New Nvidia Beta Drivers Out 285.27

7% kick in Starcraft and 6% in COD:BO!

I wonder if these are the one's eluded too on the nvidia forums that will not require a .inf mod for us?

NVIDIA DRIVERS 285.27 BETA

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could not install on my M17x, will have to mod the .inf I guess

 

Will it allow the M17x to enable the PCI Ex Gen2 ?

 

I tried to use the inf of 280.26 but installation failed at the end. It's a no go for me I guess... or i'll have to add the lines manually, maybe the .inf is different from previous versions?

 

Installed these without issue on the 580M. WEI score raised from 7.2 to 7.3 as an initial thing I noticed for the video related scores.

 

Just added the device caps (Dell 280M) back into the file and it installed fine, running it last night in Dead Island with SLI, no issues so far.

 

Installed on my 580m GTX without issue or the need for modded inf. Everything is working fine. New Physx runtimes included as well.

 

didn't work for me

 

I did report the problem about not installing twice in the last beta thread and reported it again now. How hard can it be to add it to the inf....

D you have this hw id on your 460: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DD1&SUBSYS_04BA1028&REV_A1

 

That's weird... whys doesn't it work for me with your inf? When windows reboots, both 280m say "windows cant load the drivers for this device"

EDIT: Ok, since modifying the .inf worked for you, I extracted the one from 280.26 into the 285.27 and this time it worked, it says I have 280.26 installed but I guess it's normal. I think the .inf I used before (from L2VG) was the issue.

 

I'm downloading this as soon ad I get off.

 

All I had to do was download the full driver from NVidia, and add the following three lines to the nvdm.inf file:

Line 438 - %NVIDIA_DEV.060A.01% = Section009, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060A&SUBSYS_02A11028
Line 552 - %NVIDIA_DEV.060A.01% = Section010, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060A&SUBSYS_02A11028
Line 6798 - NVIDIA_DEV.060A.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M"

Works because the 285M uses the same sections (9 and 10) as the 280M and its device caps are still in the file.

 

I have that one and three more different ones.

 

How are people's flash videos with this? I get frame drops in some...

 

wei score for this card on mine on this driver is 7.5 as it was with the driver 280

 

Installation was a breeze, i used custom method for clean install. I rebooted despite no request upon installation. I think rebooting after install is best practise as far as windows is concerned.


SORRY for double post...

 

Got it working with a modded inf on both windows 7 and 8. I bet the modded inf will work for all the alienware nvidia cards but im not sure. Go to Laptop2go and see if your card is supported with the modded inf and then you can either download just the inf mod, or the whole thing. let me know if you need help.

 

the driver crashes a lot when trying to read flash videos on discrete cards. No issues with integrated.

 

Didn't install on 285gtx sli will try adding device lines

 

My graphics card driver stopped responding while playing SC today first time ever...

 

Remember these drivers are still beta and you might run into some issues. Working great for me so far though

 

Ya i know as long as it not all the time i'm good.

 

working great with modded inf on both windows 7 and 8

 

Hi, 'New raw Meat' here, tried Battlefield 3 bata, got in 1 time, then got error:
detected nvidia driver version 257.38, minimum ver. 285.27,
nvidia 9400 card in this 1 and a half year old m17x, 6gb ram, will the newer version work in the m17x ? the first and only time I got in to Battlefield 3, I played for an hour, with no problems !! any ideas or help would be great...
Thanks.