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    planning to move to AMD 6990M this holiday season

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by acroedd, Nov 15, 2011.

  1. acroedd

    acroedd Notebook Evangelist

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    1 My question is has anyone upgraded the driver from the manufacturer drivers to the latest ones on the AMD drivers page? esp np 8170/satoris

    2 if yes is it working fluently or having issues?

    3 how has the periodic driver updates looking like for AMD? can we expect one every quarter?

    thank you
     
    acroedd, Nov 15, 2011
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    dante316 Notebook Consultant

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    You can expect an official update about every month. However, thats doesn't mean its acutally going to fix the problems your having. Also beta drivers can be released at any time to try to fix certain issues.
     
    dante316, Nov 15, 2011
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  3. acroedd

    acroedd Notebook Evangelist

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    my dear friend dante 316 , one quarter= 3 months, 4 updates every year. Nvidia verde release one/ month avg :)
     
    acroedd, Nov 15, 2011
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  4. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    the answers to all your questions are yes. And amd drivers are released monthly as dante have already put
     
    Karamazovmm, Nov 15, 2011
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    dio05 Notebook Guru

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    if its not broken... dun update it
     
    dio05, Nov 16, 2011
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    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    I would actually always recommend trying the newest stable releases. Oftentimes they bring performance tweaks and enhancements for the newest games that can typically bring up your FPS quite a lot. If you have problems, you can always roll back the driver changes.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Nov 16, 2011
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