Mr. Fox's GeForce 344.75 Desktop Driver Mod for 780M, 880M and 980M Mobile GPUs

Well it's Official!
We saw the writing on the way. NVIDIA don't want you overclocking your property anymore.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/no-more-overclocking-on-nvidia-mobile-gpus.771169/

 

/facepalm

 

dark times looming ahead for mobile powerusers.....

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Not if we raise enough hell and draw blood from them for their stupidity.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...king-with-347-09-347-25/post/4459929/#4459929

 

I subscribe every single word you said. Very well said my friend (screenshot)

 

Does using this modded driver bypasses overclocking restriction?

 

No.. I even tried desktop drivers.. We are all getting royally screwed

 

15th in the world for HWbot 3940XM ranking! Not bad for noob benchmarker like me .. I'm pretty sure I can do more if I can lock the clocks.. Throttlestop isn't being too stable at 4.5GHz and crashing when I try to lock clocks..

http://hwbot.org/submission/2761968_tomjgx_xtu_core_i7_3940xm_815_marks

 

Wait, 344.75 (this driver) does not block overclocking on Maxwell. I am using this driver with 980M with excellent results, and so are Santander and Johnksss.

 

Yep, no I was referring to 347.51 desktop modded.
Yeah I'm still using 344.91 which work well for me and still let me OC my property.

 

i tried the 344.75 drivers on my M15x with a gtx770m (11Eo dell card) they didnt change my 3dmark score at all. they did install properly tho. thoughts?

also i tried the latest drivers (347.51) with slv7/prema's OC bios and it locked my card to 400/400 and wouldnt let me adjust the sliders. any thoughts? dumping back to 344.75

 

oh boy 770M getting locked now as well?

 

its the oddest thing. it worked fine until i flashed the card. then the card was stuck at 400/400.

tried to flash my dump of the stock bios and it was locked 400/400 even tho it was clocking fine before.

 

Yes you can modify them to the mobile version too What gives you that impression rob?

 

Mr. Fox are you saying your modded driver is the best right now for OC?

 

im sorry bud i dont understand the statement.

i have 2 different ideas going on haha. i installed Mr. foxes modded drivers by editing the nv_display file and adding the gtx770m. i did this before flashing the OC bios. after running a few 3dmark11 runs I saw no difference in 3mark11 scores. everytime i score the same. 5208 for gpu
so i installed the latest mobile drivers and ran another 3dmark11 run. same score of 5208.
flashed the card with the latest drivers still installed and it clocked to 400/400
reflashed it to stock and it clocked 400/400
ran ddu and brought it back to standard mobile drivers 344.77 and the card started to clock up to normal and was oc'able with software.

so it gets even better... uninstalled the mobile drivers with ddu went to Mr. Fox's modded drivers and it locks its clocks at 400/400
uninstall with ddu and reinstall mobile drivers and it goes back to normal and i can OC it again

 

This one and 344.60 are working great for me. Very stable, great performance and no "clock-block" crap from NVIDIA.

 

Could you add support for GTX860M (Maxwell) to your modded driver ?

 

So does this mean, with these drivers, the 980Ms are fully functional without throttle issues, or am I to understand that you simply mean you can overclock the cards no problem (not locked out), but the issues remain?

 

This driver mod was released before NVIDIA shenanigans with "clock blocking" and it works great. My 980M SLI is now in a Clevo and never throttles. You're going to have throttling from 980M in an Alienware no matter what drivers you use. The throttling is less with the crappy new locked-down drivers that do not permit overclocking. If NVIDIA stops with the "clock blocking" nonsense you will still have throttling issues to deal with running 980M in an Alienware.

 

And why it's only throttling in an Alienware (17, 18? R4?) ?

 

I do not know the reason. I wish I did and could have fixed it. That would have saved me a bunch of money buying a Clevo. I really wanted it to work well and I was sad that it did not.

 

Is 980M throttling on stock clocks in M18xR2?

