infernia

Just an fyi: Installed the 12.4 drivers and there is still major issues with xfire. Turn it off and the game (Skyrim of course) is amazing with very little stutter and lots of hi-res texture mods plus WATER mod. Unfortunately the occasional stutter would be fixed with a crossfire solution but I can't handle the flickering textures. I read the 12.6 beta was addressing xfire issues so I hope they do have a working fix coming soon. AMD Catalyst Not yet ready to beta test a driver as I am in final semester of my program. Funny thing is until I upgraded my 8.763 drivers yesterday to 12.4 i could run the game with xfire and without flickering but the secondary card was not being utilized. And to my untrained eyes I believe the game plays better with the newer driver. Just the awful flickering textures with xfire left to fix. Anywho... I see that most of the R2 owners I knew now have M18X's ... I'm jealous. Hope this helps someone that may be still working on getting their AMD(s) to play nicely with Skyrim. Cheers

I've been hiding under a rock for awhile... and finally get around to playing an actual game on this M17X R2 after a year of running only 3D modelling software and Game engine editors. I realized I still had the beta vbios and beta 8.763 drivers ... Everything works in 3DS Max 2012, and with all programs I am running atm. Skyrim is a different story but that is irrelevant. I know I don't have to flash the vbios but going from the old Dell driver to a newer version is now a bit confusing. Old method: Remove old drivers, boot into Safemode run driver sweeper and cc cleaner to get registry stragglers, reboot re-install new drivers... I have been doing searches and tons of reading and it seems that this method is not what others recommend now. I have seen many people say to install over top of the Dell driver 8.763. Do-wah? I thought this was a big no no. Can someone give me a clue why this is recommended and what step I should take at this point. I am assuming that reference drivers now work for us.. yay.. and the only one I found on AMD site easily is 12.4. That is a big jump from what I have. Also the CCC I have is quite old too but I am wary of installing that along with the drivers. *Sigh* My beautiful R2 is already becoming a dinosaur. Thx in advance *EDIT* Oh and I forgot to ask if there was any significant improvement with the A10 BIOS? My A09 version still works like a charm for me. The unplugged not charging issue popped up once in the past year. So other than that issue, is it worth a flash or no?