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    Peoples Current Driver of Choice? (1530)

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Horace, Oct 30, 2008.

  1. Horace

    Horace Notebook Guru

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    Was wondering what driver people are currently going with?

    Need to try and milk what i can from it to get farcry2 at a reasonable fps

    ta
     
    Horace, Oct 30, 2008
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    fonduekid JSUTAONHTERBIRCKINTEHWLAL

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    You mean a driver for the nVidia card?

    I think it would be more helpful if you are more specific in your question / request :)

    Well, for the driver, I am not sure if there is one single driver thats preferred for farcry2 (I have seen quiet a few drivers working for different people)

    The best place would be to go to laptopvideo2go and search with "farcry2" and see the results you get.. usually there you get the idea for the most preferred / commonly used driver.

    Cheers and good luck.
     
    fonduekid, Oct 30, 2008
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  3. Horace

    Horace Notebook Guru

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    8600GT (sorry :)
    same spec as yours basically
     
    Horace, Oct 30, 2008
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    hooligan001 Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, I am currently using the most up to date driver from the Dell website (176.44 I believe).

    I have previously tried the 180.42 and also the 180.43 drivers from Laptopvideo2go, however these caused issues with the computer not waking up from standby.

    The 180.xx drivers are supposed to be optimized for Far Cry 2 though...

    Im going to wait until a newer driver that doesnt cause me any problems comes out before i update again.

    Also what specs have you go on your M1530?

    If you are disappointed with your fps you could try overclocking.
     
    hooligan001, Oct 30, 2008
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  5. JacksonDane

    JacksonDane Notebook Guru

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    I'm also using the latest drivers from Dell, they work best all around

    Newer drivers have given me better 3d performance, but the 2d was awkward, like scrolling in firefox would lag behind the movement of the scroll bar and videos wouldn't sync right
     
    JacksonDane, Oct 30, 2008
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