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    1730 8800 Nvidia Driver Help Please

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rixhobbies, Jun 11, 2008.

  1. rixhobbies

    rixhobbies Notebook Consultant

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    What is the general concensus on the Nvidia driver to use with the 1730 and 8800 SLI setup? I tried the 175.63 drivers, which are newer than both versions posted on Dell's site, and my framerates in LotRo doubled. So performance wise, these are great. Perhaps there was simply a missing SLI profile for LotRo in the previous versions? I am not really sure how this works or if you can simply create a new profile for a game to use SLI.

    However, I have heard of issues such powermiser not working, etc, with drivers newer than 174 so I wanted to ask the folks here what driver version seems to work best for this machine.

    Thanks in advance!
     
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    lord_shar Notebook Consultant

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    I'm currently using 175.16. Great SLI performance, but Dell Media Direct's BluRay player is out commission. Fortunately Corel WinDVD + BluRay is working fine.
     
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    Ah, that's one thing I haven't tried yet. Do you feel that your machine is running hotter than with the stock drivers? That was another comment I have seen.
     
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