Punkbuster issue with M11xR2 Optimus Discussion - BC2 and other titles

A couple months!? Seriously, it goes from November, to tomorrow, to a couple months? This is getting downright ridiculous, so basically we all fronted money for a technology that wasn't actually out yet, but was advertised as so.

EDIT: I actually think I'm misunderstanding what you wrote. Are you saying that its NOT going to be a couple months, or that it won't be a couple months till its out?

 

Seriously?
Two months?
Dang it, I seriously wanted to get MoH 2010 or BFBC2 Vietnam...

 

Woops i meant to say NOT going to be a couple more months. lol I said that because that is what you guys have been hearing over and over.

 

Yeah, but Blabb anyone that's been following this thread has known there's been a confirmed fix coming for almost 6 weeks now.

So you're really not proving anything. At best you're only teasing the rest of us about having a working driver, or at worst passively bragging about it. (Which I do not believe to be the case at all, ftr)

I read the link you provided, the Nvidia tech responded with that offer of help in what looked like a public thread unless I missed something, so I don't think you're breaking any confidentiality or breaking some kind of NDA by posting a link to the drivers with a disclaimer to use at your own risk.

What you want to do is cool and your choice and you have every right to it with genuine good wishes.

However, if it was me? I'd erase any traces to the originator who modified the drivers and then post those same drivers for every M11x player to test or use and Pimp everyone out until NVidia gets it together.

But you're right, the legit ones will be out soon and excercising some more patience in the meantime is always a good thing for one's general health, so it's all good.

Your genuine attempt to help the rest of us is what counts and I truly appreciate that.

Cheers

 

@THX

You should do law, not accounting... You've a sense of justice most of us here admire.

The wait continues.

 

Need an Optimus user that is using whatever the latest driver is to send me some files. PM me if ya can do. Most appreciative.

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EDIT: Believe me I understand everyones frustration with this situation. I paid $4000 when I first purchased this Vaio Z only to find out it uses a graphics technology that utilizes proprietary drivers. I have had this notebook for almost 2 years now and there has been maybe one graphics driver update. If I didn't start looking into things myself I would still be stuck using 186.84 drivers. Since I have modding experience from back in the 3dfx days I took it upon myself to start digging. I noticed that these "propritary" drivers seem like a combination of standard Intel and Nvidia drivers. I took that information created a driver package for myself and started the ball rolling where I posted up my findings here in a thread titled " My Discoveries on Vaio Zs Hybrid Graphics". Soon after a gent named Sorg took the information I posted and figured out the key file that I overlooked and the rest is history. Hybrid Graphics users now do not have to rely on OEMs to update their proprietary drivers (hint: they don't update them anyways) and we can now build the packages ourselves.

So there we are. All of this we are dealing with is part of the reason Microsoft came out with a statement discouraging manufacturers from implementing hybrid/switchable graphics technologies stating it "can be unstable and provide a poor user experience."

 

false alarm.

i was kicked after 1 hour of gameplay

 

@THX

The only thing holding me back from releasing this is the maker's confidentiality agreement. I will not release it unless told otherwise. But, I will do some talking and see what I can do.

 

I am going to need a guinea pig for the 265.90 package I am uploading. It is a mix between 265.90 Quadro and 260.99 Verde (M11xR2 only). It should be finished uploading in about 40mins as of this post. Can't guarantee it will work... can't guarantee it wont nuke your notebook or cause issues if it does. The only file from 260.99 Verde is the Updatussetup.exe which I am fairly certain is only for automatically updating the drivers/profiles so it shouldn't be crititcal to operation of the drivers.

 

And that's fair. And I respect that. For real.

 

I volunteer!

 

I'll do it as well, should be home within 30-60 mins and can test once home if you'd like.

 

Ok sent to THX already.. i'll PM you the link too Dane. I shouldn't need those files I asked for either BTW. I found a way to extract updatussetup.exe right after I PMd you. Thanks for helping out.

