HP Pavilion dv7 4180us - Games Started Lagging

Information:
i5 intel processor M 460
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5600 series/switchable graphics
3.8 GB RAM
Windows 7 64 bit (Only W7 available as far as I know)
Problem:
I had been running games such as DA, ME2, The Witcher, and more on their highest settings as of April, but then my system randomly ran into lag issues when trying to run anything on it. I have seen similar posts that have yet to be resolved, and they were posted around the same time. I am hoping that someone has determined the cause and found a fix. The only reasoning as to why it started lagging I can think of is, an update went wrong for a driver. Please, if you have any information on how to resolve this, post it. I'm desperate to play Witcher 2, heheh.

The problem was actually quite simple, though I can't fix it now unless I buy a windows 7 disc that's not from hp.
I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650... It's a switchable graphics card, which these drivers aren't supported by the ATI website. Though, when I first got the laptop, I could download the drivers from the ATI website, which is the card manufacturing site, and have the latest drivers. The problem of lag happened when I downloaded a driver from the HP website that was at least 12 versions behind. It created conflict with the ATI drivers, so I couldn't just restore the revious version for some reason. I had to format my hard drive and use the Recovery Disc that I bought from HP. Now I can only download drivers from HP period, but they don't keep them up to date. So, my graphics card will always be behind and cause major lag in games that didn't use to do that.

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Hello @danaos947 ,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand you're having issues starting up your dv7 notebook and have to do a hard reset to boot each time.
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Hi @Jaytee2 ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have read about your HP Notebook and getting a blank or black screen on startup. Try performing a hard reset.
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Hi,
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I am a HP employee, my views/opinions/etc are my own and do not represent those of HP.
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I would file some sort of bug report - but I wouldn't know where to start, I don't work in an area that has anything to do with manufacturing HP products; and this is my free time now and I don't have intranet access .
I recently picked up a HP Pavilion dv7-4113tx Entertainment Notebook PC [ XV780PA ] for my personal use and overall it's been pretty good. It comes with windows 7 Home Premium x64 bit.
there is however an issue that I must bring up in regard to gaming, or i would assume any intensive 3d application, most notably Valve games, my test of choice is Team Fortress 2.
The game will work fine in native resolution - I get around 100-120fps but about every 30 seconds - 2 minutes, there is a audio/video stutter (by stutter, it will repeat the last .5 seconds of audio about 3-4 times in a loop while the screen will freeze on where the first audio stutter started), which will cause the game to 'freeze' for approximately 2 seconds and then continue where you left off.
Team fortress 2 is an incredibly time critical multiplayer online game, and this delay essentially means my e-death on multiple occasions.
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The game purrs like a kitten - absolutely no stuttering. my score went up immediately
So, my next step was to try and get some Updated Drivers for the IDT Audio device (note, i cannot find a model name anywhere in the hp specs - or on the internet really) - I found out IDT themselves cannot release drivers, that these can only be obtained through OEMs.
which brings me to here.
now - the closest I have found to the drivers I required are here: IDT High-Definition (HD) Audio Driver for Microsoft Windows 7
Note: - it says on the page that they are 32 bit drivers - but I've found they work with the 64 bit version of windows.
these worked a little better - it fixed another annoying issue - the fact if you use the volume controls in a fullscreen application that it will switch back to the desktop to display the on screen slider bar of the volume going down (which was arguably redundant as windows 7 displays the speaker volume in the bottom right hand corner) - and it just turns the audio down as intended.
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Can an appropriate agent at HP please address this concern and notify when this bug will be fixed - IDT says they work with OEM's to fix issues regularly on the IDT link above.
I believe this is such an issue that will likely require a bug fix.

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Hi @arkas
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