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    If you have a 6990m, stick with Clevo Drivers for now!!!!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by terminus123, Aug 25, 2011.

  1. terminus123

    terminus123 Notebook Deity

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    For those of you who don't know, the AMD 6990m performance becomes highly hindered if you install the Catalyst 11.8 Driver from online. For example there have been people getting around 250 fps in CS Source with Clevo Drivers, but with Catalyst 11.8 Drivers the FPS goes to around 50. Furthermore under 11.8, the 6990m is known as the 6900m, while with Clevo drivers it's the 6990m. So for now...stick with the Clevo Driver.

    Also if you're doing any benchmarks--please make sure it's the Clevo Driver.

    Just a heads up.

    EDIT: see graph in this thread, notice the Clevo Driver performs far better than even the 11.8: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/602585-malibal-6990m-stock-ready-ship-15.html
     
    terminus123, Aug 25, 2011
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    dabooosh Notebook Consultant

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    How about providing a link to the Clevo drivers for the folks who don't know where to find them.

    This thread is useless without a link.
     
    dabooosh, Aug 25, 2011
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    Tirenz Notebook Evangelist

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    It´s normal that in GPU-Z and others applications the card is shown as "6900m series". Nothing to worry about. Had 6970m´s and it was the same thing. In the clevo drivers they put just some kind of string so that it appeared as the "6970m" or now as "6990m". The drivers from AMD worked fine and did improve things.
    I don´t know about the other problem, maybe something went wrong while driver sweeping.
     
    Tirenz, Aug 25, 2011
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    terminus123 Notebook Deity

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    It's on the Sager/Clevo CD that comes with your notebook if you get the 6990m. Hopefully the 11.9 Catalyst Drivers next month will resolve the issues.

    Some people have reported that even after uninstalling the Catalyst driver, and then installing the Clevo drivers back--the FPS drop still persists.

    btw, anyone know where the thread about "best drivers for 6990m" is? I can't find it anywhere! it has a lot more info on this matter.
     
    terminus123, Aug 26, 2011
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    tunerX Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is this still a valid problem?
     
    tunerX, Sep 27, 2011
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    camar0rs Notebook Guru

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    i am also wondering if the clevo driver is still recommended
     
    camar0rs, Sep 27, 2011
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    Currently upgraded to 8.890.0.0 drivers and I've haven't seen much of a difference in 3d vantage/11 score.
     
    llynx, Sep 27, 2011
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  9. Larry@LPC-Digital

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    Larry@LPC-Digital, Sep 27, 2011
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