Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

[lacienega]

New AMD Catalyst™ Notebook Display Driver 12.6 out! Did they skip 12.5??

Pretty big performance improvement for me in 3D Mark11
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3764909

[downloads]

They changed the way drivers are going to be released from now on.
It's going to be done nVidia style- once they have something interesting to release which means not on a monthly basis anymore.

I don't like the idea but hey...

I'm gonna update driver links in a minute.

EDIT: Links updated.

[kilara1]

@lacienega what was your score before this driver update?

[starsay]

New AMD Catalyst™ Notebook Display Driver 12.6 out! Did they skip 12.5??

Pretty big performance improvement for me in 3D Mark11
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i5-430M Processor,Acer Aspire 5740 score: P1309 3DMarks

I have a problem with catalyst 11.6, when I change the frequencies of the HD 5650, stripes appear on the desktop!
I think now and amd gpu saphire trixx not work for me

[lacienega]

@lacienega what was your score before this driver update?

With the previous drivers I got 1278 score (clock 700/920)

I have a problem with catalyst 11.6, when I change the frequencies of the HD 5650, stripes appear on the desktop!
I think now and amd gpu saphire trixx not work for me

I noticed some flickering too after overclocking and running the 3D benchmark test. A reboot fixed this...but still...not ideal!

[starsay]

Wow!! 1543 points in 3dmark 2011, testelation min (ati 710/1090 and i7 720qm o.c 2393mhz)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-720QM Processor ,Acer Aspire 5740 score: P1543 3DMarks
1415 points with default settings
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3791648

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You've made me curious- I'm gonna test it too.

EDIT: Well it's not as good as yours but not bad either 1279 with default driver settings and 670/900 OC.

[lacienega]

Nice scores!
I have a problem with the new drivers...I changed the color temperature(built-in display) to 6300K...but after every reboot it is changed back to the default 6500K ...annoying! ATI please fix this!

[downloads]

Apparently Cats 12.6 are not even supposed to improve performance. It was a bug-fixing edition.
Next driver release 12.7 (currently in beta stage) is a performance enhancing one although it's meant to improve performance on HD 7700, HD 7800 and HD 7900 series not on HD5000.

EDIT: Cats 12.7 beta give me exactly the same score of 1279

[drjoe4321]

Help!!!

New to forums. Couldn't see how to post new topic. I have a 2 yr old acer aspire 5740g-6979 laotop. No probs until recently screen stays white on startup, or wakeup. It does not go through startup to windows welcome screen. Cpu seems to be running as computer heats up but does not post or continue to windows. At first this sometimes passed and it proceeded to windows, then it didn't. For a while a restart with battery removed restarted the notebook. Now it remains frozen. Any help would be appreciated.