Just bought a vaio FW, need to install newest GPU drivers, need help please!

Ok so I just bought a new sony vaio laptop. I wanted to install the newest 9.4 ATI drivers for the gpu. So heres what happened:

- Downloaded newest drivers from ati official site
- Went to the uninstall programs section in control panel, closes thing I could find to ati drivers was "Ati catalyst install manager", so i uninstalled it and it uninstalled ati drivers within the process.
- Then restarted the laptop
- Then installed newest drivers with the catalyst control center.
- Restarted laptop
- After the restart the highest available resolution was 1400x1050, I couldn't find the ati control centre and can find no evidence of the laptop even recognizing the ATI GPU after the restart.

I've gone through this sequence twice now and each time the drivers haven't been updated properly and the same thing has happened.

I've restored the system so now I have the 8.4 drivers on my gpu but I really can't figure out how to update them, PLEASE HELP!


Sony vaio
-2.66GHz core 2 duo
-Ati HD 3650 512mb GDDR3
-4GB DDR2RAM
-Vista 64-bit
-320GB HDD
-1920x1080 Full HD display

 

i think you need to download the driver from sony's website, it must be the one for your notebook make/model/type. if your notebook has a sony update manager software, use that.

different notebook, even if it has some card name (gpu) it most probably has different settings (eg. clock speed, memmory), and the packaging is a bit different. so that is why it is necessary to download your notebook's driver directly from the manufacturer.

if you download from ati, it is most probably for the desktop.

on a side note, not long ago, nvidia just created unified notebook drivers, so if you have notebook from nvidia, you can get your driver directly from nvidia notebook gpu driver. my guess is, ATI will follow soon... enough. if not, they really should.

 

There was no need to make a new thread when you already asked in the FW one.

Anyways, didn't you get any error during the installation? Since Mobility Modder doesn't work with newer drivers. The newest version that will properly work is 9.1.

 

Sorry but I just wanted as many responses as possible because not many people seem to know whats going on. Also I thought that wobble987 said I couldn't download from the Ati site so how would update 9.1 work?

 

I don't understand why you must install the latest drivers?
If the ones you have work, as mine do, why change them for no reason and cause yourself all these problems?

 

Because newer drivers mean better overall system graphics performance and stability, if you've been using the same drivers for a while now I suggest you think about upgrading as I'm sure you'll see a difference.

 

Not always true. I compared the stock graphics driver with a modded one and using a Trackmania Nations benchmark, overall performance actually decreased by 1 FPS.