8800m gtx stalker performance problems...

Hi

I have got standard Clevo M570RU from Novatech (T9300, 8800m gtx, 4RAM,Vista32) running clevo nvidia stock driver 176.25 and been able play all games smoothly (i.e. WIC 1440*900 DX10 very high, 2xaa 16xaf like a dream)

3dmark06: 8500-8600

Until a week ago when I ran Stalker (the first one, v1.06) and with same settings I had between 25-30 fps. So I went to 1280x800 no aa, 4xaf and It didn't improve a thing. So I started to dig on the web and found that benchmarks for my system should be around 50 fps (????)

So I humbly went for advice to lv2g site, but people there weren't very helpful ('Oi... there's another one') I am fairly new to nvidia and completely lost with all those 10.000 drivers for my GPU. I red all stickies and stuff and went for the most popular drivers with highest benchmarks: 178.24

Results: 3dmark06: 7900-8100, gaming performance the same.

Could please someone explain to me which drivers should I get for best gaming performance?

Many thanks

 

With framerates like those for a 8800GTX you should be getting at least ~60FPS like you said at those very low settings. I wouldn't point the finger at any drivers. Since the differences with those are really a few frames concerning games only. But on the topic of drivers, I'd recommend getting the relatively latest ones. www.laptopvideo2go.com has everything like that there.

It might be how you're installing your drivers. Make sure you completely uninstall your vid card from the Device Manager and wipe your cache using CCleaner.

Also see if you aren't getting any memory leaks while the game is running. STALKER is a very finicky game; this happens to people.

Anyways, hope that helps.

 

Thanks very much

I think I will erase the drives totally and have a try with some more recent drivers like 180 series. Although I red that these are made for FarCry 2 and are not other games friendly. I'll have a go anyway

Thanks again