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    Acer 6920g NVIDIA Drivers=Screen dimness

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Olly163, Dec 23, 2009.

  1. Olly163

    Olly163 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi there,

    I'm new to the forum so hi but i have a problem with my nvidia drivers.

    Laptop:Acer 6920g, Nvidia 9500M GS, Vista 32-bit

    Problem:

    Whenever I upgrade to the latest NVIDIA version drivers on laptopvideo2go, I have a problem with my screen brightness and vista power plan.

    Currently I have the nvidia driver 8.17.11.9581 installed (195.81).

    If I unistall any other higher version driver from acer's default driver than the power plan and screen brightness work, however if I use the latest driver then the problem happens.

    Thanks :)
     
    Olly163, Dec 23, 2009
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  2. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    195.62 and its cousin 195.81 both have this issue with the 6920G.
    Stick with 186.81, the prior release, and you'll be fine.
     
    TehSuigi, Dec 23, 2009
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  3. Olly163

    Olly163 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok thanks, im back with 8.16.11.8681 and screen brightness settings and power plan works fine. The bad thing is that using older drivers will affect gaming performance.
     
    Olly163, Dec 24, 2009
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    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    Not in all cases, and even then not by much.
    For whatever value 3DMark06 runs provide, 195.62 was equal or slower than 186.81.
     
    TehSuigi, Dec 24, 2009
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    DarkSilver MSI Afterburner

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    Yes. You need to use the Benchmarking tools(3Dmark06) to check the performance changes on different Forceware(Driver).

    Currently, I find Forceware 186.82 is the best for my AS6920G. Got 485X Score on 3DMark06 with my Overclock.
    Some people claim that Forceware 186.81 is the best because Driver/Forceware will have different effect on different machines(even the same models).
     
    DarkSilver, Dec 24, 2009
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