M17x - NVIDIA 295.51 Drivers Released - Discussion

Source: (64-bit) NVIDIA DRIVERS 295.51 BETA

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS : This is the first beta release from the R295 family of drivers. For more information, read the 295.51 driver article on GeForce.com.

This driver supports the following NVIDIA notebook GPUs (please refer to the Products Supported tab for exceptions):
ION notebook GPUs.
GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M, 200M, 300M, 400M, and 500M-series notebook GPUs. Quadro 5010M, 5000M, 4000M 3000M, 2000M and 1000M notebook GPUs.
Quadro NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those thatsupport DirectX10 or higher).
Quadro FX-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).

New in 295.51

NVIDIA SLI

Adds or updates SLI profiles for:

7554 Kingdoms of Amalur:Reckoning
Mass Effect 3
Oil Rush
Red Faction:Armageddon

3D Vision

Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3Dmonitors Adds or updates 3DVision profiles for:

The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good
Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair
Black Prophecy – rated Not Recommended
Chaos Online – rated Fair
Da Vinci Online – rated Fair
DotA 2 – rating upgraded to Fair
Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale – rated Fair
FerrariProject– rated Not Recommended
The First Templar – rated Fair
Fractal – rated Excellent
FreeStyle 2 – rated Good
The HauntedHalls Reach – rated Excellent
King Arthur II – rated Not Recommended
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – rated Fair
Kong Fu Ying Xiong – rated Fair
Love Beat – rated Good
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – rated Good
Microsoft Flight – rated Fair Perpetuum – rated Fair
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – rated Fair
Prototype 2 – rated Fair
Q.U.B.E. – rated Excellent
Quan Qiu Shi Ming – rated Excellent
rFactor 2 (mod mode) – rated Good
Saints Row:The Third – Rated Not Recommended
Shadow Company: Leftfor Dead – rated Not Recommended
Special Force – Rated Good
Tera – rated Good
Top Gun: HardLock – rated Not Recommended
Tropico 4 – rated Good
Worms Blast – rated Good

NVIDIA PhysX

Updates PhysX System Software to 9.11.1111

HD Audio

Updates HD Audio to version 1.3.12.0

Key Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixes instances of driver timeouts while simultaneously watching multiple videos. Adds edit/delete option for custom resolutions.

Other Details

Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing:CUDAC, CUDAC++, CUDAFortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP. Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.


I'll be posting the files needed to install for fellow M17x and M17x R2 with nVidia 260M, 280M and 285M etc. later this evening

Stay tooned.

EDIT: Please see post #12 of this thread for installation steps in case you get this message after downloading the correct driver version for your graphic card(s):
NVIDIA Installer cannot continue
This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware.

Enjoy

 

Ooh, mass effect 3

 

Cant wait to play ME3 as well. As to the drivers ill install them here in a bit and see how they do.

 

You the man, Katalin!!!!! Thanks!!! Definitely appreciated.

 

Does this still play nice with Optimus?

 

I remember having problem with 285.XX update for HDMI in. Is this fixed? Thx.

 

installed fine on my machine, but I have the igpu shut off to avoid graphics switching issues.

 

Won't install on mine. Says driver not compatible. Do I have to uninstall the old one first?

 

What graphics card(s) do you have, ht_addict ?

 

How do you turn off the switching?

Nvidia GTX 580M

 

I will let you know if it installs on my GTX 580M SLI

EDIT: Installed perfectly fine. ht_addict, just to confirm you have downloaded the right driver which supports your OS? Also you may consider re-downloading it and also try installing it in safe mode? I don't know if you can, but it's just a thought.

 

Follow these steps:

• First of all uninstall your current nVIDIA display drivers.
• Reboot in Safe Mode (repeatedly press the F8 key after the BIOS prompt and choose Safe Mode)
• Run your favorite registry cleaner (I personally use CCleaner), backup your registry first and choose to clean your registry to remove any remnants of the old driver (you might need to run it a couple of times until there's nothing to remove).
• Reboot one more time.
• Download the 295.51 nVIDIA beta drivers to your Desktop(or wherever you want)
• Double click and let them extract the files in the default directory (C:\NVIDIA)
• Press Cancel when it starts checking for hardware compatibility
• Download my attached archive and extract the file
• Cut/copy it and paste in "C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\295.51\WinVista_Win7_64\International\Display.Driver"
  And replace originals
• Go back to the "International" folder and run setup.exe
• Continue performing normal installation steps, choosing Custom(Advanced)>Next>and check Perform a clean installation>Next and at the windows prompt choose Install...anyway
• Reboot when prompted and voila
• Don't forget to reenable SLi in nVIDIA Control Panel and reboot your system
• Enjoy!

Note for M17x (R1) users:
-Don't forget to turn off PCIe Gen2 in BIOS under Advanced > Graphic Settings.

View attachment 295.51.zip

Please make sure you correctly followed the steps above before asking questions.

 

Installed smoothly and cleanly in my 580M equipped R3 using the normal process. Very slightly slower in 3dMark11 (~15 points), but that's probably within normal variance.

 

Just an FYI I uninstalled the 290.53 drivers, ran CCleaner and then installed the 295.51 with no problems and I have not disabled optimus.

 

having issues installing this with the 2x 280m ive followed ur step by step and no dice so far. Get no hardware with regular setup and missing files with ur included file.

