174.74 Released!

New drivers from LaptopVideo2Go!
Very positive feedback.

Available in XP x86,x64 and Vista x86 + x64!

Get them here:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18049

# Supports GeForce FX, 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs including these newly released GPUs:

* GeForce 9800 GX2
* GeForce 9600 GT
* GeForce 8300
* GeForce 8200
* GeForce 8100/NVIDIA nForce 720a
* NVIDIA nForce 730a

# Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
# Adds new PureVideo HD features for GeForce 9800 GX2 and 9600 GT:

* Dynamic Contrast Enhancement
* Dynamic Blue, Green & Skin Tone Enhancements
* Dual-Stream Decode Acceleration*

# Improved performance on many DirectX 9 and OpenGL applications.

EDIT: Just installed these. 3D MARK went down a bit, but Crysis 1.2 performance is much improved over 174.12, 174.16 and 174.31
Also, OC is stable.

 

Sounds good, I'll try it out later today (I have DDR2 8600mGT)

 

This is the best performing driver I've tried so far (CoD4/TF2), but it also increased my temperatures by about 6C (~74C to ~80C). Going back to Dell 174.31 drivers for now

 

Yep this is the best driver so far. Nice and stable on CNC3, COD4, GOW, UT3. Haven't done 3dmark yet but most games are seeing a minmal fps boost.

 

yeah i just installed but haven't had any time to test them out

 

Hi.

DESKTOP 8600GT DDR3

3dmark06demo

174.31 = 5066

174.74 = 5074

no visual problems so far.

regards

John.

 

Better than 174.31???

Noitice the improvements?

 

i got 3 extra 3Dmarks..if that tells you something

 

It is definately faster than 174.31, only issue I ran into was a temp increase.

 

Are these noted improvements noticeable over the 174.30?


They are working overtime with these drivers.

 

Yes. In-Game performance increase, but possible 3D mark decrease.

 

Is it worth upgrading from 169.25?

 

All 17x drivers are worth updating to...

 

These incremental driver updates are kind of getting out of hand. Who's making them? Some L337 kids in a basement somewhere? (Rhetoric)

 

Meh. I received the impression that 169.25 was one of the most stable of the recent drivers, so I stuck with it. But if 174.74 is going to be one of those milestone ones, I might jump up to it.

 

thanx to OP.. definite performance increase in COD4 ... although temps were 3 to 4 degrees higher than usual..

 

They're weekly/nightly builds from Nvidia, they aren't really meant for everyday use.

 

I got a significal FPS boost from these ones,
I went from 169.28 -> 174.20 -> 174.74

I tested oblivion, everything on very high,
All shadows maxed( int and ext),
self shadows off, and shadows on grass off..
the rest of the options are all maxed out
1280x800

what else, oh yeah, the actual FPS,
*edit: the previous FPS on 174.20: subtract an average of 2~3 FPS on each score.
Indoors min = 30, max 70, avg = 59

outdoors min = 15(heavily grassed areas, those with oblivion know where the game suffers the most), else, the min is like 20~22, max 59, avg 40~45.

hope that helps..
oh, by the way i'm in honduras, so... local temp here always is around 30 - 35 C, so my card maintains a standard of 78~82 C... while heavy hours of gaming...

No overclock.

 

Ok, I installed it and it looks good. Aero looks good, and DOOM graphics slide like silk, so we're good.

 

Sweet!

These weekly releases are beginning to spoil me.

 

Glad you guys are enjoying your next performance driver fix.

*pats good old 169.25*

I'll just keep relaxed until the driver for the 8600m GT on Nvidia's site is updated.

There is some comfort in knowing I'm sticking with full releases, sort of like religion or having principles...

 

Give them a try...
If not, just rollback...

 

I used to install every single new release...it just gets old after about 40 driver installs.

Besides, I saw the biggest speed bump with 169.xx drivers. While 174 really seemed to improve Crysis and CoD4...I've already beaten CoD4 (so no point in improvement) and I only have the Demo for Crysis).

All of my games work just fine right now, so I am happy with 169.25.

Also, I think it might have to do with the MBP 8600 GPU in particular, but the 174 drivers would cause a freaky explosion of black rectangles on my screen every once in awhile, usually requiring a restart or logout to fix. So needless to say, that was my rollback.

