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    Drivers for 6970m

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by hello!, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. hello!

    hello! Notebook Guru

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    I'm on stock 11.1 driver from sager and I have never updated the driver. I have the Radeon HD 6970M GPU. I tried to download the driver for the mobility HD 6xxxM series from the AMD website. Download worked but once I tried to open it, it said that my computer has a incompatible hardware/software and it does not support it. Next sentence was something like my computer does not have a proper hardware. What the heck? I re-checked to make sure that I downloaded the correct driver but it wasn't for this case. Help me please. Thanks.

    The reason behind this because I'm getting only 7-10 fps on max settings on Dead Space 2. I changed to the lowest settings, same results with 7-10 fps. Figured out that it might be the driver. Battlefield runs at 70fps at max, mafia at 65 fps, civilization V with no slow-downs, and star craft II at 55 fps at max.
     
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    NovaH Company Representative

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    Sometimes, in order to install the reference drivers you need to uninstall the current one (including removing the installation software), run CCleaner, reboot, let windows install the generic driver, reboot again and only then install the new one. I know, it can be painful but that's how it is at times.
     
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