Some of you may remember me bitching about the fact that Steam had locked me out of most of my games due to me to having a good enough internet connection on the vessel I am working on, even though I told Steam to sign me in only in offline mode.
Anyways, my gaming problems with the aforementioned Laptop have now progressed to the next stage beyond merely being locked out of games cos i chose to buy them instead of steal them.
When I first got my laptop rigged up, gaming performance was good. Enduro (switches graphics from HD4000 to HD7970) worked flawlessly and in really demanding games such as Crysis 3, my GPU usage would read 96% constantly.
Lately however, I am noticing that in Crysis 3, my HD7970 will happily maintain 80-90% for ten minutes or so, thereafter it wants to drop down to 50% use, where it will stay. as is imaginable, the frame rate starts to suck.
Even in non demanding games such as Pro Evo Soccer 2013, Enduro has started not even bothering to tell the HD7970 to kick in at all.
Since I have not actually done anything to my laptop except for game, MPEGs, Mp3s, and with work with Office/Excel, this degradation is not due to 'conflicts' but due to the system creating errors/corrupting itself.
Without an internet connection cable of more than 4.8Kb/s, nor a back up of any drivers. I have tried system restores which didnt work. Then I tried to 'repair' the AMD drivers through the Control Panel. Now, CCC has a Host Application Error, and will not load up at all. The HD7970 will not apply itself to any games at all, with one exception, FIFA 13.
At this point I have various questions going through my head.
Not only am asking myself why such an expensive laptop should be such a pos (lets face it Clevo owners, these machines are No crap...although very powerful as gaming notebooks, they have very poor overall design and build quality with very unstable bios' to boot), but whether I could approach Clevo as per my 2 year warranty and tell them that the HD7970 card is not fit for purpose, refund or nvidia replacement please!?
But all this will be dealt with later. In the meantime, could any Clevo owner acquainted with the same problems (or anyone else for that matter) suggest or give me a link to a procedure for dealing with a jiggered up CCC/driver issue, when I have no possible access to the original driver .exe file?
Anyways, my gaming problems with the aforementioned Laptop have now progressed to the next stage beyond merely being locked out of games cos i chose to buy them instead of steal them.
When I first got my laptop rigged up, gaming performance was good. Enduro (switches graphics from HD4000 to HD7970) worked flawlessly and in really demanding games such as Crysis 3, my GPU usage would read 96% constantly.
Lately however, I am noticing that in Crysis 3, my HD7970 will happily maintain 80-90% for ten minutes or so, thereafter it wants to drop down to 50% use, where it will stay. as is imaginable, the frame rate starts to suck.
Even in non demanding games such as Pro Evo Soccer 2013, Enduro has started not even bothering to tell the HD7970 to kick in at all.
Since I have not actually done anything to my laptop except for game, MPEGs, Mp3s, and with work with Office/Excel, this degradation is not due to 'conflicts' but due to the system creating errors/corrupting itself.
Without an internet connection cable of more than 4.8Kb/s, nor a back up of any drivers. I have tried system restores which didnt work. Then I tried to 'repair' the AMD drivers through the Control Panel. Now, CCC has a Host Application Error, and will not load up at all. The HD7970 will not apply itself to any games at all, with one exception, FIFA 13.
At this point I have various questions going through my head.
Not only am asking myself why such an expensive laptop should be such a pos (lets face it Clevo owners, these machines are No crap...although very powerful as gaming notebooks, they have very poor overall design and build quality with very unstable bios' to boot), but whether I could approach Clevo as per my 2 year warranty and tell them that the HD7970 card is not fit for purpose, refund or nvidia replacement please!?
But all this will be dealt with later. In the meantime, could any Clevo owner acquainted with the same problems (or anyone else for that matter) suggest or give me a link to a procedure for dealing with a jiggered up CCC/driver issue, when I have no possible access to the original driver .exe file?
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