*The Offical MSI GX60 Owners Lounge*

A fresh install with only drivers installed has yielded a result the same as yours. I've ran it times and got the following scores

4654
4653
Restarted here and my scores were then
4665
4634

These scores were based upon the 13.2 beta 3 driver.

God knows what the problem was previously.

 

Awesome glad you solved your problem, btw can you control your brightness?

 

I still cant control the brightness. Maybe gonna try a clean install

 

Yaa my brightness control never worked after 12.10

I really don't know the selective few with win 8 got it to work.

 

Did the ones who have it work install the latest set over the official MSI ones?

 

in my case, this is exactly what i did:
1.unboxing
2.downloaded amd driver recognision tool from amd's website
3.tool downloaded amd catalyst 13.1 and automatically installed it

So i think this case is positive, I installed over msi originals. Brightness adjustment works fine. I just got an error when updating hdmi audio drivers. No problems related so far anyway, i think bacause of this over msi bundled install. Windows 8, by the way.

hope i helped.

 

can you run 3dmark11 for me please? I wonder if the 13.1 really did applied over the12.10, if it did that'll be great news for me! XD

On the other hand...that guy with user name "phantom" he said he always wipe the driver clean first, then apply new driver, and it worked every time for him.....wiping drivers was suggested by many others as well.

Some people even run into problem by NOT uninstalling old drivers first... =\ This is just not cool.. But I'm going to do an install over the stock and see how it goes.

I don't have my driver disk with me, but I would assume the one on the MSI website is the stock right? unless they updated... = =


Update: alright.. so I just wanted to test if the auto detect works at all, I downloaded via http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx

when I run it, it shows up on my task manager using 25% CPU, and that's it... it doesn't do anything... As I recall, not too long ago I was indeed using the auto detect tool to install the driver. Weird how it won't work anymore...I tried running in compatibility too (xp sp3) =\ I'll try install over the stock manually via downloaded drivers.

 

There is a beta 3 of the 13.2 drivers now by the way.

 

yep downloaded, but never tried it yet lol, I remember someone on 3dguru was saying that the 13.2 beta does not contain chipset drivers (?)

is that true?

 

Should not be ok if you are installing over an old set.

 

NO LUCK!

I did a complete wipe on my graphic driver, and installed the stock driver.

The stock driver worked as intended, brightness control and all that good stuff.

then I installed 13.2 beta OVER my existing driver, restarted computer, then BAM! brightness control GONE!

>.<!!! I don't even know WHO I can contact with this issue....... called MSI already, they told me is not their problem, AMD is not gonna do jack for me.... specially there are cases of other people DO NOT have this issue....

 

13.2 beta 4
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD_Catalyst_13.2_Beta4.exe

 

Nope although i went straight to the 13.2 beta 3 so no base msi driver to go off.

To be honest though it doesn't fuss me. I like it bright all the time.

Doesn't look lke beta 4 has much improvement for other games...

Guru 3D says.... "Improves performance in the Crysis 3 Multi-Player Beta by up to 50% when 4x and 8x MSAA are enabled."

 

I can confirm that 13.2 beta 3 does not include chipset drivers. I can confirm this as i installed this fresh onto windows 8 and the USB 3.0 drivers are all Microsoft drivers

 

i got same issue when using autodetect, but mananeged to solve it in a very primitive way: launch the .exe, nothing will appear, press power button once so the laptop goes to sleep, switch it on again, the .exe shows on desktop working. In fact, the first time i got on screen as many windows as attemps i made trying to open that fricking program.

3dmark about, I'm not quite confident with benchmarks, these almost put me far from buying this awesone piece of hard, but i m sure performance improved when comparing to stocks. Netbookreview testing on Deus ex shows mid-low fps when playing with everything maxed up. Dont need to tell you this is not my case, AAs x16 everything high, smooth as hell, plus amd vision engine shows Im using 13.1, and this software deals with both integrated and dedicated management.

hope it helped, ill try that benchmark anyway...

 

Hi Guys, I am having not much fun installing the drivers in a fresh win 7 pro install. Could use some helpful comments.

Super annoying issue 1 - installing the 13.1 64 bit cc whql drivers, I get AMD driver not functioning properly. That is on the 7660 the 7970 is not found and is stuck on the SVGA driver. I have reinstalled a few times and as of yet, have not figured this out.

The web cam is not listed under device manage in win 7 (do have unidentified device) nor in the stock win 8.

