G510 - Lenovo Energy Management on Windows 8.1 Pro

Hello,
Today I installed a fresh Windows 8.1 Pro copy on my Lenovo G510 Notebook.
Everything went well and all drivers which I had downloaded from the support site installed successfully.
There was no Energy Management Software available for Windows 8.1, so I figured that Windows 8 version might work. So, I installed it but after a restart, Windows message center showed an error saying that Energy Management software was incompatible with this version of Windows.
So, what are your suggestions? I mainly use Energy Management to keep my battery at 50-60% charge because I always keep it plugged in and rarely take it outside with me on travels. When would you be releasing a software update? Or can I use Thinkpad's Windows 8.1 version of EM?
Side note: Just wanted to say/ask a few things. Didn't wanted to create a separate thread.
Is it okay to update Video drivers for Intel and/or AMD graphics directly from the website?
I saw that the AMD drivers were outdated and decided to update them from the AMD website, but after update there was an error reported in the log of Installer. I don't remember the error specifically but after the update, in device manager it would show AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series, instead of my specific model i.e 8570M.
So I rolled back. Also there used to be an easy access to Dolby Equilizer in the taskbar but the new drivers do not have that feature and I have to go in control panel to find the equilizer (I feel the sound quality has deterioated).
Please update the drivers, as there are a number of updated even after I installed all the latest drivers that are provided on the support site. Example, Realtek Card Reader (Windows reported different models than which were available on the official Realtek website but I installed anyway, they don't seem to misbehave), Conexant Audio driver of size 180MB, from Windows Update ( After this update, I cannot switch between Voice Recording and VOIP, VOIP is greyed out), Intel Video Driver update from Windows Update, which I didnot install because I play games on my laptop, and I fear this will ruin the Switchable graphics options, and AMD drivers from officlal AMD website for the same reasons that I did not install Intel's.
I am sorry for the long post. But any help and feedback will be greatly appriciated.

I have installed Lenovo Energy Management 8.0.2.4 for Windows 8 (G510), in compatibility mode on my G510 running Windows 8.1 Pro.
For now it is not giving a compatibility error.
I did a little searching and found out that G510s is very similar to G510 model, except the touchscreen and Nvidia Graphics. My G510 has AMD Radeon. I found Lenovo Energy Management 1.0.0.31 for Windows 8.1 (G510s). Going to install that.
Also, the Drivers CD which came with the box had Energy Management v1.0.0.24 and 32bit & 64bit were in different setups. I think this will be more compatible.
I need experts advice. Please reply.
EDIT: This works! v1.0.0.31 has that similar interface to the EM software that came in the CD. So far no compatibility errors as well.

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