Verde Notebook Release 260.89 WHQL - Now supports 11xR2

I have good news to bring. This driver release officially by Nvidia today finally have OFFICIAL support for us M11xR2 owners. Meaning I dont have to mod them anymore and this driver is digitally signed. I have cross check the inf file and indeed our hardware id has been included this time round. Check out the screenshot of it running on my machine I can officially retire this time!




Here's the official release notes.

As part of the NVIDIA Verde Notebook Driver Program, this is a reference driver that can be installed on supported NVIDIA notebook GPUs. However, please note that your notebook original equipment manufacturer (OEM) provides certified drivers for your specific notebook on their website. NVIDIA recommends that you check with your notebook OEM about recommended software updates for your notebook. OEMs may not provide technical support for issues that arise from the use of this driver.
Before downloading this driver:

1. Please check to make sure that your notebook has a supported GPU (refer to the Products Supported tab below).
2. It is recommended that you backup your current system configuration. Click here for instructions.
3. If you own a Dell Inspiron 1420, Dell XPS M1330, Dell XPS M1530, or Dell Latitude D630/D630c it is highly recommended that you first install this Dell software update.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS :

This is a WHQL-certified release from the Release 260 family of drivers.

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-series, and GTX 480M notebook GPUs.
* Quadro NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
* Quadro FX-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).

New in Version 260.89

Blu-ray 3D

* Adds support for playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires compatible software application from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Roxio, or Corel. For more information, NVIDIA Blu-ray 3D website.

HD Audio

* Adds high definition 24-bit, 96 and 192 KHz multi-channel audio sampling rate support for compatible Blu-ray movies with GeForce GTX 480M, GTS 360M, GTS 350M, GT 335M, GT 330M, GT 325M, 310M, 305M, GTS 260M, GTS 250M, GT 240M, GT 230M, and G210M* GPUs.
* Upgrades HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0.

*Note: A Blu-ray movie player software update may be required to enable these new features; check with your movie players software manufacturers or NVIDIA website for more details. These features are only supported on Windows 7.

Installation

* New driver installer with enhanced user interface and new Express and Custom installation options.
o Express – fast and easy one-click installation
o Custom – customized installation
+ Option to perform a clean installation (completely removes older drivers from your system prior to installing the new driver).
+ Option to choose which driver components (ie. PhysX or 3D Vision) to install.
o Improved installation time for multi-GPU PCs.

NVIDIA 3D Vision

* With Release 260 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on the changes.
* Adds NVIDIA 3D Vision streaming support for Firefox 4 and Google Chrome web browsers.
* Adds support for Sony’s 3D Sweep Panorama picture format added to NVIDIA 3D Photo Viewer (Sony digital cameras that can capture 3D Sweep Panorama pictures include NEX-5/NEX-3, Alpha a560/a580 and Cyber-shot DSC-WX5/DSC-TX9/DSC-T99 models).
* Adds support for new 3D Vision Desktop LCD monitors: BenQ X2410 and NEC F23W2A
* Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: Sanyo PDG-DWL2500 and ViewSonic PJD6251
* Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
o Arcania: Gothic 4
o Fallout: New Vegas
o FIFA 11
o Formula 1 Racing
o Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark
o Guild Wars 2
o Kane & Lynch 2 – Dog Days
o Lead and Gold
o Lego Harry Potter
o Live For Speed
o Lost Planet 2
o Moonbase Alpha
o Serious Sam HD – The Second Encounter
o Shrek Forever After
o Singularity
o Vitua Tennis 2009
o Virtua Tennis 3
* Update the following 3D Vision game profiles
o Drakensang: The Dark Eye – updated in-game compatibility text
o Mafia II – updated profile to properly for 3D Vision-Rating
o StarCraft II – fixed profile to properly recognize the retail game executable name and match the 3D Vision rating of “Good”
o Super Commander – fixed HUD elements
o TRINE – new profiles fixes that allow the game to be rated “3D Vision-Ready” when used with the TRINE patch v1.08, available via Steam.

Other Improvements

* Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514.
* Improves compatibility for older PC games (DirectX 7 to DirectX 9) running on Windows 7 (examples: Gothic, Gothic II, Falcon 4.0: Allied Force, Links 2003, Independence War II - Edge of Chaos, and X2: Wolverine's Revenge).
* Adds drag and drop display arrangement support to the “Set up multiple displays” page.
* Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

Additional Information:

* Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
* Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
* Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
* Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7.
* Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language).
* Supports OpenGL 3.3.
* Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL.


Grab it here
NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.89 WHQL

 

Been using 258.96 for a while, going to give this a try. Thanks.

 

now just got to pray for PB fix

 

good post Kopicha. More to your rep sir for all your good work!

Stevenx

 

Finally! Thanks kopicha.

 

does it support R1 ? hope it work too

 

I am still getting the PB kick in BFBC2, so it looks like this wasn't resolved in this version.

 

does this driver need to be modded or is it good the way it is?

Edit: i am an idiot didnt read first line

 

Well they made some improvement, for one, I didn't get kick off Vindictus, yay!

 

Oh very nice just downloaded,
noticed a nice difference-
You can see if the NVIDIA gpu is active
Go to nividia control panel (If it doesnt show up in the bottom right notification theen go to the start menu and type in nividia)
Go to view-
Enable the last thingy
Now you can see if the GPU is being used in the notification area
rawr ftw

 

* I appear to have been wrong!

Great to see Nvidia support us M11x users finally!
Thanks for the update.

 

Noooooooooooooooooo!

Well i hope this driver works better with crysis than the last one. For whatever reason its been giving me issues. I dont play it much so it doesnt worry me but its annoying.

 

Not to burst your bubble Bobtheflea, but this has been available for a few months now...

