3820TG Owner's Lounge - Part Two

[Just_a_Nick]

the acer's amd drivers contains both the ati and intel drivers together

personally, i do not require the newest and best drivers for the dedicated card, but the intel drivers - for certain versions at least - causes problems in windows 7 if it's run under switchable graphics mode. most noticably, the latest windows live applications (mail, messenger) and other d2d applications will fail or have issues. moreover, windows update wont allow you to download and install service pack 1 if you have the questionable intel drivers installed

this problem can be fixed if the newest intel drivers are installed, but we are at the mercy of acer for releasing a more up-to-date driver in order to fix it, because of the way the graphics drivers are packaged (the amd driver from acer also contains the intel drivers, but with the questionable versions unfortunately)

given this situation, i would rather be able to install non-acer drivers even for the future. even if amd/intel releases drivers what will fix critical issues such as this one, we still have to wait for acer to release it for your laptop

as an aside, i bought a lenovo ideapad y560 for my parents last year, also has switchable graphics, also cannot download and install windows 7 sp1. lenovo has not since released a driver package that will fix it (latest version is oct 2010). so if history repeats itself so to speak, i kinda dont want to wait for acer forever to update the driver package......if they ever choose to do so, that is

sorry for the long post

Contact Acer and write them a mail with the Bug report.

Just hit them again and again.

[Bronsky]

Also, what are the advantages, if any, of doing the non-acer ATi drivers? Currently I just have the 5470 driver from acer's website. Is there an actual advantage to the non-acer method (separate drivers, bios switching, etc.)?

Good question. The answer is, it depends. Since I use my GPU for simulation, moddeling and basic video editing, I use 10.10e, a modded driver that supports parallel processing. I also have been playing with Firepro drivers on my HD 5650 that look promissing.

On the gaming front, depending upon the specific driver, the ATI revisions could out-perform the stock Acer drivers. It is really version dependent (it can go the other way too). The performance increase may not be worth the trade-off in stability.

Bronsky

[Damarious25]

I followed this guide to allow me to overclock the 5650 in MSI afterburner but it didn't work and I still have the stock 550MHz as the MAX setting. Sorry for not following this a million times in the first thread

Hey Bronsky, your gonna have to add configuration links to programs that require them. Or get idiots like me to write dummy guides after they successfully accomplish these little tasks. lol

I'm not gonna bother to get the tray until I have the required programs downloaded and working :-)

[Bronsky]

I followed this guide to allow me to overclock the 5650 in MSI afterburner but it didn't work and I still have the stock 550MHz as the MAX setting. Sorry for not following this a million times in the first thread

Hey Bronsky, your gonna have to add configuration links to programs that require them. Or get idiots like me to write dummy guides after they successfully accomplish these little tasks. lol

I'm not gonna bother to get the tray until I have the required programs downloaded and working :-)

I hope to eventually get there. Once I have all the links to the old thread completed, I'll try to organize them into different categories. I'm only up to page 300 of the old thread so far. man ... it's long. It's funny though, to read through a year of this thread. OMG!

Bronsky

[Damarious25]

I hope to eventually get there. Once I have all the links to the old thread completed, I'll try to organize them into different categories. I'm only up to page 300 of the old thread so far. man ... it's long. It's funny though, to read through a year of this thread. OMG!

Bronsky

It's amazing what your doing Bronsky! And thread 2 looks great so far. Very clean and easy to find what your looking for.

I pity you having to go through every page of the first thread. You "should" have a team but in reality if you did they might miss something you know is important. You're the best man for the job, and doing a great one thus far!

Now to get this 5650 OC'd in afterburner... I wanna see if I can get an extra frame or two from metro 2033

[inteks]

I followed this guide to allow me to overclock the 5650 in MSI afterburner but it didn't work and I still have the stock 550MHz as the MAX setting. Sorry for not following this a million times in the first thread

Hey Bronsky, your gonna have to add configuration links to programs that require them. Or get idiots like me to write dummy guides after they successfully accomplish these little tasks. lol

I'm not gonna bother to get the tray until I have the required programs downloaded and working :-)

HOW TO: Enable UNOFFICIAL overclocking mode in MSI AfterBurner - Guru3D.com Forums

[Damarious25]

HOW TO: Enable UNOFFICIAL overclocking mode in MSI AfterBurner - Guru3D.com Forums

Ahhhhhh, thank you!

Most guides I followed just said to add the value 1, where as this guide set to add the text "I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it"

At first I thought that's a little silly... But it worked :-)

Thanks inteks

[Sxooter]

Ahhhhhh, thank you!

Most guides I followed just said to add the value 1, where as this guide set to add the text "I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it"

At first I thought that's a little silly... But it worked :-)

Weird, all I had to do was set the unnofficial overclocking to 1 and it worked a charm.

[Feiyue]

Great work Bronsk, I switched my view to show 30 posts per page to make for easier viewing.

[jahnh]

Hi everyone, especially Bronsky! Congrats on your effort for this thread(s).

I was at a local store today and looked over this little piece of (gold). I'm planning to buy one of these nice 3820TG in the next weeks. Just have a question about swapping the display panel of the 3820TG. You mentioned in this post: Acer TimelineX 3820TG Owners Lounge. Info, benchmarks, tweaks, mods and upgrades a possibility to use the panel from the 8372. Does anyone done that yet? Can't find another hint...