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    Need new Video Drivers from Asus

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by RangerXML, Oct 5, 2007.

  1. RangerXML

    RangerXML Army of None [TRH]

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    For those of you that don't know, VGA Enhancer which is a second little part of Turbo Gear bumps your Video Card up a bit by default if installed (from 475/400 to 500/450). It will also block or reset OC if you try to use RivaTuner/nTune. So if your having problems OCing there's one problem.

    The next part baffles me, Any other drivers then 101.17 can't be OCed. Even VGA Enhancer can't OC the card with any other drivers from Nvidia. I'm willing to sacrifice any level of OCing for PureVideo with the latest 163.xx drivers (which now I have AA and AF again), I still feel shafted in the preformence department from the DDR2 8600M. Finally seeing some of you how flash your video cards with OCed bios getting scores similar to my olf Satellite P105 with XP.

    Is there anyway to push Asus to release some new Video Drivers that would give use the same flexibility of there default drivers, but with preformence and purevideo support of the new released drivers.

    I regular Notebookvideo2go.com and Tweakforce.com and I'm really starting to get frustrated with the problems of the new 8XXXM cards and drivers.
     
  2. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    Nvidia is stil the maker of the drivers not Asus.

    101.xx actually runs like 20-40% slower than the 15x.xx and up, on the desktop 8600GT.

    Yeah it sucks that we can't OC. I just hope it gets fixed sometime soon. Because DDR2 800 is just too slow.
     
  3. RangerXML

    RangerXML Army of None [TRH]

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    As I said, preformence and Purevideo, which is in 163.xx and up. Trust me you'll notice a difference when trying to run HD.
     
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    I'm using 163.71. I still havent tried any HD video yet, will go look @ FFXIII trailer XD
     
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    RangerXML Army of None [TRH]

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    Better yet, go to EA and check out the Battlefield: Bad Company trailer, 720P goodness!