195.62 WHQL Download Now

nVidia 195.62 WHQL is out now - Notebook Windows 7 & Vista (32 & 64 bit).

Download http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Sienna

 

This driver is good.
I give the Approval.
It fixes the "unable to throttle back to default frequency in Windows Desktop 2D Mode" issue.
Anyone with Nvidia Graphics should use this driver instead.
Using it now on Windows 7

 

New Power management Mode for PowerMizer in 3D Settings - Adaptive or Maximum.

Maximum - It keeps my GPU at MAXimum Power for 3D and TV.
Adaptive - Lets PowerMizer step up and down.

Working like a dream on Vista (so far)

Sienna

 

I can't find these new options in the NVIDIA Control Panel. Where are they exactly?

 

Together with Antialiasing in the advance 3d options...
Time to change your glasses...

 

LOL. It's not there. I have just the usual filtering, trile buffer and vertical sync stuff. I'm dead serious. Must be for Vista/7 only. I'm running XP.

 

In that case uninstall. Use CCleaner remove all registry traces, then reinstall.
It should be above texture filtering.

 

I'm about to boot into Vista and test it there. I'll do what you suggest in a while. I'll try DriverCleaner also if CC doesn't work.

 

Well, that new option is definitely not available under XP. Removed the drivers completely with Driver Cleaner, used CCleaner, reinstalled and... nothing.

In Vista the option was there right after the regular install.

They just don't care about XP anymore. The price of the future, I guess.

 

I don't know if there is a difference the driver for XP is not the same as Vista and Win7.

 

Apparently they are not he same.

 

Hey, after updating to 195.62 my Acer 6930G's not HDCP compatible anymore; it was working fine before. Anyone else have this problem?

 

Did you download both the PDF release notes and control panel release notes (for 195.62 drivers). There are 4 pages of 'Known Product Limitions' and 39 pages of fixes/changes etc. These limitions can be different for both 32 and 64 bit versions. I guess these are things they are working on for future releases. Download and check out the docs for your particular installation and applictions, just in case it says something.

 

The nVidia GPU Graphics Driver 195.62 is still working ace for my installation (currently testing them on Vista SP2). They work with both Acer Empowering Technology (Acer ePower) installed and WITHOUT all of the Acer Empowering Technology - on my build. This is the first nVidia Reference Design driver that has been compatible (with Acer ePower) since 176.20 for my Vista build. At present I only have acer Acer ePower installed for this test. I have found most acer stuff to be useless. However, the one good thing about Acer ePower is that you can use it to officially downclock your GPU (low graphics setting) to save power.

The nVidia 195.62 driver's new Power Management Mode (new PowerMizer Control Settings in nVidia Control Panel) is still working ace. Excellent for when you require the graphics to be at MAXimum GPU clock all the time. So we now have Maximum and Adaptive settings, now we just need nVidia to ADD a Low setting also.

Soon be testing on Windows 7-64bit. Anyway I am happy with this driver from nVidia.

 

I'm running XP and I don't have powermizer options, so my laptop is overclocked all the time, I like the driver, but this is just stupid...

 

I think for XP PowerMizer setting is in the registry.

 

I avoided 195.62 because my 6920G lost the ability to change the LCD brightness.
Also, I believe the new PowerMizer settings are limited to certain 9 Series and up GPUs.

 

Same here (6935G), had to roll back to 186.81. I couldn't set the brightness with Fn+arrows, neither through control panel. The brightness was just set random when windows 7 started.

 

Can you be more specific, please?

No problems with the brightness here.

 

Under XP there are general system-wide PowerMizer settings available. There is no truth in the statement that clocks are always at full speed in XP. What is missing is the per-game settings that are available under Vista and 7 with the newer drivers. This is at least true with my 9700M GT. Can't talk about older cards.

 

Yes I think you are correct. My 9600M GT also has the game settings in the registry (on VISTA SP2).

 

Here is the info regarding PowerMizer from some unknown guy blog...

 

That is a good blog.

I have seen something similar to this posted on this forum too. However I can never find PerfLevelSrc or PowerMizerEnable in my Registry (9600M GT - VISTA SP2-32bit and Windows 7-64bit, Graphics Drivers tried 176.20, 186.03, 186.81, 195.62 - Note PowerMizer Works fine in all drivers). Any ideas why PerfLevelSrc and PowerMizerEnable appear to be missing from my registry?

