Has anybody tried the 257-series nVidia drivers?

Specifically, anybody installed these on an M6400? nVidia offers the WHQL 257.21 on their driver downloads site. Supposedly supports the M3700/M3800FX cards, too. Does anybody have any experience with these? Do they work including sleep/resume, dock, multiple monitors, etc., etc.?

 

Alright, I am going to answer my own post then: Installed the driver, and it seems to be smoother than the current stock Dell driver. The nView manager is removed, but I never used that anyway. With the stock Dell driver, I had some tiny flicker of application windows sometimes, right after starting an application, and I had desktop flicker when logging out. All of that is completely gone with the 256-series driver. The Control Panel has been enhanced as well. Overall, I'd say this is an improvement. Barring issues when docked, or with multiple displays (both of which I couldn't test here at home), I think I am going to switch to this driver.

 

No problems here with docking.

 

I tried them on my E6400, and it added the nView manager and lowered the Windows Experience Index. Not too impressed, so I rolled back to a Dell driver.

Both seemed to cause a multi-colored random garbage screen when waking the system up from sleep though (it happens after preboot authentication and before the logon screen comes up).

 

Sounds good!

In my case the Windows Experience Index remained the same, but the nView manager that I had before was gone. Haven't tried sleep with it. I'll play around some more later. This is a production machine, though, and it's back to the original image now. It may take a while until I can get back to this.