 

.74 makes a difference..

Btw, I continued tesing the drivers,
I got a temp decrease of like 5C...

and i turned on the self shadows and the shadows on grass on Oblivion, on heavily grassed areas
the lowest FPS is 12, max 25, avg 18...


nice drivers i must say:O

 

Game performance improves...

Good driver

 

I just upgraded from 174.31, I have a x205 sli1 and my 3dmark06 score dropped from 7278 to 7216, but I'm wary of the scores 3dmark06 gives it's always changing each time I tried with the 174.31. With 174.74 I can't really tell a difference with game performance in Call of Duty 4 it's on par with 174.31. I guess since with .31 I was already getting a steady 60 frames per second so I think I'm already at the point of no beneficial returns with these. I just wish with the next driver version they would implement sli antiailising, cause with it on, my frame rate drops badly and I have to disable it.


Update: ok I take it back about not noticing a performance increase, it does seem to speed up Call of Duty 4 more. I posted too early without actually playing long enough so now I've played for at least an hour with many different levels in single player and multiplayer and it seems to be more speedy. With fraps on, multiplayer gives me constant 60 fps and on single player it stays steady at 60 and sometimes drops to 30 and this is with max settings, af turned all the way up but aa disabled.

 

With these latest drivers, my 8600gt gives me a MUCH better framerate for maybe a minute or two longer in TF2, but then it quickly drops right back into the crapper.

 

im still with stock drivers and never tought about giving a desktop gpu cards driver a try, should I ? You guys all do ?

 

Anyone with the 7950GTX tried them on yet?

 

why not, man? the one that doesn't risk, doesn't drink champagne

 

The release notes promised OpenGL performance improvements, therefore, I give the driver a try with Quake 4, which uses openGL, it seems the game runs slightly better, about 5-6 FPS gains in areas that were previously more demanding, and the game in general runs smoother.

The down side of this release is if you didn't use the OEM inf supplied (you have to find the right one out of 55 of them), your powermizer might not work with the new driver; thus, result in temperature gain during 2D use.

 

Easy way to figure out which is your *.inf...

Find your stock drivers and look for what the inf is named.

For Toshiba x205 users it is nvco.inf

 

Any one try these on the 8800m GTS yet?

 

Made no difference for me, from 174.31, temp or performance wise.
But I'll be keeping it. BTW this was on the laptop in meh sig in case your wondering.

 

After about a week of testing, I must say these are the best drivers I've used so far. 3DMark Increase and Performance Boost in all games I have.
Overclock is stable, and temperature's are fine.

 

I would try it but im not comfortable with the expiration date.

 

is the expiration date applied now to all the drivers or only the new ones??(learned this after deleting my old driver version witch has no expier date, that sucks)

 

expiration date? wtf are u guys talking about?! insight me, please

p.s. u better be playing, since it's still 1st of april

 

I'm prety sure the expiration date is a joke...all they did was insert ExpireDate into the ini which wouldn't do anything unless nvidia specifically had something in their drivers that would know what to do with that value.

April Fools.

 

All of tlaptopvideo2go drivers have now expiration dates. You can check the site if you do not believe us

 

I hope they were fooling around.

EDIT: I just checked the INF on the 174.74 drivers I dl'ed.
No sign of EXPIRE DATE, so I'll never have to uninstall these( if it were even true)

 

I know but they stated facts in accordance with thier move to add expireation dates

 

They were...

Even if you were to add the ExpireDate = 4/2/08
to one of the ini files, it still wouldn't do anything without actually being implemented in the nvidia driver itself.

 

So you think this is really just an April fools joke?

 

more than 99.9% likely

 

you do know that on nvidias site the latest WHQL is 174.74

if you select 8 series card then it shows latest whql to be 169.25, select 9 series card it will be 174.74

so upgrade already lol

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Should I use the lv2go inf or my OEM one

 

i can't download the asus original inf for vista32 because laptopvideo2go.com give me an error and when i try to download 32bit version of this driver it give me the 64bit......... please can someone post it for me?? it is named nvam.inf

tanks

 

It looks like it really was a joke since March actually was record breaking month for them.

50000 HITS!!!!!!!

Good Job!!!!!!!!

 

Here you go. I had to zip it so I could upload it here.

 

this driver works for the 8800m GTX?