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    XPS m1530: Which video driver you use and does it increase performance?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by lanwarrior, Jan 13, 2008.

  1. lanwarrior

    lanwarrior Notebook Evangelist

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    I want to know which video driver the majority of m1530 owners use and which one gives the most performance and stability.

    I compared the benchmark of the stock video driver and Laptop2Go NVIDIA driver (ver. 11.6909) and didn't see much increase:

    Stock : 4350
    Laptop2Go: 4398

    No overclocking done and when the tests were run (also during gameplay), I disabled Superfetch, Spy Sweeper, Sidebar, indexing and all other background processing per the Vista Tweak found in this forum and Google.

    Problem is, the Laptop2Go is very unstable, crashing on Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 intermittently. The error Vista gave is some nvd*.* files crashing.
     
    lanwarrior, Jan 13, 2008
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    lanwarrior Notebook Evangelist

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    Just a quick update to this thread regarding video driver AND Stability:

    It seems now with LaptopVideo2Go drivers (169.28 and 169.09) I am getting game crashes (Crysis, Company of Heroes and Team Fortress) with this error:

    EventID 9010: A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (hl2.exe)

    EventID 9013: The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application (about 4 of these)

    These evens shows up seconds after the crashes.

    I tried the same game on my old WIn XP and (although it's slower due to old GPU), never crashses.

    What the heck is Desktop Window Manager?
     
    lanwarrior, Jan 15, 2008
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    ANybody have any issues with the above errors for playing ANY games?

    My friends told me it happens with them and on various games, like Half Life 2, Cyrsis, even C&C3
     
    lanwarrior, Jan 19, 2008
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