Nvidia 320.18 driver warning

Hi MickyD1234, I just had another 675M fail on me after 6 months, not on an Alienware tho, I suppose that makes it a little different? Anw my warranty for my notebook (MSI GT60) is expiring, unfortunately I have to settle for another 675M. What driver would you recommend? 331.82? Btw did you upgrade to a 680M yourself or were you offered that during your warranty period? Thanks!

 

Hi Zanderos,

Sorry to hear that. I haven't seen any of these cards failing in other brands but I see no reason why they wouldn't have the same problems.

The only driver I can recommend is 314.22. Way old but this one even gave some failing cards a few more months use. By the time I got to 331.82 I was running the 680m. If you want to play safe, stick with that one. Install Experience after the driver and use my first post to set it up to download game profiles, which should work on any version. You will loose a few FPS in the latest games but if you can get your games playing OK on it then stick with it.

Some games will complain that you are running an old driver and ask you to update. I found that ignoring this and continuing the game played fine.

I had dell completely replace my original 580m/R3 with a 675m R4 after a few of failures. This has had two 675's die so when dell replaced it last time I went for the upgrade. I'm still in warranty so I got the heatsink as well so I can quickly put the 675m back in if something else goes wrong.

If the GT60 was sold with a 680m then you should seriously consider one. It would be plug-n-play and should not need any special attention. Of course I cannot say for sure on an MSI so asking around in the user forum would be a good idea. laptops are so propriety any upgrade can be tricky.

The performance increase I see is excellent - even the latest games running at (almost) max settings (AA usually turned down a notch or two). A rock solid card that runs cool and plenty of room for overvolting and overclocking. I'm currently running a stable 980mhz at 1.0v and temp never exceeds 74c. I still have two more overvolts to try but the current driver is poor and I can't be bothered with rolling it back. I can still game OK with an occasional 'jitter'. Once they release a good driver I will see just how far I can push it .

Good luck and let me know how it goes

 

Hi again,


The GT60 was sold with a 675M, they have replaced the card and gave me a new power adaptor that was providing irregular voltage to the machine, causing random power outages. They also updated to the latest nVidia driver, 344.48. I don't supposed it would be recommendable to downgrade it? It looks to be working fine now, hoping it stays that way. Great setup you have btw! I'll definitely look into 680M when this one dies on me. Thanks once again for your tips and advice!

 

You're very welcome Zanderos. If this was a replacement you had done yourself then I would look at using the older driver but since they installed that version, and say the PSU was faulty, I'd run with it.

Good luck