 

press fn+f6 to get the cam active. Yesterday I got quite annoyed because I could not find the cam working either plugged in. I felt as an idiot when realized that button exists.

my best lucky wishes with the other super issue

 

Thank you!!! That worked great for the web cam!! I worked for a couple of hours trying to figure why it was not working

 

Only way this Brightness Control issue is going to get fixed is if everybody experiencing the issue, reports it here: AMD Issue Reporting Form for AMD Catalyst
BTW the latest beta4 still doesn't fix it under Windows 8 x64 for me either.

 

Figured out my driver issue finally! The initial AMD 13.1 download I did was not the mobility version.

 

glad you figured it out, but what weird is that I installed the non-mobility one before, but never had problems tho..

 

Just bought far cry 3 to give some first person shooters a go, only played sims and RPG's so far.

Got most setting on high or very high, so we'll see how she does

 

Yup, everything s almost maxed out. I am very pleased with this machine atm. :thumbsup:

Does any1 know how MSIs sales figures looks like with the GX60, is it a success..?

 

I consider it to be a bold move by MSi and I consider it to be a success.

If new generation of APU's will fit into the GX60, then this notebook will become even more .

 

Atheros WiFi/Bluetooth driver version 10.0.0.222 W7/W8 32/64bit

Atheros & Zidas drivers

 

These drivers don't give a BSOD with plugged LAN cable on GX60?

 

Who is going to thrash their system with the new 3D mark system test..

3DMark cross-platform benchmark for Windows, Windows RT, Android and iOS

 

Anandtech already made some nice comparition.

3DMark for Windows Launches; We Test It with Various Laptops

 

Just ran it on my system and got pretty much the same results as then.Was about 100 or so points higher than theirs in most overall tests

Link to my results.. AMD Radeon HD 7660G video card benchmark result - AMD A10-4600M,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16FK

 

Catalyst 13.2 beta 5

AMD Catalyst

 

New to the forums and I've finally finished reading this thread, Woot!.

I have been seriously considering this laptop and the Lenovo Y500 i5/dual 650m sli at $900. Now it looks like Gentech has a sale starting today for the GX60 with a $100 instant rebate. $1100 for this thing is almost too good to pass up as I could use that free $100 for either Win 7 or towards an upgraded wifi or SSD, If I you guys had to choose where would you put that extra $100 towards?

 

SSD of course

 

A question, so I am customizing the GX60 on Gentech and I really want the SSD and want the OS to boot from it. I was thinking of getting the 128gb crucial m4 c400.

Now if I keep the 750GB HD which is standard as the primary drive and add the SSD as a secondary drive will they put the OS on the SSD? or do I have to make the SSD the primary drive and add back the 750GB HD as the secondary drive?

The 2nd scenario is $75 more expensive for the same combination of equipment which seems kind of sketchy to me.

 

I tested GTA IV with forced turbo and 13.1 WHQL drivers.

Runs like crap on high settings. Terrible port backed by a weak CPU makes this sandbox game nearly unplayable.

 

If you have the option to customize everything I would remove the HDD and Ram and just buy it yourself the money can add up to another SSD allowing you to have a RAID of 1000/MBs

 

That is very unfortunate to hear =(

I just hope GTA 5 can run better, also if new APU comes out and supports the gx60

 

GTA IV is simply a bad port, Skyrim is also a sandbox, has a lot of things for the CPU to calculate and still runs much better than GTA IV.

 

Okay, I finally got mine, and Im still installing and figuring things out, but I'm having a couple issues:

1.-I can't seem to find/detect the 7970m video card, I havn't run any games or applications that made the switchblade though.
Another limitation of mine is this being my first time using windows 8 so I'm having twice a hard time detecting stuff.

2.-my startup takes longer than what most people claim over here

3.-for some reason some desktop icons look blurry, this may be a minnor issue but if anyone knows a fix

well if anyone has some info regarding these issues I would appreciate it, specially with the 1st one.

Cheers! thanks in advance

Edit: Im getting a 5.8 performance by windows 8, it seems to score both cards since it says desktop graphics 5.8 while gaming and performance graphics is 6.8, am I understanding this right?

Edit update: with the latest drivers both video scores increased to 7.1

 

Ad. 1 - try to set your GX60 to maximum perfromance in the CCC Catalyst drivers menu, it should fix the 7970m not being used by games issue.

Ad.3 - try to adjust the resolution and see witch is more suitable for you to have on the desktop.

As for the Windows perfromance test, don't get bothered with it, it's better to run 3Dmark11 or other benchmarks to see how well the notebook is doing.