Anyways, looking forward to getting this bad boy on my m11x tonight, and looking forward to some benchmarks until then

 

Nice find. Great to see nVidia taking steps to help us M11x R2 owners

 

Actually, I think the onus is on OEMs, Dell in this case, to have their laptops added to nvidia's driver program.

 

A Punkbuster fix is in the works and should arrive next month!1one

The NVIDIA Blog - Introducing the First Release 260 WHQL-Certified Driver

Woot!

 

I hope those fuggers give us a free game or suppin for our grief

 

x2 happy, thx nvidia

 

Thx for all the help you guys are doing, specially you kopicha! This video card gave me a slight increase in game's fps I think, like Crysis, Sniper: Ghost Recoon, and allowed me to play Mafia II (which I couldn't with 258 driver), but before I do the upgrade to this driver, I played The Witcher Enhanced Edition without any issues, but now I got black screen with sound (weird). I hope Nvidia do a better drive for our M11x R2!

I hope this works as an advice for anyone who has Thw Witcher.

 

O M G!!! About time.

 

Has anyone tested this with wow to see if the freezing issue in the last 260.xx beta was resolved?

Thanks

 

I'm at work so I can't test it, but did they fix the problem when the laptop believed that it had a monitor plugged in?

great post kopicha +1

 

yes they did fix that monitor bug

 

Great, will test it when I get home >_> dam meting its going to make me late home

 

It has a good performance increase, go bananas when you get home

 

Kopicha, this is great news... for M11xR2 owners.

Thank you for all your support and efforts in the past.

This is the time one wished one paid more attention in class and could create ones own M11xR1 switchable GPU driver.

Nautis seems to be taking a well earned break, which again it not ideal for me and my M11xR1. I'm hoping he's in the laboratory with the tinfoil lined leather helmet, with the arcing electrics, and the crackling, the vapors, the boiling.... creating the best M11xR1 switchable GPU ever... ha ha ha..

 

Doesn't he own a Sony Z11?

 

blu ray still don't work properly with these drivers. still can't select nvidia gpu as default. it's still grayed out.

 

Why do you want to? The Intel HD is more than capable of handling any bluray output.

 

i see FPS increase in all the games i've tried. I hope when this weekend i will be able to test out if the FPS still drops after 20 minutes of playing...

 

I like the drivers. It fixed issues with WC3's colors in cinematics and mouse movement delay on GPU. I noticed fps increase in SC2 too. I had around 30ish-60ish fps on medium/high settings in a 2v2 match no OC

 

I can't play blu ray properly. I'm using PowerDVD 10 and there are lines all over the screen. blu ray played perfectly fine on my M11x R1, but it doesn't work properly on the R2. I'm assuming that it's the Intel gpu that is causing this. Since I can't select which gpu to use for PowerDVD, I'm not sure where the problem really is. If you have blu ray working on yours, please tell me what I need to do.

 

Is it like blurring? or like whitening out? if that is what is happening, http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/526215-monitor-whitening-out.html
This should help out

 

Hm strange I thought i posted a thread here.

Well Ill try again, I know it all works on the R2 now due to nvidias new support, but if anyone will be so kind to mod these the same way the 260.89 desktop beta drivers were done I know a lot of people who will be happy, since I used those to make a modded version for the hybrid solutions (Vaio Z and R1)

Thanks! glad to hear good reports.

 

How to do a clean install ? Mind to explain for me? hehe ... Still using the 257.30 driver from Dell site and wanna update to this one, thanks

 

There's a little option named "clean install" when you are in the setup. I checked it and everything worked fine. I guess there's no need to do all that driversweep stuff.

 

Wow, thanks. Also just noticed at the official site there, hehe ... gonna try it and play SC2 whether increase FPS or not ^^

 

Its under the custom option(2nd option), I think. Its not the express(recommended)

 

weird im having issues with this driver and 3dmark06 cant get it to run. It crashes just after the first scene starts.
Gonna try games...

 

After install it, the nvidia control panel icon near the bottom right there no more showing ... how to enable it back? Only the new CPU activity icon now.

 

Right-click on desktop, select Nvidia Control Panel. Once it is open, go to View and then Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area.

 

Blue screen flashed on first install, and second... Device manager shows Intel HD fine, and my desktop and everything on Windows seems fine, but nVidia isn't showing, instead it's "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter"

 

Did you install the 3D Vision part of the driver as well? With the previous beta driver I had similar problems until I installed the 3D driver too (along with the regular driver and PhysX). With this release I just installed over top of the beta driver (no clean install) and installed the 3D driver too and it worked on the first try.

Cheers,
Stain

 

Tried safe mode install, now nVidia 335m shows in device manager, but as not working properly. No nVidia software shows on taskbar or on the desktop context menu.

Going to attempt uninstall and reinstall, but so far nothing but headache.

 

Alrighty, got it installed and everything seems to be working fine.

Problem lied with my Tritton UV150 USB to VGA adapter I attempted to install a few days ago, which was buggy when I did. After uninstalling that, nVidia seems to have installed fine.

Only instant bug noticed, is in the nVidia control panel, under help > System Information.

There is a component showing above the GeForce card, but it's just blank. When you click on it, it says on the right, Driver Version 260.89; Memory 0MB; IRQ 0; Bus Unknown Bus.

Anybody else see this? Or am I still having problems?

 

yea, same, there's an empty components up there, not sure is wad

 

I have the empty component line as well

 

Same here. Empty lines.

 

Edit: Was thinking of something else

 

That is your Intel HD. It has been like this since the first 260 release so this is not a new thing. It now detects both your GPU the Intel one and the Nvidia one. Now go look under your Physx you will notice both GPU are shown there as oppose to only 1 like in the past.