Bottom line is you need to
first try and get the drivers from Acer. If that doesn't work you could try here....
AMD Radeon - though I didn't see the 6800 Mobility series drivers.
Good luck.
You're so right, the driver provided by Acer is the one that works
the most , it is also the one that I had from the beginning and brought me to this forum looking for help :) this
6850M driver provided by Acer
is the one that leads to my games crashing after 5min of gameplay, any other driver, catalyst version or hotfix proposed through this post led to my games not even starting up, so I'm here again after all this installs and uninstalls just where I begun
About the AMD website, they indeed just show you the mobility graphic cards specs and features, but
no driver whatsoever...
Looks like I'm having no luck so far...
I run in 64bit and games run fine..
Is your machine running the latest bios update? Also drivers such as chipset, networking and sound are all equally as important as the gpu version so please make sure these are updated. (apologies if you have already done so).
Lastly I know you said you were sure it wasn't a heat problem but do you know what your actual temps are?
You got 64bit and your games run fine.. what is you GPU? is it AMD (mobile version)? cuz I think that's the problem, these drivers don't work properly and there seems to be no update or patch for it so far... I now updated the BIOS but the problem persists, thanx for the advice though
And yeah, I may be wrong since I don't actually know the current temp nor do I know what temp it should be, but I have done no modifications to the hardware so it has the manufacturers default config, and I got the notebook 2 weeks ago. I mean, I don't do any CPU or GPU intensive tasks for hours and then jump into gaming right after ... the laptop belly doesn't feel specially hot (I know I'm being too subjective, but c'mon I don't think that's the problem)... I'd say its a drivers problem.. right?
Needless to say,
the games crash after 5 min of gameplay, is that enough for it to
overheat? I hear the fan working with a consistent and smooth
bsssssss like a whisper in your ear XD