Looking for a stable driver for GeForce 8600M GT x64

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a stable driver for use with Windows Vista SP1 64-bit on a Dell XPS M1530 with 4 GB of RAM and a GeForce 8600M GT 256MB GDDR3. I tried 174.34 but it was unstable and caused some issues.

I require that it uses WHQL no modified INFs, games that I am playing are CoD4, UT3, NFS Most Wanted, and Company of Heroes.

Thanks

 

laptopvideo2go, latest whql with a modded inf.

 

Try this:

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=6&fileid=267722

 

Thanks for the replies, however it has to be a 64-bit driver for Vista x64 and the WHQL certificate can NOT be broken (therefore absolutely NO modded inf files) as I am building a custom recovery image and unsigned drivers will not work correctly.

 

Thats a 32b driver...

 

Anyone using a specific driver release on an XPS M1530 with 64-bit Vista? I've heard 167.55 is good but I havent had a chance to try it yet. I want to make sure everythings going to work (wake from sleep, game performance, etc) while still retaining WHQL.

 

I just got my 1530 and installed Vista 64 bit and I just went to the nVidia site and d/l the latest driver and went to the hardware manager and selected have disk and manually selected the 8600 GT and it installed and everything seems fine for me so far. I have played some games and been using the computer for about a week without a single issue so far. I also play Blu-rays and they work fine also. I haven't tried any of those games you mentioned though.

 

Did you use a modified INF file from LaptopVideo2Go?

 

I believe the 179.13 is the lastest whql, its the laptop version of the 178.13 drivers which you can also find on laptopvideo im pretty sure that the 8600m is on the standard supported ones you can check when you go to the DL menu on the site....im using the 179.13 atm and for my SLI 8800m GTX its working great and im really feeling the power it gave me back, but sli has been bad before the 177.41 and i just upgraded past it..but im pretty sure you will get a good performance out of those drivers.

Sorry 179.13 is a broken WHQL, and i think you need to go pretty far back to find a stock INI driver for your card, prolly need to support.dell.com it and get old drivers.

 

No because that would break the WHQL and then I wouldn't be able to play Blu-rays. I am using the desktop driver version 178.13.

 

And it installed without any problems whatsoever/without using modified INF etc? How did you manage that?

 

You just install them manually through the device manager. I forget the details exactly but IIRC correctly I ran the installation program so it extracted everything on to the HD but then it comes up and says something like this is the wrong driver or something and the install stops. Then you go to the hardware manager and go to update driver and point it to where the new drivers are and then it comes up with a list of all the chips it supports and then I just manually picked the 8600 GT and I think it tells you it is the wrong driver but you tell it to use it anyway and that is it. I have done this lots of times before for other things. Especially when Vista first came out half of the things I had didn't have drivers and I had to do a lot of this kind of stuff including using XP drivers under Vista. The only thing you are changing with the modified .inf is putting your card in the list of supported hardware but you can just tell Windows to use it even if it isn't on the list.