Voila, done. I've tried this method with other drivers.

 

device manager / display driver / properties / driver tab

 

Thanks!
So 8.951.6.0 would be the official Sager drivers?

 

I have followed your steps but when I update 7970M with Inf driver , computer restarts and amd catalyst disappear and only intel graphics shows up in right click. However, in device manager both vga are identified and no problem, do you have the same issue?

 

You're supposed to just install the official CCC like normal and only update what is left, should be HD4000 by the device manager.

 

No didnt work here is what i did:

1. unistall official clevo driver dont restart
2. go to device manager unistall vga for both of them with software delete checked mark
3. restart laptop, install 12.7 driver
4. without restarting , go to device manger update amd7970 with C7**8., laptop restarts
5. amd catalyst disappear?????, only intel graphics software shows up and both vga have no problem in device manager ???

 

Err no. You don't update the 7970M... You update the other one, which should be the HD4000. You want latest official drivers from AMD to be installed for the 7970M.

 

So I've been running the new amd 12.7 Beta and everything has been running smooth.... that is until today. I've installed Minecraft and now every 30 minutes or so the screen goes black, the card recovers from a failure, and then comes back. I then have to restart Minecraft for it to work. Lastly... now videos on youtube and such are coming up with just a green screen but I can hear them.

 

You guys need to fill out the form @ AMD driver page and describe the problems. AMD have a whole truckload of patching in front of them to clean up all of this mess

 

For me the only problem is enduro. I just want a driver that gives the option to disable enduro and use the 7970 all the time. I bought a laptop because I need to take it between my parents houses. But, i think with that option it would be 100% better. Manual is almost always better than automatic.