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    Performance degradation with CCC 11.7

    Discussion in 'HP' started by BeaverRat, Aug 2, 2011.

  1. BeaverRat

    BeaverRat Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,
    I recently updated my CCC driver to 11.7 (The GPU driver is 8.850.6.0) and I noticed a slight performance loss compared to the previous driver configuration I had setup (stock HP drivers with 11.5b hotfix).

    Has anyone else experienced this same phenomenon? If so, is there a fix, or is there just a better CCC version I should get?

    Thanks
     
    BeaverRat, Aug 2, 2011
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    micman Notebook Evangelist

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    I didn't do any scientific method tests on this, but I noticed my idle temps were up from about 52c to 59c after the update. Going to try a different vBios to compensate.
     
    micman, Aug 2, 2011
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    micman Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok just updated to Chastity's vBios and here are my temps on idle now:

    [​IMG]
     
    micman, Aug 2, 2011
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    th3hate Notebook Guru

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    th3hate Notebook Guru

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    @micman, can you provide a link for Chastity's vBios?
     
    th3hate, Aug 2, 2011
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    I'm not 100% sure but I think that vBios is only for the 5800 series cards...plus the 11.8 preview you posted doesnt seem to be the mobility drivers.
     
    kurosawa79, Aug 2, 2011
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    Yeah it's specific to the 5870m on my G73JH. What card do you have?
     
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    I am guessing he has the 6770m since his join date would suggest he has the DVx-6x00 series
     
    con247, Aug 2, 2011
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    yes It's 6770m. I was hoping for a fix as temps get really high while gaming ~87c gpu and ~90c cpu.
     
    th3hate, Aug 3, 2011
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    Those are reasonable temps! You can safely get high 90's and still be in the safe zone for the cpu and gpu. The upper thermals are somewhere around 105C before the cpu will throttle by itself. If you have any questions about that, go looking for Unclewebb...he can explain that in much more technical detail...but you really don't have anything to worry about.
     
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    Well, I uninstalled 11.7 and reinstalled original HP drivers plus 11.5b hotfix, and I seem to get the best performance there. On 11.7 I was getting 40FPS on Starcraft 2, but there was a noticeable lag in the game (when you click on something, it wouldn't select immediately), and it was a bit choppy. As soon as I returned to 11.5b hotfix, frames went up to 45FPS, and there was no delay/choppy frames.

    Anyone have any other recommendations for updates to the AMD drivers? Does 11.6b hotfix seem to work well?
     
    BeaverRat, Aug 3, 2011
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