Should I install drivers for my 7970m from the Clevo website or straight from AMD?

Long story short I've been having some performance issues with SW:TOR over the last week or so and, while I'm 95% convinced it's the game acting up -- namely because I run other equally- or more-demanding games and they have no issues -- I'd like to cover my bases.

I updated two days ago to the latest driver in Clevo's website but I'm fairly sure that's neither 13.1 nor 13.2 (also, how the hell can I check that? From what I can gather, my driver says it's version 8.951, while I believe 13.x should be 9.x...), so my question is...

Should I update straight from AMD? And if so, what pitfalls should I be aware of?

Thanks!

 

Try the AMD ones. Don't expect spetacular performance improvements. Stability on the other hand, is reported to be better, and I concur.

 

I play SWTOR quite regularly and I'm on AMD 13.2 beta atm. The game runs pretty fine so I can suggest those. If the Clevo website's still got the 12.11 ones then I'd avoid them, the 13.1 / 13.2 are much more stable.
Also, don't forget to update your Intel drivers, just in case. ( Support for the 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics 4000/2500)

 

Anything I should be aware of when installing from AMD? Conflicts with Clevo drivers, specific packages I should get?...

 

For some god forsaken reason the auto-detect tool refuses to acknowledge that I have an ATI card. How can I install the AMD drivers on top of an existing Clevo driver? Do I have to uninstall the Clevo driver first?

 

Nothing that I can think of. As for my installation method I usually express uninstall all AMD software, restart, uninstall Intel drivers, and then install Intel drivers first, restart, install AMD. I would avoid using any driver remover tools with switchable graphics setups unless you know what you're doing because in my case they've screwed my system up and I had to use Windows Restore.

 

Don't use the auto-detect tool, it never works with Clevo switchable setups (in my experience at least). Download the driver from here AMD Catalyst

 

Most software that attempts to detect a video card on your system will report the Intel HD4000 . I suppose the same happens here, even if it is an AMD auto detect tool. Manually download the driver (I suggest 13.2 beta 3) and see for yourself mate

 

Thanks, that worked! Hopefully the game will run decently now

 

... and no, it didn't. As I suspected, it's not the graphics card. I installed the new drivers and the same problems persisted. I tried running it on the integrated graphics -- with effects turn down of course -- and the same crackling sound and general slowness persisted even with graphics turned all the way down.

SW:TOR has to be the buggiest game I've ever played.