 

Im afraid Im misunderstood, on system information I can't find the 7970m video card, I have only seen it mentioned on display adapers but on the CCC I havn't seen it, not even under the hardware information tab

and it will take 30 more minutes till I can finally test a game and see how everything runs

Edit: on steam or dxdiag it shows my onboard video card Im starting to worry I got a laptop without the 7970m like that other guy

I really hope Im missing or underlooking something in here

 

Are you saying it is not showing up in your device manager? like not even a question mark?

 

it's showing as a display adapter, but I don't see it on the AMD vision center, I hope Im overlooking something here

Edit: I am finally running my first game, dota 2, all maxed up it looks gorgeous but I still don't see the 7970m on the vision center, however I doubt this is being ran by the onboard video card

btw, wasn't there also some led indicators meaning for white and orange? just wondering

2nd Edit: just looked up and found the user's Meaker input on the LED, mine so far is always orange, it flashed white during driver update, but it's still always orange nonetheless.

 

I dont have one, but read this thread and have seen enduro, and not only have people said the HD7970 wont show up in applications, you choose in the enduro page which programs should use the 7970M, and some will by default anyway. Since you see it in the device manager obviously it is there.

So if you have the switchable graphics application setting menu in the vision center, then it knows you have the discrete graphics in addition to the integrated, and you select between high performance and power saving.

Even all of your 3dmark scores will show up as the HD7660G, with really high score from the HD7970M.

 

Very very simple test to see if its in there or not.

Does the light on your power button stay white or go orange?

White = 7660 and orange is both the 7660 and 7950.

Please note the CCC is a bit useless (in my opinion) at picking up what applications and games need the extra horse power.

The first job is to set your computer to high performance mode under the power options by using the battery icon near the clock in the bottom right hand corner.

The next thing to do is to click the CCC icon and then go the switchable graphics menu and then go to the configuration menu.

You should find a list of applications and games listed there. Some will say 'not assigned' next to them and some may already say 'high performance'. Any game that you want to use the full might of both GPU's should say high performance. If they don't you'll probably find they wont use it.

Fary Cry 3 for example as a modern game on my laptop with the latest drivers wasn't picked up so i had to manually set it to high performance.

Good Luck.

Phil

 

I appreciate your response, my led is always orange, I saw it flash to white when updating drivers, but it's always orange all the time, so Im a bit curious about this

 

*Brightness Issue Partially SOLVED*

So I begin today with a total investigation for a 'fix' *clears throat, for all those running Windows 8 x64 on their GX60 Laptops.
This was done in two parts.
Firstly, as I also appear to have a non-working recovery partion and a desire to upgrade to SSD (more on this later) and secondly, using Microsoft OFFICIAL software and new SSD replacement hardware.

*Note*:
There is still 1 remaning issue on new 13.1 driver install where the HDMI audio driver refuses to install properly.
It is important to note, I am running Windows 8 x64 Pro, not Windows 7 and I DO now have brightness control.

A complete new instalation of Windows 8 x64 is required so it is IMPORTANT to backup your drive first!!

Step 1
- Obtain a copy of the OFFICIAL Microsoft Windows 8 x64 DVD ISO image.
As my laptop did not come with any OEM Windows DVD and I was NOT able to download one from Microsoft (No key on bottom of Laptop or anywhere else), I needed to resort to less 'welcomed' methods to get my copy. If anyone has a problem with this, I have paid for my copy of Windows 8 Pro upgrade, Microsoft won't recognise a Upgrade Key that they supplied!! Magic Jelly Bean key finder application also does not provide a working OEM install key for download of image from their site.
So, now that we have finished with this part, I have a Official Windows 8 x64 DVD I made.

Step 2
- Backup HDD to somewhere other than the Laptop drive!!!
I use a program called Drive Snapshot (Can be found here - Drive Snapshot - Disk Image Backup for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/X64) which I have no problem in recommending. It has a trial perod if you want to check it out and will run on a LIVE running system. It is also very small, 2-3 MB only and can run from USB without install if desired. Good price too. I now own a copy.

Step 3 (This part is OPTIONAL)
- Taking great care, remove screws from bottom of laptop and replace HDD with SSD.
- Install a 2nd SDD in to 2nd SATA slot.

Step 4
- Install Windows 8 x64 from scratch deleting any older install off drive, format if needed to remove.
As I used an OFFICIAL DVD for this, Windows automatically found my keys from my BIOS and activated

Step 5
- Re-Install MSI drivers from included OEM CD provided, reboot as many times as required and check all is working. (Brightness control)

Step 6
- Go to AMD website and download their AMD Mobility check tool.
- Obtain the Mobilibty 13.1 driver for laptops. Don't get the Desktop one. (Can be found here: AMD Catalyst)

Step 7
- Install the 13.1 Updated Drivers over the top of the MSI ones you installed and then re-boot. (Your Brightness control should still be working at this point!) Hooray!
Ignore the Issue on install of 13.1, this is the HDMI Audio driver that is still a problem.

