Sager NP9150 weird gaming issues

Hi all,

I am hoping someone might know the answer or be able to point me in the right direction.

I have a NP9150 w/ 7970m GPU.

It's been a great machine so far.  I currently have Catalyst drivers 13.1 installed.  I have it set for max performance while plugged in.

Here's the oddity - in some games that look to specify the settings for a given GPU (Eve online, Deus EX Human Revolution, Fallout 3, etc. - so far any game that lists the GPU, this includes 3DMark 11 during run but not during results) they list the HD4000 in the GPU's but not the 7970m.  I configure the given game like I'm using the 7970m (high settings, etc.) and launch the game.  The graphics are definitely the level I select and according to FRAPS, I'm getting the framerates that would only occur via the use of the 7970m (Deus Ex HR @ 1920x1080 @ high settings vsync on would never run at 60fps on the HD4000).

So, it would appear that these settings windows are mostly cosmetic in terms of the GPU being configured, but it would make me feel better if it actually *showed* my GPU in the list.  

Has anyone else noticed this or know how to correct this?

I had to get them from AMD direct (of which I only found because someone else had the direct link to it at AMD in a blog I found as AMD's mobility driver finder tool doesn't work right on my model Sager).  Sager still has the radeon drivers from May of 2012 which are antique.  I had a similar problem with the official ones from Sager as well (only showing the HD4000 in one area, but when the app ran it actually ended up using the 7970m)

So far the only major issue I've had with what I assume is how games are able to identify the two cards has been in playing Eve Online where eve thinks it's using the HD4000 and when the game exits, my desktop is quite corrupted - but it's the only game that does that out of about 15 I've tried so far.

Normally, I'd agree with you, but this isn't the desktop version of the CCC driver pack but rather their mobility version of the driver - 13-1_mobility_vista_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql.exe - in all honesty, it really does work better then the driver from sager, and sager is even behind what clevo offers for drivers for this model...  I'd really prefer to use one from Sager if it was a newer version but theirs doesn't even have the some of the hot fixes. 

Quote:

Originally Posted by qhn 

The small print ...

***Important!***

Please note, that the AMD Catalyst Mobility driver package can only be installed on specific AMD Enduro platforms, that are second generation AMD A-series APU, or third generation Intel Core family based.

Please note that all other platforms that do not include support for AMD Enduro Technology are supported through AMD Catalyst Mobility.

quite confusing

cheers ...

Yup, as basically they said you had to have AMD A to 3rd gen core to use the mobility package and all other platforms are supported through the catalyst mobility :)

My system is a 3rd gen, and AFAIK from what I've read supports Enduro, the problem pops in using their driver identifier package (it's like a 1 meg download that they force on you rather then giving you access to the mobility driver exe's directly) that is meant to determine the driver you need, but if it doesn't detect the system right (works on limited systems) it doesn't provide the driver download, but if you can find the link to the actual mobility driver package, it works very well for systems it (the actual driver itself) supports (like mine) and does take care of some of the issues with the 7970m that exist in the older drivers.

Hopefully clevo will create a new driver package for the GPU which will be accepted by sager to offer to the owners - at that point, I'd probably swap back to the manufacturer version.