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    Best display drivers for m15x

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by daveh98, Nov 4, 2008.

  1. daveh98

    daveh98 P4P King

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    Hey everyone,

    I have been out of the loop for awhile and was wondering what drivers people are using for the m15x. I have the 8800GTX. I went to laptopvideo2go but there are just too many threads and drivers to go through. What are you using in your m15x and what did you do to download them correctly? Thanks!
     
    daveh98, Nov 4, 2008
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    i'm on v179.13, working just fine so far.
     
    whizzo, Nov 4, 2008
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    mixen Notebook Guru

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    I'm using 179.13 as well - running great so far.
     
    mixen, Nov 4, 2008
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    Kevin, Nov 4, 2008
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  5. daveh98

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    I tried out (am actually still using) the 179.13's and they seem fine but they did lower my 3dmark06 score to 9600 and kept my CS:S video stress test the same as the alienware beta drivers from May from thehive. I guess I will stick with these though even though 3dmark went down 400 points..is that normal?
     
    daveh98, Nov 4, 2008
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    ChutneyRemix Notebook Geek

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    so, anyone have any better ones now, i had dox's 180.43,

    but i upgraded to forceware 185.20

    any thoughts?
     
    ChutneyRemix, Mar 27, 2009
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  7. AtolSammeek

    AtolSammeek Tokay Gecko

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    Your lucky you getting your drivers working. I keep getting this error

    The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit.
     
    AtolSammeek, Mar 28, 2009
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    westcoastgeek Notebook Consultant

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    Atol, that is a common error if you do not also download the modified inf file and then copy that file into the install directory of the new drivers. Then when you run the setup program you wil not get this error.
     
    westcoastgeek, Mar 28, 2009
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