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    best 7970m driver for windows 8.1

    Discussion in 'Sager/Clevo Reviews & Owners' Lounges' started by AoutoCooper, Jul 17, 2014.

  1. AoutoCooper

    AoutoCooper Notebook Guru

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    hey guys! recently i've been starting to get low performance on some games (borderlands 2 FPS drops and low FPS on darksiders 2) and after checking the GPU list in notebookcheck.com it seems that this are not normal results! i've tried to download the 13.1 driver which seemed to get the highest results but i can't 'cause i have windows 8.1 (yayyy :/) so can anyone recommend a driver for me? BF4, BF3, darksiders 2&borderlands 2 are the main games i play right now and the all of the 14.x don't seem to change from one another.
    thanks!
     
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Have you checked your temperatures and usage percentages for your CPU and GPU with programs like intel XTU and GPU-Z?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 18, 2014
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    AoutoCooper Notebook Guru

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    i can't check my temps for some reason... usage aint high 70-90
     
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    Which version of GPU-Z are you using? Have you set it to use the dedicated GPU in CCC?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 21, 2014
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    the latest version, and yes
     
    AoutoCooper, Jul 21, 2014
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