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A driver conundrum... what do I do now?

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I have an HP Envy 14 laptop with hybrid graphics, Intel something-r-other and AMD 5650. The drivers provided by HP are so old that some games actually don't work. The textures are like huge triangles going all over the place so things are unplayable as you don't have a valid display. AMD won't let me install other drivers; it has this checker tool that basically says "HP is in charge of that machine, we won't let you do anything." So, I got third party drivers. These ones: http://leshcatlabs.net/index.php/2012/11/catalyst-12-10-whql-unifl-for-amdintel-graphics/ This allowed me to get new drivers and everything was peachy... except now if I'm on the AMD graphics, I can't get out of sleep mode. It's a laptop, I want to be able to shut the lid for 20 minutes and open it back up and be ready to go. I like sleep mode. The BIOS doesn't give me any options at all, which is lame. So, I'm basically stuck with this driver problem. Any ideas of what to try next?
 
Play your games on a desktop where you have real control?

Research your purchase BEFORE YOU BUY so you could discover that Nvidia actually supports laptop GPUs in the reference drivers available on their website?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_drivers.html

I can't really fathom why people buy systems with such poor support. The last time I had to use custom drivers to play games on my desktop was over a decade ago, and even then I knew it was completely unacceptable.

If I were stuck in your shoes I'd start here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-envy-hdx/582545-drivers-ati-5650-6630-hp-envy-14-a.html
 
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OEM's have to pay Nvidia and AMD licensing fees for driver updates. That support has to cut off at some point because they're not going to keep paying for older hardware. Luckily it's not hard to modify the driver installation.
 
I hadn't yet seen these preview drivers. I'll try one in the next few days. For now, everything (except certain games) is working so I'll use the time to be productive just in case it breaks again.
 
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