Battlefield 3 on Dell XPS 1647 with ATI Radeon HD 5730

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HDTVNZ

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Hi all,

Dell seem to have their own custom drivers for this graphics card, and when I try to completely wipe them from my laptop, and re-install using the latest driver downloaded direct from ATI, the driver won't work. The last release from Dell was in February 2010 for the ATI drivers:

AMD ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5730

Release Date: 2/25/2010
Version: 8.692.1.0000, A17
Download Type: Driver
File Size: 124 MB

Are there any recommendations for other ways to update the graphics driver for running Battlefield 3?

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
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d4a2n0k

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This is why I only buy ASUS laptops now. I know other brands work with AMD drivers but I like ASUS myself. You're lucky if Dell updates the drivers twice over the life of your laptop. The Dell laptop video cards are custom and will not run on the regular AMD drivers.
 
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happy medium said:
use these. 64 bit windows 7 right?

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx

OR on this page on the right hand side under download drivers, choose notebook,under product line choose auto detect and install.
http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx
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Thanks for the links. I had tried the driver download from the first link, and wouldn't install. I am using Windows 7 64bit. The second link I hadn't tried... but when running the auto detect utility on the laptop, it says "We were unable to find your product or OS".

d4a2n0k said:
This is why I only buy ASUS laptops now. I know other brands work with AMD drivers but I like ASUS myself. You're lucky if Dell updates the drivers twice over the life of your laptop. The Dell laptop video cards are custom and will not run on the regular AMD drivers.
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This is what I've been fearing. I wonder if there's some way to get around Dell's custom drivers though. I also used to own an ASUS laptop, was a UL80VT with an NVidia GeForce G210M and an integrated Intel video card you could switch between for power savings. They also didn't update their drivers, and was one of the reasons I sold it as I couldn't get Battlefield Bad Company 2 running on that. Was a great laptop otherwise. LOL feels like I'm going through the same process again now, but with Dell..
 
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