MSI GX70 Display drivers headache

PhidlerCrab

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Do you guys think I can use the official display drivers offered on the AMD website or should I stick the official MSI ones? It says on the AMD page

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/mobile?os=Windows+7+-+64

"The following notebooks are not compatible with this tool:
Notebooks equipped with switchable graphics
Toshiba® notebooks
Sony® VAIO® notebooks
Panasonic® notebooks"

Putting an accent on Notebooks equipped with switchable graphics because the MSI GX70 has that.

The other thing is that MSI has a dozen websites and their support page isn't really intuitive. There's a US website a Canadian one and a Global one. The global one does have more updated drivers than the Canadian and US one, actually I can't even find the page on the US website for the GX70.

I'm very disappointing with MSI.

Last thing, so I did try and install the MSI Global drivers once and the "AMD VIsion engine control center" disappeared so I couldn't switch my graphics adapters for gaming anymore.

Anyways any recommendations or help would be greatly appreciated, I'm starting to get tiered of AMD, I love their bang for the buck value but they just never worked well for me.
 
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It is always safest to use the drivers from the laptop OEM, plenty of stories of incompatibility with the generic ones from GPU maker.

PhidlerCrab

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Thank you Rolli, I see you have that AMD Master badge. Do you know anything about the control center disappearing?
 

onetoomanypcs

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For the record, I am using the latest Beta drivers from AMD on my GX70 and they work just fine. Make sure you get the MOBILE ones though, not the desktop. I've not had any issues so far (and have used the different beta releases as they have been released) but that doesn't mean you won't. rolli59's advice is sound, if you do not feel like rolling back drivers or risking incompatibilities use MSi's drivers only.