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    Nvidia 257.21 WHQL drivers leaves beta today

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Alien M15x, Jun 15, 2010.

  1. Alien M15x

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    Alien M15x, Jun 15, 2010
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    Cool Thanks!!
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    picardsm, Jun 15, 2010
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  3. myx

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    Downloading as we speak. Gonna try them and hopefully they are better than 257.15 beta which seemed to couse a lot of system freezes for many users.
     
    myx, Jun 15, 2010
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  4. hazardic

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    it would be great if somebody could tell adv/disadv of this driver
     
    hazardic, Jun 15, 2010
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  5. Alien M15x

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    the official updates are:

    Adds support for NVIDIA Optimus notebooks.
    Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology
    Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0222.
    Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 which includes significant performance increases for double precision math operations.
    Adds support for a new ‘Quality’ mode for NVIDIA’s Ambient Occlusion control panel feature.
    Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX for ultimate control over multi-gpu configurations.
    Includes numerous bug fixes.



    I have run some of my games so far and i found that the:

    games run a bit smoother

    temps are bit lower

    My 3dmark 06 results increased in 420 points (GTX 260M)

    The 257 drivers can disable SLI and then set one card to be a dedicated physx card (M17x)
     
    Alien M15x, Jun 15, 2010
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  6. menengroth

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    Will be waiting to see how others get on, I had so many system freezes with the 257.15 that I had to revert to older drivers, even though the performance was better.
     
    menengroth, Jun 15, 2010
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    Sweetness! Thanks for the heads up. Downloading now. :)
     
    Lowpro, Jun 15, 2010
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  8. Mickbt26

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    May aswell download and try this. Will let you guys know if the freezes and other weird behavior that I witnessed in 257.15 is still in this release...
     
    Mickbt26, Jun 15, 2010
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    Alien M15x thanks for testing, +rep
    downloading
     
    hazardic, Jun 15, 2010
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  10. Lowpro

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    Downloaded and installed. First thing I noticed is that the refresh rate for both my laptop display and my external display is showing 60Hz via the NVIDIA Control Panel. With all prior video drivers I've never been able to set the refresh rate to 60Hz. 59Hz is always showing and if I try to change to 60Hz it simply reverts back to 59Hz once hitting "Apply". At work presently, but will be getting my game on this evening to really put this latest driver release to the test.
     
    Lowpro, Jun 15, 2010
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  11. Mickbt26

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    The constant GPU upclock - downclock when browsing and scrolling through a webpage is still present in this driver, Seems to only happen on the 280m's, When the integrated is running I dont have this problem. Hmmmm Weird

    At least the DPC latency has gone...
     
    Mickbt26, Jun 15, 2010
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  12. myx

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    For me 60hz still doesnt work, but for now I didnt have any freezes or system errors. Played BfBC2 a bit and all seems fine, performance in APB seems a bit better then with other version of drivers, but still no SLI profile for it. Didn't have time to do a 3dmark vantage run, but when I will let you know how it went.
     
    myx, Jun 15, 2010
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  13. Alien M15x

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    my refresh rate can change to 60Hz toο.thanks Lowpro.No problems with the driver so far.seems to work great :)
     
    Alien M15x, Jun 15, 2010
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    60hz is not working for me either, Its there to select but when I click apply it resets back to 59hz
     
    Mickbt26, Jun 15, 2010
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  15. Alien M15x

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    there seams to be a difference between M15x display and M17x.it appears that 60hz work with the M15x but not with M17x.May need different drivers to be enabled for the Nvidia 280M.
     
    Alien M15x, Jun 15, 2010
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