2010-10-25, 12:36
clipper99 Wrote:Unfreaking believeable!!Clipper - Dumb point perhaps, but you wanna check those drivers again? Is the 8.7 you refer to the driver or CCC Package Number (open the ATI CCC panel and go to Information Centre). This will give you access to the CCC Version and Driver Information.
I'm still fighting with this $1100 Acer laptop that has the 1GB ATI Mobility 5650 chipset. I *THOUGHT* I had the 10.10 CCC software installed..but..NOOOOOOOO.
Looks like Acer has decided to lockdown the drivers along with ATI to prevent me from doing so.
Here's the deal (and this really frosts my buns ):
You go to AMD's site and grab the 10.10 drivers. You run the install. Install runs fine but here's the crappy part. If you're not really paying attention you may not realize that the install goes a lot quicker than it should. Why? Because it's not really installing the latest drivers!!!! No warning message like "AMD/ATI along with Acer think you're all idiots so we're not letting you install better drivers". So I'm stuck at CCC 8.7!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
So back to the store goes this otherwise great laptop in search of either an Nvidia powered lappy or another manufacturer that will allow me to update video drivers as I see fit.
The REAL crappy part of this whole affair is that I bought my 11 year-old daughter an Acer notebook for $399 last xmas that has the Radeon HD 3xxx chipset and I can install the latest-and-greatest ATI drivers for it. It runs XBMC and plays 720p MKV files with DXVA no problem.
Double GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Reason I ask is that if that is the CC Version, then ACER/you are 2 years behind and relate to a release date of July 2008? If driver version then you are almost if not quite at the same level as my desktop ATI 5450 (driver version is: 8.773-100907a-105140E-ATI). Might be worth a check, just to confirm that driver and CCC 10.10 in particular isn't installing properly.
Have you made any contact with ACER to find out their position on this?