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    How can i tell if I can or should update my x1270 (integrated) drivers?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by slayerfaith1982, Oct 21, 2007.

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    slayerfaith1982 Notebook Evangelist

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    How can i tell if i can or should update my ATI x1270 integrated drivers? I hear doing that improves performance greatly. I know it's integrated and definately limited in it's capabilities, but how do you find out if this is an option, and if so, if it'd improve performance? I went to laptopvideo2go.com but didn't understand which drivers were for what, and if it even benefitted the ATI x1270.
     
    slayerfaith1982, Oct 21, 2007
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    You always should update your drivers. You know if you can by going into catalyst center and finding it out. You'll never have the most up to date drivers, so get to it.

    laptopvideo2go is for Nvidia, so go on ATI. Yes, drivers make a difference.
     
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    How do i check in catalyst if I need to update?
     
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    I dont know. Nope, not a clue. Hmm..... But i doubt, actually I know, gateway didn't put the most recent drivers... so I'd load them.
     
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    Okay i went on ATI's website and see where you can get the most recent drivers. Looking at them though, they only have the integrated models of: x1200 and x1250. I have x1270, so i shouldnt do either of those should i? Hmm but they dont have x1270 listed. Suggestions?
     
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    It doesnt matter, they're all the same. Id download the X1250 ones
     
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    The catalyst is updated every month and have the version with Y.M, so the newest version should be 8.10 or 8.9
     
    vshade, Oct 22, 2007
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    how can i tell what version of catalyst i have? what should i look for?
     
    slayerfaith1982, Oct 22, 2007
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    should be in the control panel :p
     
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    well i mean i know it SHOULD be but i dunno where to look in the control panel. like under what menu. I don't see anything specifically stating "version X" in the information sub-menus, and just curious what it'll be labled as
     
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    Im trying to do this aswell. Me and Slayer have the same laptop and I am struggling to get my laptop to run HL2 like everyone claims it should..
     
    MHDarilek, Oct 29, 2007
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    I downloaded the X1250 drivers. When I went to install them, the program said that the drivers were up to date on my computer (version 3.383.1.0). now what?

    I tried to Omega drivers, but since my laptop has Vista, it didnt work. And when I uninstalled them and restarted my computer, it wouldnt restart so it had to go back and restore from a previous point
     
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    The only driver update I can actually recommend that I used is going to gateway.com/support and look up the model number, and download and install their most recent video driver (released on 10/5/2007 according to the website). Maybe that helps (and more RAM)
     
    slayerfaith1982, Oct 29, 2007
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