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subsequent drop in game's fps when updated to windows 8.1!!!

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June 24, 2014 11:12:20 PM

so the windows prompted me to update my operating system to windows 8.1, so i updated it...before my games were working like charm on windows 8 (games like skyrim, nfs hot pursuit)..after that my windows update told me to update the graphics driver as well, so i also updated it...after restarting the pc all games that i used to play experienced quite a lag lately...before that some games were crashing to desktop like skyrim so firstly i tried to change compatibility setting to windows 8 then the game experienced lesser lag compared to previous one...but still it isn't giving awesome fps as it would give in windows 8....:( 

my specs :-
intel core i5-4200U CPU @1.60GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.30GHz
windows 8.1 64-bit
HP pavilion notebook 15 PC
memory - 4096 MB RAM
1 TB HDD
BIOS F.04
Radeon (TM) HD 8670M - 1024 MB memory size


P.S. - i also enabled visualization settings in BIOS but still it didn't do that much.

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June 24, 2014 11:22:28 PM

''The more you complicate the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain'';Montgomery Scott, Chf Engnr. Ncc1701 a + b.
You may just have to work through a couple of driver releases to get it back to how it was.
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June 25, 2014 12:15:00 AM

i actually worked through a lot of driver releases...firstly i installed 14.4 amd driver as prescibed by amd official website...that didn't worked at all (desktop not visible).....then i went to hp website then they recommended 13.15 driver, after i installed this driver, the device manager coudn't identify my graphics card and the catalyst control center wasnt even installed...
i have some more question reagarding to that....if i've installed only amd catalyst intall manager and not catalyst control center then would it be the reason why the device manager not showing the amd radeon card and only intel hd graphics card????

P.S. - but when i right click to desktop, amd graphics card properties and configure switchable graphics shows up!!!!

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June 25, 2014 12:47:27 AM

Pal, I feel for you. This is all out of my depth, I never upgrade anything until it is absolutely bullet proof. In the case of W7 that was about 3 months. I see Q's on here day after day about 8/8.1.
I dont know, because i run 7. If your machine was ok with 8. zero and you can go back do so. The whole 8 thing is just so half baked to get money in I dont care if it boots in ten seconds instead of twenty. Its not like I am going to snuff it whilst waiting? Anyway. Sorry cant fix your update prob. .
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June 25, 2014 1:01:11 AM

BTW, as it seems 8.1 uses some modified version of dx 11 the drivers may all need to be modified too and it all seems such a headache as to be worthless.
It could be months or Never, a particular game is modded to run with a modded driver and 8.1 on a particular hardware set.
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June 25, 2014 10:01:58 AM

alright so here i'am right now....i've deleted the amd driver alongwith its files and registry.....
it's completely deleted from system right now!!!!

now i'am trying to re-install again by going to catalyst install manager, there no ccc or amd display driver is appearing on the list of install files....why is that so???i mean the packages of ccc and amd driver are already there in the driver setup directory but its cant recognize!!!!!

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July 11, 2014 12:33:07 AM

I think nvidia released a new driver set that fixed some of the issues you were having.

Clean install 8.1 works out really well in all honesty but you will need to wait a bit for things to become more stable
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