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    FW Mobility Radeon 4650 Driver Updates?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by HydroGuy, Aug 4, 2009.

  1. HydroGuy

    HydroGuy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just got my new FW CTO in the mail today and am loving it. I've spent some time downloading Windows Updates (I ordered Vista Business 64 with Fresh Start) and have been attempting to see if there are updated drivers for the HD 4650 1GB card that I have.

    The version I have right now is: 8.583.2-090302a-076759C-Sony


    Using Catalyst's "Update Driver" link (essentially a link to AMD's website) I was surprised to not see ANY Mobility HD 3000 or 4000 series drivers at all. Are there newer drivers than the ones that shipped with my laptop? If so, where can I download them?

    Also, is it really very important to partition your drives?

    Lastly, any chance that ArmaII will run on this?

    Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53GHz
    4 GB RAM
    HD4650 1 GB (with GDDR3 according to GPUZ)
    320GB 7200 RPM
     
    HydroGuy, Aug 4, 2009
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    MidtownHD Notebook Consultant

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  3. HydroGuy

    HydroGuy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nope, thats the one that shipped with the FW. I don't see them on Sony's website, but I think there are newer versions like 9.6 or 9.7 that are out there, I just don't know where to find them or how to install them.... any help?
     
    HydroGuy, Aug 5, 2009
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    qhn Notebook User

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    I would recommend against updating any drivers that are not coming over your Sony or Windows updates.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Aug 6, 2009
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    Incomplete Page has nothing but OS selections?

    There is a update for the Card, corrects bad playback
    and says nothing about Drivers, I just installed It and will
    check out the results on my HD TV, I noticed this Problem
    with the Orig setup.

    OTE=hotfusion;5173171] http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx[/QUOTE]
     
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    I also Agree on this
     
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