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    Nvidia Beta 280.19 drivers out today

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by cookie20, Jul 28, 2011.

  1. cookie20

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    Nvidia have released new beta drivers.

    NVIDIA DRIVERS 280.19 BETA

    I'm going to test it later.
     
    cookie20, Jul 28, 2011
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    Please let me (or us) know if it is stable for an upgrade. Because for Betas, it is obvious that the chance of errors is high.
     
    CGSDR, Jul 28, 2011
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    Well I'm running them now alongside Intel HD Graphics 8.15.10.2418 and am experiencing no obvious errors although as I'm in work I cant really test any games. My system is also not over clocked. So maybe I'm not the best person to ask about errors. But at a base level, as I said, I see nothing wrong.
     
    cookie20, Jul 28, 2011
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    Im about to test them wit my CPU overclocked I will tell you how they run with games ie. BF3

    Will test later today busy at the moment
     
    M14xKing, Jul 28, 2011
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    Looking at the notes it looks like it doesn't do much for performance, but you never know!
     
    clienterror, Jul 28, 2011
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    Alright, more drivers to test.. will install when I get home. Do they still require the modded INF?
     
    ComputerMD82, Jul 28, 2011
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    Yes they do
     
    M14xKing, Jul 28, 2011
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    Where can I get the modded INF for this driver?
     
    MikeYbarra, Jul 28, 2011
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    M14xKing, Jul 28, 2011
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    Driver's are working great no BSOD fixed the crashing on BF3 Alpha! :) Working great solid drivers!
     
    M14xKing, Jul 28, 2011
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    When I loaded the 280.19 drivers ...my fps dropped to 5-6 ...when playing BF2 ...but in the morning when I was playing on 267 drivers ... I was getting a steady 25-30 fps...any suggestions?? Put the system on high performance
     
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    5-6??? Really??
     
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    Try to run 3D Mark 11. If he tells you that your hardware is not direct x 11 compatible, then there is something wrong with the drivers. I tried to run 3DMark 2003 and he detected the Geforce 555 but I got only a score of about 10900. After submitting the score online, I saw that the benchmark was using the integrated graphic card.

    Since you have a huge drop in performance, I suppose that the computer does not use the Geforce 555.
     
    Nekojin, Jul 29, 2011
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    This driver is still buggy. Only got 10-30fps in sc2. I suspect that it was using the integrated graphics card. This driver makes gt555 undetectable in games.. Even 3dmark cannot detect my gt555.
     
    qohelet, Jul 29, 2011
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    you and me both. playing fallout new vegas and transformers war for cybertron with steady 35- 40fps + and now it is garbage. no overclock. base settings

    m14x king did you change anything in 3d settings control panel or just installed the drivers and ran bf3 straight away?
     
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    Trying to get this to run with BF3, i have whitelisted BF3.exe but when i go to run it i get a crash and says intel HD has been restored. Hmmm...any ideas? M14XKing?
     
    iNTERNETUAL, Jul 29, 2011
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    This method works, but one note just in case anyone else encountered this.

    I did not have the 'ListDevices.txt' file in the 'Display.Driver.0' folder. I did have that file in the 'Display.Driver.1' folder instead, and used that as the source to copy over. Driver installation worked fine.
     
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    This is going to be a bit off topic, but for New Vegas I get around 50 - 60fps avg, 40 - 50fps in combat, how did you get just between 35 - 40? Or is it you running on the 40Hz setting?
     
    CGSDR, Jul 30, 2011
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    yep no kidding...got so frustrated...formatted the entire machine and reverted back to 267 :D
     
    trooper1414, Jul 30, 2011
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    Update, for me, even though the installation went fine, I tried running 3DMark06, in the first sequence I couldn't pass 30fps. Had to revert back. I'm on 275.27 for now..
     
    ComputerMD82, Jul 30, 2011
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    i honestly didnt realise if i am playing in 40hz to be honest. quick question how can i tell? i start the game up, went to options and after installing the new driver it cant detect gt555m graphics card even after ive gone to 3d settings and set new vegas to run off the nvidia gpu
     
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    Actually I havent update the driver yet, I get that fps on the 275.33 version, and I use fraps to see the framerates.

    I do also notice that when before I whitelist the game, fraps show the game can scale up to 40fps only, but after I try whitelist both FNV and steam, and restart, it scale up to 60 at main menu, 50-60 on normal gameplay, 40-50 on battling a large group of enemies, but I also notice a significant drop when looking at the water or walking near the beaches or anything that has water like lakes and rivers. The fps drop to around 35-45.

    Anyway back to topic, are you saying that after u update the driver, you get fps drop? Because it is good to know before I try it too.
     
    CGSDR, Jul 30, 2011
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    yeah i did get fps drop. war for cybertron ran brilliant on drivers that came with m14x (260.61 i think) now its 20-25fps.
    maybe perhaps i need to mess around with 3dsettings from nvidia control panel.
    my new vegas doesnt run that well. i need to appl that update 7 to it, im sure i read somewhere it helps a ton with fps
     
    smokingjam, Jul 30, 2011
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    Nope just installed them then went to Nvidia Control Panel which my global to High-Performance and ran it :) Works perfect except for the occasional crash on BF3 which is why I MIGHT revert to a different driver just because I dont want it to crash :)
     
    M14xKing, Jul 30, 2011
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    im just gonna stick with 270.50 beta driver. so far that is fine
     
    smokingjam, Jul 30, 2011
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    is there an INF file for the 270.50 drivers?
     
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    smokingjam, Jul 30, 2011
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