 

i volunteer as well, i just did a fresh install. have nothin to lose

 

Other than a computer lol. I'd say unless you know how to work with drivers, installs, uninstalls, etc pretty well I'd say just wait for a report on if it works or not.

 

Well first attempt is a fail installing from the package, gonna try the "have disk" method now to see if that changes anything at all.

 

Bah.. yeah.. FAIL.
Let me look over the INF again to make sure I didn't miss or add something stupid.

 

Nah not a fail just a first attempt to the path of success

 

lol well put

 

Got good news I think.. watch this space.

 

^^^^Ditto, lots of work and a bit more testing to do but keep your eyes open guys

 

See the thread here for 265.90 Community Built Drivers which may include the Punkbuster fix. I am looking forward to hearing feedback and more community participation.

 

GeFORCE GT 420M ASDFGHJKL;'!!?!!?!?

I haven't played BF:BC2 in 3 months :[.... T_T

 

Look elsewhere for a punkbuster fix fluffywuffy we already told you that this driver package is a custom one not built for the 420m so why do you continue to post things about your 420m in a non-Alienware computer?

 

i've been linked to this thread countless times. No other threads or websites with a fix :[. I've even started my own topic in the acer section.

Thanks fr the website you provided earlier for drivers, but it was no luck.

 

I believe I posted in the driver thread that if you want to test the Universal INF to PM me. I think in your haste or excitement to feel left out you must have missed it. Click my name and click "Send private message to Nautis".

 

He may not have PM privelages yet depending on when he hit his post mark and if the mods have freed up the ability to PM or not. Nautis have you had any reports of HDMI out not working on this at all? I finally got things dialed in but have no HDMI or even display port out

 

*facepalm* you are probably right. (forgot about forum restrictions with new users.)

I have not had any reports one way or the other about HDMI. I might have some idea how to fix it though.

 

HDMI is working fine for me

 

It's working fine for me now too, may have been a bad install, I was using a different .inf file than everyone else

 

Hm, I'm not getting kicked anymore and I'm on the 258.96 drivers. This is BC2 with the recent VIP update purchased through Steam. I can play indefinitely without PB problems. Haven't tested with other games yet, might do so soon.

 

Thanks for the patience guys. We've checked a solution into the upcoming Verde driver build and we're in the final stages of getting qualification.

The next Verde driver should (finally) get this issue resolved and also come with a wealth of bug fixes and perf optimizations as well.

Driver will be posting very soon....hang tight!

Sean

Sean Pelletier
Senior Technical Marketing Manager - Notebooks
NVIDIA

 

Thanks for swinging by Sean! Always like to see feedback from people on the inside here.

 

That's great to hear - I've been scared to touch my drivers for fear of losing this weird case of not-getting-kicked. As slickie said, very nice to see Nvidia reps this involved with end users!

 

Scroll down to bottom and look at ManuelG's post

Optimus issues with Punkbuster - NVIDIA Forums - Page 10

 

anything new? where's the magical driver?

 

So did the new driver come out yet or what? StevenX

 

on page twelve they are now saying early January!!!!!

nvidia fail.

 

Me too... I'm using the 260.99 current latest driver from Nvidia and have been playing BF2 for the past week without being kicked.

 

I bought the game a few days ago. Needless to say, I get kicked within 5 minutes lol.

 

can smb pm me the selfmade driver which works?

 

The driver is in this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...2-community-built-drivers-punkbuster-fix.html

 

no new driver rlsd recently? this one from the topic obove is from beginning december... now we've got january

 

Thanks for swinging by Sean! Always like to see feedback from people on the inside here.

 

NVIDIA DRIVERS 266.35 BETA
This BETA driver from NVIDIA was released yesterday. SO far it works on every PB game I have played and every program I have run.

 

CoD4 or 5? Doesn't seem to work with those?

 

Instead of kicking me for Direct3D on COD4, it kicks me for unallowed driver. its weird cuz that doesnt happen on any other game. i updated COD4, PB, and DirectX and idk what the problem is

 

Is it good for hl2.exe? Or the source engine in general as well?