SLi Guide (Installing, Troubleshooting + Increasing Performance)

Hi guys, does anybody tried 3dMarkd05, i ran it on my m9750 with 2 8700 on default settings which is 1024x768, score is 11717. Is it normal or low?? thank you

 

Just try 3dmark06 and let us know your score

 

for 06 its 4700 and its low.

 

i followed the guide, installed tweakforce drivers which give me no problems, enable sli, but the score sucks. What else is there to be done ? thank you

 

turn off all startup items except the nvidia SLi drivers.

Start / Type Msconfig / go to startup and services and disable everything except all the M$ services and the Nvidia ones and give me your Shader / GPU / CPU score on 3dmark.

 

i ran the test second time and it gave me 7400, then i disabled all the programs except Nvidia, and ran the test again, score: 7500. Basically no difference. But people get over 8000 easily with dual 8700m.....something is wrong with my m9750.
what is your score stone?

 

i installed nhancer, ran the test,
score 7613
sm2.0 3610
sm3.0 3486
cpu 1690

 

Haha you said "for 06 its 4700 and its low."

Nah 7500 is great. I get around 7600 with my setup but I have the 7950GTX's which are slightly faster. Your system is running fine. I assume you are running vista?

 

Yes, vista ultimate 32bit.
Well, nhaner did enhance the score a bit, so i would recommend it to everyone.

Thanks stone for your help.

 

Yep I was actually talking to a guy over on laptopvideo2go who owned a toshiba with specs very close to yours who was scoring around a 7300 or 7400 so your computer is running 100% in terms of 3dmark06 scores

 

Stone your Score is low -.- XP users break 9k barrier. Comon man! give XP a try!

 

Hehe I know I just don't have a copy of XP on me and I really don't feel like bootlegging a copy (that is illegal anyways so I'm not allowed to discuss it). I am quite content with Vista though and it does run very nice and I don't think I could go back to XP at this point.

By the way, back in the days of XP, people said go to Win98 if you wanted better 3dmark performance

 

i;m not only talking about 3dmark06. its about every game outthere, if you could lay your hands on a WinXP copy, then dont hesitate

 

How do you get over 9k? unless you have a 1400x900 screen which makes your test non-standard, I don't really see how!

Using standard 1280x1024 resolution I get:
~8600 in xp
~8100 in Vista 32

I've been playing around with Vista lately but my slow hard drive is pissing me off and I'm in the process of ordering a new one to change it out to.

Here's the kicker: I get BETTER framerates in games using Vista than I do in XP. That might mean that my factory installed XP is slowing things down but I'm not about to reinstall XP just because of it =/

 

My score is probably lower because of only 2GB of ram and a 2.0Ghz processor.

 

i have 2 gigs of ram, but the CPU is slightly Oced to 2.2ghz, and @ grey728 eith your 2.33ghz CPU you should break 9k without needing ti optimize anything, try Benchmarking with 174.74 driver.

 

Right now I'm not even sure if I should try benchmarking because I'm running with no drivers what so ever

 

Okay, I'd like to correct that last statement. I get better framerates in Call of Duty 4 but that's about it. In most games, everything seems to run better and faster in XP. Everyone already knows this though.. sooo.. . meh.

Vista Ultimate is growing on me. I like dreamscenes and dreamscapes.. pure awsome to have setup. If I really want to be hardcore about playing games, I'll boot in XP, but I think Vista will be my default startup OS for the time being. I'm a sucker for eye candy.

 

Haha yes I'm just using Vista. Oh and btw I went back to 176.14 and installed them with CAUTION and they work Only took a few weeks lol.

 

Yay back to gaming then!

 

176.14? Mean 174.16?

 

Yea sorry had other things on my mind 0_0 (At film camp which is why I'm not on a lot).

 

Hi all !
just few words from France !
I'm testing a lot of drivers (174.16/74/93, 175.16/63/63 Extrem/80...) and i'll put all results in Excel...
I do my benchs with 3DM06, Aquamark, UT3, WIC, Crysis, Far Cry, HL2 O/T, COH, BF2142 and TMUF...
It's so long, but i could post here my tests if you want, when i'll finish it !
Bye !

 

that would be great minikisskool! Thanks

 

yeah, Minikisskool's benchmarking is awaesome ! but i would suggest using the 175.19 if possible. and if you have time , Download DMC4 benchmark, its very solid one.

