Latest driver for GeForce 8600M Gt

Hi all, where can I find the latest driver for my Asus G1s? The Asus official driver are not so up to date and with the latest game the performance aren't very good.

Ale

Sorry for my English...

 

laptopvideo2go.com

 

I know that site but it seems that there aren't driver compatible with Geforce M series...

 

actually thats what the whole site is dedicated too..... I think you need to look harder. Dont foget the modified inf's are a seperate file from the drivers themselves.


I have new drivers from that site personally running on this very machine.

 

Which version are you using Vicious? I noticed a decline in performance after upgrading to the latest ASUS drivers instead of the stock ones that come with the machine.

 

AlKa105 - you need to download the driver plus the "modded .inf" file - this file tells the driver about your 8600M GT.

Just unzip the new driver file into a folder, then copy the modded inf file into the driver folder and overwrite the version in there. You can then uninstall your current driver and use the setup exe in the new driver folder to run the install.

Although I have been having some 8600 driver problems too, the best one so far has been the 163.11 Vista 32-bit driver.

Hope this helps

 

Ok but I read a lot of problems with the modded file like instable games and higher temperature, do you think that is accettable in steady of a surplus in performance?

 

why would i want to download different video drivers? the nvidia ones that came with the system have a few customization options but not many: do different drivers change this?

dosent tis make the system prone to issues?

 

The drivers on laptopvideo2go ARE nvidia drivers. Drivers that don't normally work for laptop cards, only for desktop ones. Nvidia leaves it up to the individual laptop manufacturer (in this case of course, Asus) to provide updates for the graphics cards they put in their machines. Which I think is silly, since these are nvidia cards, not Asus cards (seems simple to me ). But anyway, these modified .inf files simply allow the nvidia driver install .exe to recognise your graphics card as valid and update the drivers.

I've done this recently, and there is a BIG improvement in some of the games I have tested so far (F.E.A.R, Doom 3, Civ IV: BtS, CNC3, Halo 2) - or at least no worse performance than before - when I installed drivers 158.36. Later drivers may be better still, but this version provided a big boost over the stock 101.19 drivers. If it doesn't work out you can always roll the drivers back to the last version.

 

I haven't had any luck going to a later NVidia driver even after the DL from laptopvideo2go and updating the nv_disp.inf file with the modded version.

I'd like to get a later version going myself; but so far it's a no go.

Too bad; as I"d like to see how this laptop does on HD video. It would be a kickass demo HTPC

Cheers,

 

I have had trouble overclocking the 16xx.xx drivers from laptopvideo2go.com. I have used ntune and rivatune and they won't stay overclocked. When I apply them they always go back to stock clocks. What i'm I doing wrong?

 

its not you, the latest drivers dont allow overclocking.

 

i think silenthero made a tread explaining which version drivers could be overclocked.

 

From what I saw on laptopvideo2go.com, the GF8M uses the same drivers that nvidia has on his website.

 

check the attached text file to know which card the driver supported.

 

laptopvideo2go is linking to the same drivers than on nvidias website.

I also noticed "Nvidia G98" on the 165.01 supported GPU. That could mean some studios already have some early GF9.