 

My tests for the 195.62 Nvidia Driver indicate that I get a 2% performance drop in 2D. Although this may not appear much, the desktop does feel less snappy especially when using the internet where it feels slightly jerky (scrolling) when lots of graphics are on the page (for Vista SP2). This is a pitty since other than this it is a good driver, espically as it supports High Definition (HD) accelerated flash (note - only with flash 10.1). For Vista SP2 it is therefore a Driver Roll Back for me. 9600M GT

 

So why did they remove the brightness options?

 

Will i get my adjust brightness fn + arrowkey if i roll back to older driver? This one sucks!

 

Must be a bug for certain GPU setups since the brightness options work fine (including Fn keys) on my 9600M GT (Vista SP2-32bit). I actually uninstalled the 195.62 and then cleaned the registry in safe mode and deleted all traces of the driver from my hard disk. Then installed my old driver. I had no problems going back - everything worked.

I expect you should be ok to rollback and brightness to function as it did before.

 

Nvidia stopped using PerfLevelSrc since 185.XX drivers.

 

Thanks that explains it. 176.20 does have it (set to 3333) - missed it the first time. Thanks.

 

Well tried to update from 186.81 tonight, uninstalled the old driver & then restarted. Attempted to install this new driver and the exact same thing happened as before when trying to update to the previous newest driver, halts at the "installing display driver components" part (which is around 65% done). So after 30 mins of the laptop doing nothing and stuck at that part of the installation I have no alternative but to manually stop via task manager & going into add/remove programs and removing any of the installed NVIDIA bits etc. and previously I had to revert back to 186.81. I did a bit of reading on google, even though there were not many results I found a page where there was a reply saying to try and install in safe mode.

So I booted into safe mode and as soon as I got onto there, Windows tried to install the graphics because of the lack of missing drivers and just as I tried to cancel, windows springs up saying that it has sucessfully installed the "NVIDIA GeForce 9600GS Drivers" :O (I was originally expecting windows to say it had installed the standard VGA driver like it usually does when you uninstall the NVIDIA drivers) Anyway I then right clicked on the desktop to them discover the NVIDIA Control Panel was on there! :O I then reboobted & booted back into normal Windows and indeed the driver had installed sucessfully automatically in safe mode! NVIDIA control panel works fine & displays the correct newest driver. I am puzzled about this, Why couldn't it install properly through normal Windows & how did Windows in safe mode manage to pick up the newest driver automatically & install the NVIDIA program too??? Could this be linked to that NVIDIA copies the original setup files & driver to C:\NVIDIA and so that is how Windows detects the files? Has anyone else experienced this problem with trying to install the drivers through normal windows??

Thanks - Liam

 

The pausing problem (around 50 to 65%) happened to me the first time I installed the 186.81 driver. I did as you and cancelled the operation (after about 3mins though) using task manager. I just installed again straight away by double clicking on the install exe. It installed ok the second time. But yes the 186.81 does sometimes stick also on my laptop. I noticed that I could check for cpu activity/sticking by checking with task manager (when the install sticks it tends to lock my cpu at 50%). So as long as the cpu activity was moving around I knew the install would be ok.

So try just re-installing straight away. I didn't need to do anything else (although sometimes I would delete the nvidia folder on the root c:\nvidia). Note - if windows trys to auto install before you have time to start your install again, then select no/don't ask again for this hardware.

It is better to clear/clean your registry (after uninstalling a driver) though and use safe mode and delete all traces from harddisk. That is what I usually do (CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/. Read the CCleaner FORUM before using - to check for any bugs for your OS setup !!!! If in any doubt, keep a backup image of your c drive and/or harddisk.

Hope this helps

 

Thanks for that, though the 186.81 driver & older ones always installed fine. It seems the newer ones after 186.81 I seem to encounter the problems with...

My Acer is the Aspire 6935G T6400, 4GB RAM & 9600GS btw.

Liam

 

6930G, T6400, 4GB RAM, 9600M GT, Vista SP2-32bit (with DirectX 11 platform update) and Windows 7-64bit. We have similar laptops. I just think it is buggy software (windows and graphics drivers). I would just try re-installing straight away

 

Ok thanks, so say like next release - if it halts again halfway, just manually stop the installation and then attempt it again straight away?

Thanks - Liam

 

Another Suggestion is to install the driver in safe mode.
If other process other interfering with driver installation safe mode may solve it.
Uninstall all traces of the driver.
Use CCleaner to clear all Nvidia Registry entries.
Restart press F8 before it boots to Windows.
Select Safe Mode.
Run CCleaner to clear registry again just in case there are leftovers.
Run the installer in Safe Mode.