 

I have test it... But can't run it... I had some error i can't understand...
Sorry for this one !!!

look, this is what i do and how i present it !

 

Thats alot of effort to do minikisskool! +REP

No presence of COD4 no problem


just a side note, Because the Notebook is limited of 2.5 GB usage, the 2x2gb Ram actually does decrease performance, i personally tested that, just for future refrence, try to play games with 2x1gb Sticks if possible

and as you fellas see, @ 1920x1200 SLI gives a really big kick

but the wierd thing is, at 1280x800 with company of heroes. the FPS is actually lower than 1440x900... wierd. i think its AFx16 causing the troubles.

 

I agree with you for COD 4... But can't find benchmark for this game, and it's very hard to do same thing many time and take average fps with fraps...
For memory, i'll buy kingston Hyper-X (4.4.4.12) next month...
But i don't know if 2x1 is better than 2x2GB... It need to be tested !!!

 

Oh my ****ing god I'm so pissed off right now this computer won't work for ****. Ugh will AW EVER make a reliable computer? I have a HP that has been kicking for MUCH longer than this piece of ****. Running in safe mode 24/7 for the ****ING loss

Tested so many drivers you don't want to know. I should be getting compensated for this ****. This laptop is going back the SECOND I get home and hopefully they can finally repair it because it is annoying.

 

crap man.. sorry to hear about your troubles. Any idea what it could be? Temperature? memory? hard drive errors?

 

Remember when i was Jelous of yout 2x2g? i went to the market and bought 2 sticks, but it actually decreased my performance for some reason.

@ stone, when did your problems start to pop?

 

That sucks. Is the issue video related? Or just buggy all around, video, sound etc?

 

Which Issue Eightd?

 

lol sorry Stone's

 

It's just video, I don't know what it is though. The computer will always start without drivers but when I try drivers it will blue screen or simply not start at all. It is very weird as I have tried over 20 drivers. I'm about to shoot myself

 

did you try AW's stock drivers?

 

Does anyone has problems with nvlddmkm.sys, i get errors with startup since i installed nvidia drivers....?

 

this was great

 

I'm glad it helped you out I wrote it because I know that a lot of people have trouble getting their SLi to run efficiently. This guide also works to install drivers in general.

 

just two questions

when using the driver sweeper program... do i delete all of the files or just the chipset or just display folder?

and are there only specific files that i delete or all of them???

 

Chipset + Display folder for Nvidia.

 

Does anyone have noticeable problems with horizontal screen tearing on the m9750? I may be picky but whenever I drag windows across the screen or play games I get very nasty tearing. It apprears worse the biggger the window and faster i drag it, so it may just be a refresh problem or the LCD response time. I have tried to make a custom resolution for in the nVidia control pannel, but didnt help much. tried everything from 50 to 60 hertz, and while some got a little better, there was never a magic number that really worked. So I am just asking if anyone else notice these things or is it just me.

By the way, it looks even worse in some games like oblivion when you turn left or right, and I have tried every possible driver as well. It also happens from 32bit XP to 64bit Vista. The problem is just always there. I notice it sometimes on other laptops too, but not as bad as on my m9750.

Anyway thanks for reading and hopefully some feadback

 

Hi Stone,

What driver would you recommend for the m17x Nvidia 8800m GTX Sli setup to date?

I just recieved my new m17x with top notch setup but is experiencing crashing while playing Crysis........

I didnt want to mess with the stock AW driver nvidia 174.82 until i did more research from more knowledge people.. thanks much..

 

Well.. Stone doesnt have SLI 8800GTXs but you should ask Mangus or Eleron, they both have Stable machines.

But my guess. the 177.41 should do great for you.

EDIT: guys if you want to compare your machine's performance to a fellow m9750 owner, check the SLI Vs no SLI thread in my sig.

 

after i installed tweakforce drivers, sleep and hybernate function stopped working. do you guys know why?

 

I have no idea why that is happening but you can always revert to another driver if it is an issue for you.

 

Same here. Apparently it's a "known bug".

 

wow, this is a good guide, learnt a lot.

 

thanks man I'm glad it helped you out.

 

Hey guys...

I installed the 174.74 ini and driver files as per the instructions for part A. Only thing is I don't see the nVidea control panel anywhere in the control panel screen or in my task bar at the bottom of the screen. Did I miss or do someting wrong? or am I just having a dee dee dee moment? Any help would be great