175.12 Drivers Released from Laptopvideos2go

Just check on the website and they have new one.
link: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showforum=93

 

Look at this huge list of issues:

The NVIDIA Control Panel option is missing from the desktop context menu. [419193]
The graphics driver installer sometimes displays an 'incorrect operating system' error message when trying to install on a GPU that not supported by the driver. [310188]
GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 8800 GTX: With multiple displays connected, the NVIDIA Control Panel crashes when loading any saved profile after switching single display modes to another display. [401488]
GeForce 9800 GX2: Civilization 4–white flickering occurs on the map after zooming out at high resolutions and with antialiasing enabled. [391640]
GeForce 8 Series: After installing the driver over version 169.25, an attempt to uninstall the driver from Vista Programs and Features might fail with an 'Error in NVCPL.DLL' message.
You must uninstall the driver a second time to successfully remove the driver.
GeForce 8800 GTS: The desktop color becomes dark after switching from Clone mode to single-display mode. [353737]
GeForce 8800 GTX/Ultra: OpenGL applications experience a drop in performance with in-game 8x antialiasing set.
GeForce 8800 GT/GTX: Crysis (DirectX 10) - game performance drops after switching to a higher resolution and then switching back to the lower resolution. [368740]
GeForce 8800 GTX: Tabula Rasa–there is ghosting on the game character while standing below the drop ship after enabling refraction from the game control panel. [357271]
GeForce 8800 GTX: Company of Heroes (DirectX 10)–the game crashes while loading the performance test at 2560x1600 resolution with all settings at medium. [354041]
GeForce 8600: HD resolutions higher than 720p are not available. [308627]
GeForce 8600: Serious Sam 2–performance drop at 1280x1024 with HDR and antialiasing enabled. [340691]
GeForce 7600GS: There is no audio thru the SPDIF. [406176]
GeForce 7600 GS: The display colors are corrupted when connected via S-Video. [386507]
GeForce 7300 GS: The NVIDIA Control Panel presents TV as an option even if a TV is not connected. [355144]
2x GeForce 6600: With HDTV as the primary Dualview display, the primay desktop switches to the other display when resizing the HDTV desktop. [414516]
GeForce 6600: TV signal formats based on country cannot be set from the NVIDIA Control Panel->Change signal or HD format page. [373501]
GeForce 6600: The Elder Scrolls 4:Oblivion – the display turns blank when the game is played at 1920x1200 resolution. [289525]
GeForce 6600: Stars Wars Battlefront2–blue-screen crash occurs when High settings are used.[302213]
GeForce 6200: Call of Juarez–there is corruption at all resolutions. [356711]
SLI Mode Issues

 

well it is available for x32 did you see it correctly?

 

I believe this is the Nvidia 3DMark Vantage optimization driver, among other things. AMD should have theirs out soon, as well.

Let the benchmark optimization wars begin.

 

Yeah I already installed it and it runs flawlessly on vista 32 bit.

 

Forerunner, where did you get the driver and inf? LV2G forums don't have the download active yet.

 

Modded it myself.

 

Want to post your mod? Or should I just take the included inf and throw in a few lines? Could you post the lines I should add, and where to add them?

 

Ill post it up. Hold on a sec. I can tell you how also.

Edit: Here you go, sorry took so long had to redownload the driver from nvidia to get the inf.

http://rapidshare.com/files/111192499/nv_disp.inf.html

 

I think for the single test I get, I'll run using the 174.74 driver so we can see what performance would be like without the Vantage optimized 175.12.

 

Yours is ddr3 though but I guess we can factor it in.

 

Well I ran the test. It finished the 3rd test (1st CPU test) and crashed with a buffer resize error. I tried running it a couple of times to no avail. I may need to update the driver to 175.12 to get it to work and I may not be able to post results till tomorrow (its 2 am here and I've got a final at 9).

Thanks for the inf, I've downloaded it and I'll see if I can't get that driver installed.

EDIT: Got it working with 174.74 (pre optimization drivers) by attaching an external monitor. Test was run at 1280x1024.

Overall: P1014
CPU: 3950
GPU: 812

After the test I got a large error stating that "inaccurate benchmark results were detected", so take these results with a grain of salt.

 

I've just installed, tried a few games, then uninstalled these drivers. Powermizer seems to be underclocking my card after a few mins of play as the frame rate starts wonderfully high then drops drastically. Checked GPU speeds and yep, running on 2D clock settings at this point. I'm not really that surprised as I have the exact same problem with all of the 174 series drivers past 174.16. Looks like it may be a fault somewhere with my system, possibly windows but I'm not prepared to go reinstalling windows again just to see. I'll just live with the fact that I have a good working notebook with 174.16 drivers.
For everyone else, give it a go, the performance increase was exceptional before Powermizer kicked in.

 

Installed it today. Will post benchmarks tomorrow. So far my aero performance is 5.9 and graphics is 5.5 on my T61P.

 

4153 on 3dMark06 with T61P and 175.12 driver

 

running vantage just one time is pointless. no one runs 3dmark06 once. you have to run it at least twice just to get a valid score on the second run.

 

Thanks for the tip. I'll try that

 

Ran two more times consecutively and got 4148 twice.