 

Having the same problem. Modded .inf file doesn't seem to work for me.

edit: Rebooted then tried to install again without replacing the .inf file and it worked. New drivers seems to be working well.

 

guys something weird happened, I lost skype to this update upon a quick search, apparently this has happened to quite many especially with the 285.62 release, any ideas? trying to find a remedy but nothing is working so far

 

Thanks for the .inf Katalin!

Any overall performance increase tweaks noticed by anyone yet?

 

Folks with Dell 4xx and 5xx series cards don't need the .inf file.
Just clean current display driver and install.

 

AND I cannot run skyrim with 295.51.... anybody can confirm skyrim is running good with these? I am getting error 65432 trying to launch the game

 

Try the file attached, extract the archive into the display.driver folder.

 

I haven't had any problems with Skyrim with the new driver.

 

any gtx 580m user (WIDEZU ) can confirm if 295.51 is running skyrim?

 

And my name gets mentioned again. Sorry guys, I don't play Skyrim (don't shoot me!) so I can't tell you guys whether it works or not. Other games work fine.

 

oh shame on you!! so I will try it again in the evening, but no skype is a gamechanger for me

 

Yep, same story here with Skype. No go with this driver. Even tried a calean install of Skype.

 

Working fine here GTX580. Installed easy. Got me a few points in benchmarks. Don't play Skyrim but all my other games work the same or better than the last beta.

 

I had the a problem with skype not working (i was getting the "skype executable is corrupt please reinstall" error) after driver update and somehow got it to work by doing this:

1. clean install
2. goto nvidia control and set skype to integrated graphics (i have it set to 580M for everything)
3. set skype to run as administrator.

dont ask why but for me it worked somehow.

Hope it helps

timurStas

 

didn't work for me thanks anyway!

 

it works very well for me with my new gtx 460m, now i´ll try with skyrim if anyone wants to know

it seems to be 2 or 3 fps faster, thats great!

 

I just got my M17x and I'm having the same problem. Updating to this driver unfortunately did not fix the problem at all. Still have the 1 second delay then cut to black

 

I've since reverted to 290.53. Some of my older games wouldn't run on 295.51.

 

I'm having no luck with my R1 with GTX 260m sli.

 

Found a fix for Skype...

Uninstall Skype.
Do a new clean install of Skype.
On compatibilitybility tab for the Skype installer, run as compatible with Windows 7 and as an administrator.
The install will complete normally and launch Skype.
Check the compatibility tab on all Skype shortcuts to be sure that they are set as Windows 7 and to run as administrator.

Mine now works fine with no video issues at all.

C.

M17xR3 i7 2860QM GTX580M 8Gb 1600 Mhz 1920x1080 60 Hz 250Gb SSD 750Gb 7200 HD Killer N 1103 BR DVD

 

Any improvements on Batman Arkham City?

 

Gonna check this out now. I just tried rage which was messed up by the 290 and i had to go back to the 285 to get a smooth game (frame rates did not seem affected). Batman Arkham was much better with the 290 though and I could use the full physics AND 3d with an average frame rate of 38 (and played great). Hopefully the 295 will be at least as good as the 290 for me
Back in a while...
Edit: missed saying rage is fine on the 295...

So, BM Ark City is better from the 285 for me. I tend to look at the minimum frame rate from the in-game benchmark as a good indicator of when the card is struggling. I got 17 which is way better than I have seen sometimes (as low as 3 or 4 for a split second)

 

I have M17x R1 with the gtx 260

I recently tried installing the 295.51 Drivers. I used the modified inf. When I go through the setup I get an error "failed to install one of the core component which may affect driver functionality. The most recent driver that worked will now be restored." Also at the beginning of the install I get a message "window's can't verify the publisher of this driver software" and I can click to cancel or continue installation.

I gave up trying to install that and just tried to install the latest driver from Nvidia, but when I run the setup it fails to recognize my video card.

Any suggestions?

thanks

 

i get the same problem with these drivers 295.18 worked for me just have to use the modified inf file the issue i'm now having any nvidia drivers that i install cause my WiFi to stop working properly. try these drivers. and make sure that when your on laptopvideo2go you pick the mobile version of the drivers

 

help! im using kaitlin's modded inf, and i get required files are missing when I replace the nvdm file. I have 260m

 

can you run skyrim with 295?? it also busted my skyrim

 

Ditto. Rolled back to 290 and it's running fine.

 

The Verde 295.51 drivers specifically include the 260M in the list of supported cards. There should be no need for modded .inf files.

 

Good to know

 

well i guess dell lied to me when they sent me my m17x and had 260m on it because the installer is saying no compatible hardware found.

 

The Dell 260M are not supported, the 280M as well

 

@Pinoy 92 -- Nah, I guess Nvidia is the liar, according to Katalin. Nvidia is the one that says it is supported. Can't trust anyone these days.

 

I wish Nvidia would realize that some of us still have GTX260m's ...

 

anyone found a fix for m17x yet?

 

yes get the 295.51 zip modded inf

 

Firstly - Katalin you're a legend.

Unfortunately, I'm still having problems. I have followed the steps and get the 'Required files are missing' error. I downloaded the other zip posted (nvdm.zip) and have returned to the 'Could not find compatible graphics hardware' error.

I'm assuming the mistake is my 'Hybrid' setup? I currently have Hybrid enabled so that my cards are detected, but tend to run with both 'disabled' usually. I also have switched the PCIe Gen2 off.

Ideas?

Thanks