AMD driver install problems 7970m :(

Well after seeing how bad the stock drivers that came with my NP9150 were, I decided to upgrade to the 12.7 beta drivers. I proceeded to uninstall every display driver, the amd driver and the basic vga drivers via device manager and control panel. Booted into safe mod, ran driver sweeper and uninstalled all amd driver remnants. Restarted windows and installed 12.7 beta drivers and restarted again. Aero fails to work and this error message pops up "The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version of your enabled graphics adapter. Please update your amd graphics driver or enable your amd adapter using the display manager." I have tried reinstalling these drivers and even the catalyst 12.6 whql drivers all from AMD's website, only to fail in the same manner with that error message, and the driver always fails to work.

What is going on? Only the stock drivers from the Sager CD install fine? Does this mean I won't even be able to install the drivers that eventually are released to fix the 7970m performance issues (low gpu utilization) and enduro issues?

 

What worked for me was installing the AMD drivers from the disc supplied, then install the 12.7 drivers on top.

 

Yeah, you install the disc drivers, then only install the display adapter for 12.7 beta.

Either way, we have to wait for Clevo's modded AMD drivers in order to ensure that they are stable.

 

I installed the 12.7 beta over stock using express so that CCC was also updated. The custom install method and choosing just the display drivers also works but keeps your old CCC.

 

Thanks for the tips guys! I will try again to install the newer drivers. That is once these thunderstorms end, I have no surge protector for my laptop yet :O Edit: Just installed while only on battery and it works finally thank you so much guys. When the storm ends maybe I can see how the performance is in games now.

 

Did you guys restart between driver installs?

Eg: Install Disc drivers > Restart > Express 12.7?

Or just do it all before restarting?

 

Had terrible results with installing all of the betas forwards, backwards, and sideways. Eventually just wiped the hard drive and reloaded windows with stock drivers. These betas are just that. They are unstable and the results are spotty. Skyrim became unplayable on them for me because of a frame rate drop to 0 about every thirty seconds.

 

I would recommend restarting everytime the driver installation asks you to do so, otherwise it can cause problems and may crash your laptop.