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    nVidia Driver update?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by omni, Apr 23, 2008.

  1. omni

    omni Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Hi.
    I've always been a bit reserved when it comes to driver updates, because from my last experience, I accidentally installed the wrong driver and it screwed my PC up.
    Anyways,I believe from the nVidia site, I found out that the current graphics driver I have is 101.19 (I have an nVida Geforce 8400m G).
    This is the latest driver update from Asus:


    Version 169.25 2008/01/02 update
    Description nv16925_Vista32.zip

    ASUS VGA card display driver version 169.25 for Windows Vista 32-bit Edition

    File Size 32.33 (MBytes)


    Can anyone please go to the Asus download (link provided) and confirm that that is the right driver update?

    http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

    Thank you!
     
    omni, Apr 23, 2008
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    For nVidia, use the modded drivers from laptopvideo2go. Make sure to use the modded inf otherwise the drivers won't recognize your mobile GPU.
     
    E.B.E., Apr 23, 2008
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  3. lord_neno

    lord_neno Notebook Evangelist

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    174.74 supports this gpu witouth modded inf ^^.
     
    lord_neno, Apr 25, 2008
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    red616 Notebook Consultant

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    OP...it would help if you supplied what model notebook you have.

    Fwiw...I tried the 174.74 (via tweakforce.com) version in my F8sn as the game FEAR was acting up now & then with freezing , then trying to restart but ending up with blank screen. The version installed ok but FEAR was still acting up just in different ways. I ended up going back to stock video driver.

    FEAR still freezes now & then , I get an "out of memory" msg , so I don't know what's up with that.
     
    red616, Apr 25, 2008
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