New XPS Studio 13 Graphics Drivers Released

Drivers are available here for Vista x64.

The are NVidia version 178.75 and should help with stability when using Hybrid SLI.

 

The download appears to be corrupt and wont install. Is anyone else having this problem?

 

I'm getting the same problem.

"This self-extracting zip file is part of a multidisk zip file. Please insert the last disk of the set."

They've been having some trouble with their driver downloads lately.

 

any luck yet with this?
the 32 bit drivers are STILL unavail.

if anyone's successfully installed this, and its solved any sleep/hang issues, please report back!

 

I've logged a call with Dell via their support pages to let them know about the problem. I don't know if they will do anything about it.

 

I am downloading it now... this time it is 68MB (instead of 61MB)... looks like they fixed it...

 

Alright guys, hate to say it, but I can confirm the new drivers DO NOT work in windows 7

the os will load, but, like the windows 7 driver that is downloaded form windows update, it doesnt allow for switching from just the 9400 to both the 9400 and the 9200. IE: The laptop runs hot all the time now, not just when you need the extra graphics power

kinda sucks, because, I've discovered that even though the stock drivers on the dell driver cd can be loaded in windows 7, and hybrid sli works with them, every once in awhile windows 7 decides to mess with your video drivers on its own - when this happens, you lose the ability to switch hybrid sli on and off, and you get a caution flag on your display adapters in the device manager saying they won't work correctly until you restart - when you restart, they still don't work.

Only solution I've found is to use system restore to rollback all drivers and then it works, for awhile, until windows 7 decides to change your driver without any notification/warning

 

I downloaded and installed the new drivers on Windows 7 build 7000 x64 edition this morning without any problems and I still have Hybrid SLI working fine. I did remove all the old drivers before installing the new drivers. The driver even said it was for Windows 7 rather than Windows Vista!

 

nVidia have also just released some updated notebook drivers (179.48), newer than the Dell ones, however I'm unable to test if these work with Hybrid SLI.

The previous version of their notebook drivers specifically stated that they do no support Hybrid SLI yet however these ones don't have that disclaimer....

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista64_179.48_beta.html

 

The new drivers do not appear to give as much control over the hybrid graphics though... I can't seem to adjust anything in the power options relating to graphics now... hmmm...

The 'Dell Recommended' settings no longer reduce the laptop from Boost Mode to Power Saver when I unplug the power... Is anyone else experiencing this with the new driver?

 

Yes I installed the new Dell ones last night and had the same problem. I couldn't turn GeForce Boost off anywhere. I've rolled back to the version on my utilities disk until someone can work out how to fix this.

 

Hybrid SLI worked just fine for me on the 179.48 drivers. I, too, completely uninstalled the old drivers before installing the new ones. I rolled back to 178.75 anyway, because I wasn't sure how stable the 179.48 drivers were.

I recorded some massive performance increases on the 179.48 drivers, though. I need to do more testing to see if the 178.75's are as good.

 

Could you provide me with the modified inf file you used to make these drivers install correctly?

 

Are you able to post the INF file or maybe paste it into a message so we can try it?