Step 8
- Go to MSI and the GX60 page, download the ORIGINAL AMD driver from their page.
- Choose CUSTOM when you run this as the Express settings may overwirite everything.
- Choose HDMI install ONLY. UN-TICK EVERYTHING ELSE.
- Re-boot. (HDMI Audio should now work again) yay!

Step 9
- Install any/all Windows updates.
I myself was able to use my Windows 8 x64 PRO update key here as the DVD image I used was an OFFICIAL image, just obtained a non-offial way.

Enjoy the updated enhancements.

This was a huge undertaking for myself however, my recovery partition doesn't work properly and I realy wanted to upgrade to SSD. I did also check this install from the Origional HDD drive and it works fine. Just ignore Step 3 and install on to the original install. You can always restore from the backup you should have made if everything goes badly.

I have also updated my BIOS to the latest RAID version from the MSI website. This is not needed however, I wanted to try out the RAID 0 Option. I have NOT figured this out yet, I am currently on AHCI mode and not RAID as I can't work out how to create the RAID 0 required out of the two SSD drives prior to the Windows 8 x64 install. In essence, I now have 2 SSD drives installed with 1 drive for the OS and the other drive with Page File and User acs off-loaded to it. (You can do this too with Hard-Links)
Works very well.

IF anyone knows how to make a RAID 0 with two drives so I can re-install, please let me know. There doesn't seem to be any BIOS RAID setup tool.

 

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation! Basically you did is:
1.Reinstall Windows 8
2.Get auto detect tool from AMD
3.Install 13.1

Now I have a question, AFTER you install Windows 8, there should NOT be any driver other than the one came with windows 8 correct? (which mean non of those 12.1, 12.11, etc.)

IF that is the case, shouldn't a clean uninstall all AMD drivers, then install 13.1 solve the problem?


I am truly thankful of your input, however I will not be reinstalling Win8... just lazy. and I believe there should be a way to solve the problem WITHOUT reinstalling.

I will try out the "refresh" option from windows 8.

 

Not quite.
You DO need to install the original MSI listed version of the driver on Windows 8 FIRST.
This sets up the drivers for the entire AMD chipset, SATA, APU, Enduro switching, USB etc.
If there is a way to not Include tha Display driver during this inital install, I don't know it however, the important thing is that you DO have to install the original MSI 12.x chipset/graphics drivers after installing Windows 8 PRIOR to updating to 13.1 from AMD.
You also have to re-install the HDMI Audio from the original MSI driver container AFTER upgrading because the 13.1 HDMI audio driver seems broken with this chipset.
You just have to be careful that you only re-install the HDMI part and not the rest of the chipset/APU stuff.

I totaly agree, you souldn't HAVE to re-install Windows! Heck, you shouldn't have to re-install anything. Obviously the MSI image has some sort of conflict somewhere.
The HDMI audio should also work on upgrading to 13.1 so there is more than one issue here, even after a fresh install of windows 8 x64.

By the way, you're welcome. Bloody frustrating is how i put it and I had had enough so I went all out. If you figure out how to make a RAID 0 for twin drives, please let me know. I'd like to try RAID 0 and there doesn't seem to be a way to do it. No option in BIOS to set it up after selecting RAID, there's no disk config tool.

 

I have tried that actually, I installed the stock driver(directly downloaded from MSI website), and it worked perfectly fine! with brightness control and all, but when I install 13.1 OVER the stock, brightness instantly stop working...... it's sooooooo weird! >.<

I'll give it a try again...

 

Was it a fresh Windows 8 x64 install?
I only ask because i tried everything before resorting to this.
I used various driver "cleaner" utilities, Catalyst removal etc. I even tried a refresh off the same Windows 8 x64 disc I created and am using right now typing to you.
The only way I got it to work was as above.
This took days and days of farting around trying to not have to re-install.
In the end, I bit the bullet and only because I wanted to go SSD anyway.
I'm not sure if this is worth noting at all however, my CPU usage under Windows 8 has also dropped quite significantly as well. My daily tasks barely make a ripple on the monitor where as before, i'd hit 10%
Perheaps that's also part of the newer 13.1 fixes or maybe my fresh install was done properly and loaded everything where it should be.