NP9150 and 7970m with minor driver issue

After waiting for almost a month, finally got my 9150 last Friday, very excited. Have been playing with it the whole weekend. Switched the stock 500g hard drive with a 512g Crucial M4 SSD, a clean installation of Win 7, and the real fun just began.

Tried 2 different versions of 7970m drivers (official 12.6 and 12.7 beta) but neither of them worked for me. Switching configuration in CCC to high performance wouldn't trigger 7970m in games, yet the 3DMark11 gave right score (~P5800), weird... There must be something wrong but it was beyond my capability to figure out. Finally gave in and flashed back to stock driver, of course after full uninstall and driver sweeper. Now 3DMark11 gave P5803 under stock clock and P6175 with 950/1350MHZ. In games like skyrim, still can't detect and show 7970m. Skyrim defaults to low quality and shows Intel Graphics HD4000. I had to manually change settings to ultra and in games it runs perfectly fine. Didn't have time to run tests for frame rate. But the difference between gaming performance on Intel HD4000 and 7970m is huge an can't be mistaken.

Overall, this is a very nice and powerful machine, good build quality too. The only flaw is the driver for 7970m, it needs a lot of patience... For now, I think I'm just gonna stay with the stock driver until there is solid evidence that a new driver can solve most of the problems. Happy gaming, guys!

 

Just so you know, the 12.6 and 12.7 beta drivers do not support switchable graphics. If you want to take advantage of some of the performance benefits, you can install the 12.7 beta drivers over the stock driver, but make sure that you go to into the custom installation and only install the display driver.

 

Thanks. That's probably why it didn't work for me so well. I'll give it a try later.