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    Best Video Driver for m17x 8800m GTX SLI

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by davehsia, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. davehsia

    davehsia Notebook Enthusiast

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    The stock AW 174.82 driver gave me the really bad performance in Crysis (1024x768 in all high playable), so I decided to try other drivers from laptopvideo2go.com.

    What video driver are you using for your m17x? Perhaps we can share.

    After trying various drivers (169.09, 169.44, 174.74, 177.73, 177.79, 175.19) from laptopvideo2go.com.

    I'm currently running 175.19 as it gives me much better performance in games, and yet stable (1900x1200 all high except shader and shadow in med). But still can't get blu-ray to work with this driver yet..
     
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  2. AtolSammeek

    AtolSammeek Tokay Gecko

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    Do your reserach more Crysis Dose not work well with sli setups. I would read up on it with desktops and Laptops with the same type of GPUs. If you want to complain then use the Crysis forums.
     
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  3. davehsia

    davehsia Notebook Enthusiast

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    um... i did do alot of research. and im not complainning either.

    im just simply trying to share and get some opinions on differernt performances with the differerent drivers for the alienware m17x owners for games in general.

    what driver are you using AtolSammeek?

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    Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme X9000 2.8GHz
    Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz – 2 x 2048MB
    Graphics Card: Dual 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8800M GTX – SLI
    Operating System: Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1
    System Drive: Dual Drive Configuration - 240GB (120GB x 2) 7,200RPM Raid 0
    Optical Drive: Blu-Ray 2X DVD Recorder
     
    davehsia, Aug 5, 2008
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  4. brainer

    brainer Notebook Virtuoso

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    you should try the 177 series of drivers, it has been great with SLI for me.
     
    brainer, Aug 5, 2008
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  5. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    haha nice edit davehsia! ;)
     
    whizzo, Aug 5, 2008
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    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    177.41 and up are very good for SLI.
     
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    kobe Notebook Virtuoso

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    177.72 is awesome for a single m8800GTX on the m15x, I don't know about SLi. Try it out, dave. :)
     
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    Qualao Notebook Consultant

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    I'm using 177.72 so far also for SLI, it seems to be good so far. Stable and good temps.
     
    Qualao, Aug 6, 2008
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    davehsia Notebook Enthusiast

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    When i tried out the 177 series, it slowed me down after about 45mins of gaming. and one of the 177.xx driver I've tried actually turned off the blue light on my power adaptor after 30mins to 45mins of playing!

    maybe i did something wrong in the installation. havent heard anyone else had the same problem in any forum yet tho.
     
    davehsia, Aug 6, 2008
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