Video Drivers on Asus M6BNE

I'd love the answer to this as well.

I upgraded to the latest Asus drivers and found them a significant improvement over the previous ones (400 points better in 3D01). Why do you want something else?

Steve

Yes, there is a program that will let you install the catalyst's from ATI's site on a laptop.(i haven't used it so i can't tell you where to getit, sorry. it is free though and available for dl somewhere. someone will post that knows)

Yes, just install the Omega drivers. No problem there.

You can't use the standard ATI drivers with the M6BNE? Is that just because of the resolution and Catalyst drivers not supporting widescreen resolutions? Would I be able to use them with the M6NE (non-widescreen)? I was going to order the M6BNE but I am waiting for my credit card payment to go through since I just maxed it out, and it should be clear again tomorrow. I dont know if I'm going to order it if I have to wait for Asus to put out drivers instead of being able to use ATI's. I can only assume that Asus will eventually stop updating the drivers for this particular model while ATI is still pumping them out for the general Radeon cards.

About omega drivers, what are they? Do they come directly from ATI with laptop use in mind, or are they an older version of drivers or what? Also, how often are they updated?

And about the program someone mentioned that allows you to use Catalyst drivers in notebooks, does anyone know what it is and who develops it?

I ended up choosing the M6BNE over the Cyberpower S4-3000 (uniwill) because of reviews of the M6 (and lack there of on the S4's part) and the secondary battery option available in the M6, but was never sure about the widescreen stuff. About the screen of the M6NE, because it is SXGA at a higher resolution, does it make the case bigger than the WXGA or is it the same size making the pixels relatively smaller? I would assume this is a stupid question and that it would be the same size because no differences in size are listed on asus's site, but figured I should ask anyway.

A completely unrelated question...How sturdy is the notebook? Could it survive in a backpack or bag of some sort that isn't the notebook carrying case if I put it in some sort of protective sleeve?

Omegadrivers are a set of ATI drivers that have been modified and tweaked by a man that goes by the alias "Omegadrive"
His drivers usually don't gain you any points in benchmarks, however, they usually give you a performance gain in games (i.e increase fps or texture appearances)

You can find his drivers here: www.omegadrivers.net

The cat drivers from ati do support widescreen because there are other widescreen displays besides on notebooks.

As for driver updating, there does come a time when the drivers ati puts out in the form of the catalyst drivers will actually reduce or not improve performance on the older cards, b/c they will be optimized for the newer hardware. You're worrying way too much about the drivers.

omega usually releases a new set of drivers based on the latest ones from ati shortly after ati releases them. his already have the tweaks applied that allow installation for mobility cards. omega drivers have actually been quasi endorsed by ati in a press release i read awhile back.

No, the case is always the same size. The pixels are a little smaller on the SXGA.

Buy a shinza sleeve and don't play hockey with your backpack and you'll be fine.

Yah, the only reason I worry about the drivers so much is that I've had bad experiences in the past with companies, namely Dell and Compaq, not updating drivers. I dislike both of those companies and consider most of their products to be unacceptable a lot of the time. In the Dell I had to replace the graphics card because it would only accept Dell drivers instead of the standard ATI drivers. The Dell drivers left the card non-functional for the most part when it came to 3D stuff and many features that were available in the other supposedly identical cards were not available in the card that Dell shipped (Direct3d, yah Direct3d) with the available Dell drivers. This was an old Radeon, either a 16 or 32MB card, I want to say 32 because I remember the previous card that I had was 16 and I spent big bucks trying to get a bigger and better card. I don't recall the specifics, but according to ATI the card was supposed to be direct 3D compatible, as it was still relatively new back then, but it was not. Anyway, not trying to complain, it's just that's one of the reasons that I am so concerned with continued driver support. Some major features that some hardware is supposed to have often require a certain driver version. It has nothing to do with minor performance increases.