 

Sometimes. Depends on the driver and the amount of power the CPU overclock is drawing. If your power utilization hits 330W it will drop like a rock. If you use one of the crappy clock-locked drivers it is not as bad, but overclocking is essentially a no-go with 980M in the Alienware M18xR2/18. Something appears to be all goofed up in the BIOS or EC... GPU appears to be listening to something it should not be concerned with and throttling to stay within some sort of artificial power draw threshold.

 

Does this apply with the 880m? I've not had throttling issues on mine but it has 880m sli

 

980M does not behave the same as 880M. 980M works flawlessly in the right machine, but the M18xR2/M17xR4/17/18 have some issues with it.

 

Ok sweet on another note, NVIDIA cracked! They are releasing overclocking features in the next driver update for 900m series GPU's. Seen on PC Gamer this morning

 

We know.. it's been like 3 days or so since they did this

 

yep, thursday afternoon around 5pm central european time

 

Wow then PC gamer is an outdated information source lol

 

Just because a lot of us involved in the Nvidia forums, which are often a source for this kind of news.

 

Can we expect a new modified by you driver release after nvidia new 'old' OC enabled driver Mr Fox?

Any way to update just SLI profiles and not full drivers itself?

 

Yes. They haven't released a driver worth having since 344.75. The next one that is decent I will update.

The SLI profiles should update automatically if you use GFE, but I do not know how to do it manually. @j95 may know how. I don't particularly care for GFE.

 

Thanks I'll ask him by PM.

 

Mr. Fox this may be a no brainer question but in the picture I've provided, if you put thermal pads in the middle of the two .5 boxes, would the 880m over heat? I'm using heatsink that has this area closed and hovers right over those spaces. I know the heatsink meant for this GPU has this area open but no official heatsink is available for the m18x r2. What can I use? Should I just leave it hovering without pads? Or put pads in between?​

 

I have thermal pads on those components with my 780M and 980M GPUs. You can use 0.5mm pads and where the stair-stepped area of the heat sink is not present, stack two or three of them to fill up the air gap. Or, you can get a small sample of the extra soft and spongy 1.0mm or 1.5mm thermal pads that will compress down to 0.5mm or less and use them in that location instead.

 

Ok awesome! My first GPU is going up to 92C and I was just curious if that was the reason. I keep re pasting it but still gets just about as hot. The second GPU I only had to do once and will reach about 68 when I'm playing warframe (my only sli game I currently own) and my second (primary) one gets to 84 I don't think that's normal but I might be wrong though

 

Mr. Fox's GeForce 345.20 Desktop Driver Mod for Alienware and Clevo Mobile GPUs

 

Seriously... http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...-overclocking-of-geforce-gtx-900m-with-vbios/
Vbios will now be even more limited regarding overclocking capabilities... What's the point of enabling it in drivers if then they further block it in Vbios ??
http://forum.techinferno.com/genera...t-overclocking-mobile-gpus-12.html#post124474

 

uh huh, "rumours" my a$$. how about irrefutable proof presented by one of the communitiy's most trusted users @Prema?

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Just use an older vBIOS that doesn't have the cancer ingredients. It's a shame NVIDIA is turning more crappy on us, but that doesn't mean you have to use their trashy new messed up vBIOS. Stock NVIDIA vBIOSes have sucked since Fermi. The production of crap from NVIDIA is not a new experience, but they do seem to be getting worse instead of better.

 

And worse it will be gradually ..

 

Is this just as good as the 344.75? Isn't the point of updating things is just to change all of the things around not necessarily to make them better?

 

For me runs smoother then 344.75! And the mod video encoder stuff is very useful too so... yeah it's worth cleaning and installing it

I'm happy with it

 

Hi MR. Fox, I try to install your driver on my machine 980M in Clevo. However, there is an error pop up. Please help.. Thank you in advance.

 

Are you using Windows 7 or Windows 8? If you are using Windows 8, booting with Driver Signature Enforcement disabled, like this, is a requirement.

 

Thanks a lot Mr. Fox..problem solved...

 

Awesome. Glad it was a simple procedural workaround.

 

@Mr. Fox new drivers for desktop/laptop are out: 377.88! Do they bring overclocking back?
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/83112/en-uk

 

3 47.88 and yes it does