Sony Vaio ATI GPU driver

[Psachna]

So AMD's sites says that Sony Vaio laptops are not compatible with their drivers and should download drivers provided by Sony
The last time Sony made an update for my ATI mobility radeon 5650 was back in 2011
So I am stuck with these drivers? Isn't there anything I could do to install latest drivers?
Also I have an irrelavant question, Is a programm called SlimDrivers trustworthy? It scans for out of date drivers and updates to the most recent based on its desception

 

[Rogue Leader]

I would never trust any of those driver scan programs.

As for your laptop you are SOL. While the chipset is the same Sony's implementation of it is different which is why the drivers won't work. This is fairly common when it comes to integrated graphics chipsets in laptops.

 

[Psachna]

My laptop has a dedicated graphics card though
In the past I used to ignore AMD and I did install the drivers which theoriticaly were not compatible and they worked fine sometimes better than Sony drivers did
I did a factory reset to my laptop and this time I decided not to screw things up, but it can't be that I am left with a 2011 graphic driver XD

 

[Rogue Leader]

My laptop has a dedicated graphics card though
In the past I used to ignore AMD and I did install the drivers which theoriticaly were not compatible and they worked fine sometimes better than Sony drivers did
I did a factory reset to my laptop and this time I decided not to screw things up, but it can't be that I am left with a 2011 graphic driver XD

Yeah they can work its just that they have likely found certain incompatibilities.

That said have you tried to install a newer Catalyst driver? Does the install lock you out?

 

[Psachna]

After the factory reset I did not proceed to any driver update
I even uninstalled the one the laptop had and I am thinking carefully what my next move will be about this
If you mean before the reset yes I had installed a newer ccc,nope I didn't get installation errors,only after every installation I remember it had always the same message about some error had happened during the installation but it mentioned it was not something important though
Graphics problems led me to the factory reset thing

 

[Rogue Leader]

Which is probably why AMD recommends not using the drivers. As I said they stopped supporting them for a reason. Maybe they make the chipset run hot which causes issue. There could be any number of reasons.

 

[Psachna]

I have another irrelevant question (sorry)
I am was getting a BSOD
I used a programm called bluescreenview I think and at every BSOD I was getting the reason seemed to be the direct x graphics kennel
What that,with what is it associated and could it be something serious?

 

[Rogue Leader]

I have another irrelevant question (sorry)
I am was getting a BSOD
I used a programm called bluescreenview I think and at every BSOD I was getting the reason seemed to be the direct x graphics kennel
What that,with what is it associated and could it be something serious?

Was this prior to you re-imaging the computer?

That error is related to the core of DirectX which is what Windows uses for media display (mostly gaming). That error could be anything from just a corrupt graphical file to a hardware problem but there is really no way to tell from that.