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    Windows 7 - GPU Drivers, which is the best ?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by nguyenhoangvk, May 10, 2009.

  1. nguyenhoangvk

    nguyenhoangvk Notebook Guru

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    Hi,
    I'm new here. I guess many of you here installed Windows 7. I have a question, what is the driver version of GPU you guys are using ? I'm currently using the default driver of Windows 7 ( updated from Windows Update ). But I feel it a bit lag, sometimes the screen freezes a bit, it's not long but noticeable.

    I tried install the lastest drivers 185.81 from laptop2go and 185.85WHDL from Nvidia but they seems still in development and causing some problems and the device cannot starts.

    Any recommend for me ? Which driver ? :confused:

    P/s: Sorry for my bad English.
     
    nguyenhoangvk, May 10, 2009
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  2. nacr05

    nacr05 Extreme Overclocker

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    nacr05, May 10, 2009
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    nguyenhoangvk Notebook Guru

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    Sorry, I didn't tell that my GPU is nVidia Quadro FX 3600M. Thank you, nacr05 but :( it seems my card is not supported.
     
    nguyenhoangvk, May 10, 2009
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  4. nguyenhoangvk

    nguyenhoangvk Notebook Guru

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    Anyone else has an advice ther ?
     
    nguyenhoangvk, May 13, 2009
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  5. dwend

    dwend Notebook Evangelist

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    I use vista x64 drivers, IMO they seem to be smoother than the 7 ones. I am currently using the 182.50, it is quite good.
     
    dwend, May 14, 2009
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    Snowm0bile Starcraftologist

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    I just got the 185.85 from nvidia website. When I would start farcry2 it would say I needed to upgrade my drivers because I just had the ones from the apple cd for bootcamp.

    After I installed it, there wasnt the message there anymore and I can play fallout3 with medium settings.
     
    Snowm0bile, May 14, 2009
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