Latest Drivers Checklist for the M17x-R2 with HD5870 (September 2010) incl. VBIOS Flash Guide

[BatBoy]

Not every user that comes here, is registered and as tech-knowledged as you, me and that other guy no one knows who he is...

I also prefer all the latest, but if you want to solve issues on this forum, no one really wants to give support for all the different unknown drivers you may have installed from some other place, which may give unexpected issues. Also, there would be specific topics for each drivers anyway to discuss on their behaviour. What i know is that the system runs very nicely with the drivers provided by dell. For everything else i appeal to everyones own capabilities, research and find out how the drivers run.

Feel free to create a new topic with innofficial drivers and stuff you might find important for other people to stay up-to-date. I couldn't change the topics timestamp (September2010) anyway

Going to agree with Grim on this. There also have been numerous posts by the AW folks mentioning that they will not support problem reports if using non-dell issued drivers.

Regardless, nobody should be giving Grim grief over his driver list. He takes the time to maintain it and thats enough for me.

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•While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.

Thanks everyone.

[flynnaz]

Grim, I still love you

Batboy, you are the Mod of all Mods, you keep our Threads sweeky clean

[BatBoy]

Batboy, you are the Mod of all Mods, you keep our Threads sweeky clean

Thanks, but its a team effort - I have quite a bit of help from members and the rest of the mod team. Believe me, I'm not the only mod who monitors Alienware.

[steviejones133]

I have to agree also, Grim has taken his own time and effort to compile a list to help everyone. Its a great guide to get your system fully working with the latest DELL stuff and i dont think was ever intended to be anything other than that. If people wish to install non dell drivers, then thats up to them...but, for alot of people, its a great starting point to getting their system bang up to date and working as it should.

Full marks Grim, top man.

[moddy]

This thread is really useful for all of us and Grim himself has been very cooperative. When u have such a nice guide to install every thing from scratch in a proper order, i dont think there is any need to install other drivers apart from Dell's.
So far my system is working top notch be it games, full HD movies etc. I think people should simply follow the guide on the first page and see the difference it makes. I just hope Dell releases new display drivers to make use of some new games.

[Grimfan]

This thread is really useful for all of us and Grim himself has been very cooperative. When u have such a nice guide to install every thing from scratch in a proper order, i dont think there is any need to install other drivers apart from Dell's.
So far my system is working top notch be it games, full HD movies etc. I think people should simply follow the guide on the first page and see the difference it makes. I just hope Dell releases new display drivers to make use of some new games.

After a fresh install, you can easiliy uninstall the Dell GPU drivers, get the latest AMD Mobility and App Profiles and there is your support for the latest games, if they got support from AMD anyway. Also a direct install of AMD GPU drivers is possible, if you already have the new VBIOS installed.

Cheers

[moddy]

After a fresh install, you can easiliy uninstall the Dell GPU drivers, get the latest AMD Mobility and App Profiles and there is your support for the latest games, if they got support from AMD anyway. Also a direct install of AMD GPU drivers is possible, if you already have the new VBIOS installed.

Cheers

Oh So the new AMD drivers work well if i have the latest vbios?
Are there any compatibility issues?
How should i go about the installation? I mean what softwares should i use to uninstall the dell GPU drivers and install latest AMD drivers?
One more thing, i am having great trouble enabling AA in the new NFS Hot Pursuit from ATI CCC and forcing it. Nothing seem to work. Surprisingly and sadly there is no AA settings within the game. What can i do to make it work as i have tried all settings to the max but had no luck.

[Grimfan]

Yes they do. The only compatiblity issue you will probably see, is on bad coded games or yet unsupported games from AMD's side.

No major Windows issues (only those you can read from Known issues from the Release notes itself).

Since i always refer to a fresh install in this thread, i assume you did that, without updating and updating from earlier factory install. So if you made fresh windows install, installed Dell GPU Drivers, just uninstall via Programs (Express Uninstall), Restart and then Install the AMD drivers.

About AA in CCC, if you don't have ingame AA settings, you can't force them via CCC, that's for Dell drivers. It should work to force AA via CCC on AMD reference drivers, when AA is set ingame to off or not available from my experience. Cheers

[moddy]

Thanks Grim. Will get on with it

[moddy]

By the way, since i have not installed AMD video drivers before. Do i have to install the Desktop or Mobility Radeon video drivers?
Under Mobility Radeon drivers there is Catalyst control center 70.1 MB, Revision 10.11 and Catalyst Software Suite, 1.1 MB, revision 10.11
So which one of these is to be installed?