Can somone explain what I'm doing wrong and explain it to me like I'm Simple Jack?
Okay, so every time I go to start the game I get this message from Steam:
Your video drivers appear to be out of date and can cause problems if you choose to continue and run the game. We strongly recommend that you follow the linke below and update your video drivers to the latest version available from your driver vendor.
Your driver details:
OS version: Windows
Description: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series
Version: 8.17.10.1114
Okay, for starters, the game runs fine, but, for all I know, I could have video drivers from 2010. I spent about two plus hours on AMD's site meticulously watching the how to videos on how to install new driver updates. I first tried doing it manually following the instructions on how to download the new driver, uninstall the old ones and install the new one.
So, okay, I have an ASUS G73J. The operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium and it says my system type is a 64-bit Operating Sytem. In the Device Manager it says I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series. So, following the step-by-step video I go try to manually find the driver update.
This is where I may have fucked up. There's four drop down boxes.
The first drop down box asks me to select the type of system I have.
The options are desktop graphics, notebook graphics, tv tuner products, workstation graphics, intergrated motherboard graphics, embedded graphics and Mac graphics. Still with me? Okay. The step-by-step video doesn't explain what any of these fucking mean, but, since the guy in the video has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5700 series, he says he will select desktop graphics. So that's what I did.
The rest of the drop down boxes are self explanatory. I have a Radeon HD series, a Radeon HD 5xxx series and Windows 7 64-bit operating system.
Click next and I go to the driver update page. Cool. There's a download link that reads:
Catalyst Software Suite Revison version 13.1 released on 1/17/2013. Description reads:
Package contains the following graphics drivers and dependent/required software for the products specified in the current version's official release notes for the 64 bit version of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8:
Display Driver ver. 9.012
OpenCL(tm) Driver ver. 10.0.1084.4
Catalyst Control Center ver. 2012.1219.1520.27485
I follow the instructions to download the driver update, uninstall my exisiting drivers and download the new drivers after a system reboot. I patted myself on the back, because I thought I had this thing figured out and followed all the instructional videos and even took notes before I did anything.
Same message from Steam.
When that didn't work, I downloaded the auto detect and install application from AMD to try to automatically find the driver updates and repeated the process. It still didn't work.
I don't know what to do. I mean the game runs fine and looks beautiful, but it bothers me that I apparently don't have the latest graphic drivers. Like I said, I could be playing with drivers from 2010 for all I know. I don't even know what a BioS is, so I hope it's not that and I don't want to spend another two hours researching it and I don't want to risk fucking up my PC if the game runs fine.
Am I stupid or something or is AMD/ATI driver support always this dense or hard to follow? It just annoys me that I thought I followed their instructions to the T and still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
When it comes to PC gaming, sometimes I feel like the old guy at the office who still doesn't know how email works. I'm sure I probably sound like a complete idiot to you PC guys, but any help would be appreciated.