7970m driver info

[marhask]

Is there some new info regarding drivers for this card??? As I'm a owner of this card in vortex 3 for almost 4 months now and no support yet, and basically some games are unplayable. I saw the "sticky" thread about drivers but that is way back from jun. The problem actually isn't not clocking to 3d clocks but some kind of weird enduro energy saving , that causes the card not to by fully utilize in some games and situations.
I made a whole log about games running not right with videos, and pictures, an also many others did- so you can check more detailed about the problem here
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sage...-please-2.html

So PC specialist, is there some new updates, or news about the drivers?? will we see some fix in the near future or if possible should I also (like many others) change my card to gtx 680m ???

[rickne]

Still? Blimey ATI had better pull there finger out. I thought the 12.8 mobility drivers covered all mobility cards. Not one specific.

[marhask]

Still? Blimey ATI had better pull there finger out. I thought the 12.8 mobility drivers covered all mobility cards. Not one specific.

Jop 12.8 didn't fix anything, actually that driver isn't even compatible with the 7970m in clevo couse it doesant inslude intel drivers. I heard that they are avare of the the issue, but I want some kind of eta or update as it is 4 months htat I own this laptop and I still cannot use it properly.

[rickne]

It's amazing its allowed to be sold in that state.

[M3zxu]

well, it took Nvidia 1.5 years to sort out optimus and it's still not totally without problems

[marhask]

well, it took Nvidia 1.5 years to sort out optimus and it's still not totally without problems

Yes but altought they had issues, the nvidia cards with optimus were still ussable and could play games with the level of performance the should.The situation around 7970m is just so frustrating, cant play bf3 multi, couse of enduro crippling, so I just bought sleeping dogs and the game performe the same- the lower your settings are the lower your utilization is and fps remains the same.

[HurdyGurdy]

Yes but altought they had issues, the nvidia cards with optimus were still ussable and could play games with the level of performance the should.The situation around 7970m is just so frustrating, cant play bf3 multi, couse of enduro crippling, so I just bought sleeping dogs and the game performe the same- the lower your settings are the lower your utilization is and fps remains the same.

I am with you on this one and this seems to be developing in to a bit of a farce for AMD/Clevo. The good thing is that the issue is gathering recognition which at least may put pressure on all parties involved to get this sorted.

I do share disappointment in that I asked question before ordering my vortex 3 if the 7970m was good or whether to wait and got reassured it was the best to buy! Now i am sitting with an expensive lemon that is easily beaten by my old 5870 in the desktop from 3 years ago. It seems just strange that in June this was the dogs proverbial and no one knew there were issues bar some missing driver support.
The whole idea of it being ok to sell these products without formal driver support from AMD at that time just feels wrong. I know 680GTX was released in similar circumstances so I guess that is what it takes these days to get a decent gaming laptop but then at least manufactures should own up to the issues.

Wondering if PCSPECIALIST is going to offer an upgrade service so at least we can enjoy our laptops for what they were intended to do i.e. gaming?

[marhask]

Yeah the performance is relly poor, even my old laptop 5870m was performing better at some poin!!!

As I own the 150em with 7970m for 3 moths now, I probably dont have the nerves to last with this card anymore as there is no info, if a fix is comming, and try to do everything possible to swith to 680m.

So pcspecialist , can I ask, is there a possibility to swamp the gpu for a gtx680m?? offcourse for the upgrade cost-I think 150 pounds.
But I cannot affort to be without a laptop, so is there a possibility to ship a gtx680m with a return post box so I can send back the 7970m? I can do the swamp myself with no problem.
I heard that some other comapanies offered this sort of swamp.

thaks

best regards

[SkinnyBadger]

ive just ordered my laptop with the 7970m driver. Do you guys recommend me ammending my order (its currently in pre-production stage) to the 680m?

[marhask]

ive just ordered my laptop with the 7970m driver. Do you guys recommend me ammending my order (its currently in pre-production stage) to the 680m?

Deffinitelly, this is the worst time to order a 7970m as amd's catalyst creator stated that they are ivestigating the issue, but nobody know if a fix for enduro will come or not. If you have the extra cash go with the 680m - it works great out of the box and runs a bit coolers. The main diffrence is that it works normally where the 7970m doesn't and for enthusiasm gamers its basicly unusable and for casual gamers annoyng.