***M18x - AMD Crossfire (Driver Questions, Performance, Problems) Discussion Thread***

[Mr. Fox]

Any one in the uk can confirm they can successfully download a05 and new ati beta drivers frm dell? I just get 404 not found.

Trying getting to them from the UK site... the other links are for servers in the US and you may have a bad connection from where you are. There might also be a block on your IP for some odd reason.

Dell Drivers and Downloads (UK): Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United Kingdom]

AMD Drivers: Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United Kingdom]

BIOS Update: Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United Kingdom]

Hope this helps, buddy.

[lnoton]

Nope still doesnt work. Other downloads from the drivers site do work though. Just not these two new ones.

I've download 11.10 from the ATI site as I'm not sure what the dell driver offers anyway, as brightness control isnt there...thanks DimScreen!

Bios, I guess I don't need it, I'm still on A02

[Mr. Fox]

Inoton - if I were you I would stay on A02 if you are not having issues that A05 was designed to fix. A04 and A05 BIOS updates have issues with high DPC latency, at least with NVIDIA 580M. I don't know if that is an issue with AMD GPUs or not.

[Shiandy]

I'm having a strange issue with w7 Experiance score, I'm getting 5.3 for Aero, and 6.3 for gaming.

I'm pretty sure I was getting around 7.6 before I did a clean install, just installed an SSD.

I've tested in game performance, which is fine, and ran Heaven dx11 benched 59.3 fps at the default settings, so I'm sure there running fine.

And idea's ?

[steviejones133]

You could try updating DirectX if you havent done so already - might make a difference. personally, I think WEI is completely inaccruate most of the time, as long as your system is running and playing things fine, I wouldnt worry too much.

[Shiandy]

You could try updating DirectX if you havent done so already - might make a difference. personally, I think WEI is completely inaccruate most of the time, as long as your system is running and playing things fine, I wouldnt worry too much.

I'd tried to tell my self that, but It's a little annoying when I just installed an SSD

[steviejones133]

It is set to high performance, right? and not balanced? - I know exactly what you mean...its not a reliable test, thats why I dont like it much.

[Shiandy]

It is set to high performance, right? and not balanced? - I know exactly what you mean...its not a reliable test, thats why I dont like it much.

Yep, its set to high performance, having issues with the SSD also now, its dropped into 3gb's transfer rate

[Mr. Fox]

The WEI score fluctuates wildly with different AMD driver versions. I have experienced this myself more than once. If you do a clean driver removal with DriverSweeper and CCleaner's registry tool and reinstall them, it may correct the errors in WEI.

The drop from SATA 6.0GB/s to 3.0GB/s seems to be a trend with OCZ SSD drives. It's probably yet another Sandforce bug. As it is off topic here, please participate in the discussion on this thread, which is covering that issue:

Port 0 / Sata III Speeds Dropping To Sata II Speeds

[RRei]

I have a slight brightness problem with my M18x. I usually have my brightness to around 20%, but everytime I reboot, and my windows boots up, my brightness is automatically set to 100%. When I check the brightness settings, the arrow is on 20% still :\. Does anyone know what driver(s) I have to install to fix this problem?