Best Drivers for 8600 GT

Can anyone reccomend the best driver to use with my Acer 5920G which has the 8600m GS card and the HD-DVD ?

cheers
Andrew

 

hi, i am using dell inspiron 1520 - 8600M GT.
Previously i was using 169.04 then i switched to 174.70.
I tested it a little, i wonder if its just me, there's a bit of lag.
I am just wondering what is the most suitable driver for me at the moment?
Thx in advance

 

Since you have an inspiron 1520 you can get the 174.31 drivers from Dell. They have worked fine for me plus they are official mobile drivers.

 

will do so, thx

 

i second the kitty lol installed them, but yet to try them out. heard they are decent performers, however.

 

can someone provide a link to those drivers? would they work for a vostro 1500 8600gt?

 

i have some issues... on 174.31 i cant set up my tv display
and, on 174.93 i lose widescreen resolutions other than native..... :S eek

 

175.12 Ftw!

 

I just upgraded to 174.74 on my Vostro 1500 w/ 8600m GT from some crappy 160.03 driver, boosted WEI Aero performance by .2, and gaming graphics by .1. From what I have gathered they are pretty stable, most people prefer them to later ones such as .93

 

Anyone else notice their fan is on 24/7 with the new dell drivers? Kind of annoying =/

 

174.93 here
100 point boost in 3dmark from 169.28
Also the temps went way down in idle. It was idling at 65C with 169.28 and now its ~60C with the 179.93.

This is ofcourse on xp (see sig)

 

Yep. It's the best driver for me since 171.16. Well, 174.74 was good too, but 175.12 is even better.

 

when i am running Titan Quest the fan on my dell 1520 will cycle up and down and there is significant heat being removed for sure. when i am just surfing i hardly notice it.

 

I am looking for driver for 8600 GT for Asus C90s. Now the problem with the Asus notebook is that you cant use the driver available at nvidia and have to ge it from Asus website and there is just a general driver available at Asus website which is down most of the time. Any one has an idea where I might be able to get the driver for vista ultimate 32 bit?

thanks heaps...

 

laptopvideo2go.com

 

175.63 Are the highest performing iv'e used thus far. Iv'e run them through several 3dmark and in game performance benchmarks without any stability issues in the last 24 hours or so. They also fixed some oddball shading issues i was having with a game or two.

P.S I do not overclock so i cannot testify to the drivers ability on that respects.


Driver Link. http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18531

Note for anyone who doesn't know these are actually desktop drivers modified to work with laptops by downloading a modified INF from the same link and overwriting the included one so they are forced to work on your laptop. If you do not know what you are doing i'd probably not reccomend experimenting with them.


As per what laptop i run check my signature.

 

Yeah, I used the link posted above, the driver works.

 

175.12 works fine for me. After installing 175.63 I get 3 BSOD's but I'm not rly 100% sure they was drivers fault.

Checking 175.70 right now.

 

175.63 giving me BSOD too back to 174.74

 

go w/ 175.70

 

dang... everyone is recommending different drivers... I'm using the 174.31 and they have been the most stable and fast for me so far.

 

I say the 175.16s, best drivers for me so far. Alt+tabbing works beautifully.

 

i just always go for the latest whql driver. each driver seems to meet a high standard of stability and each seems to give better performance.

when i was trying to always use the latest driver, stability was inconsistent, sometimes some games would exhibit specific problems...

 

Hm..I browsed through the last ten pages, seems like everyone is using diffrent ones or so. =.=

Can anyone recommend some XP 32bit 8600M GT (DDR2) drivers?
Thanks.

 

I used to use 169.04 and while it was all well the past months I've used it, I wanted to try a new driver. Upgraded to 174.74. It's pretty nice. I don't OC and my games aren't the most demanding, but it is stable and no BSOD so far. I recommend it.

Don't forget to use the Dell inf file.

 

bump.

i just bought a macbook pro (penryn) with a 256mb 8800 gt. any recommendations on which drivers are best for source games?

 

How do you figure out which driver is already installed? I tried looking in DXDiag, but the version there doesn't look like 1xx.xx, more like xxxxx.xxxx.x.xxx or something (I'm not in Windows right now so I can't check exactly). I have a MacBook Pro with 8600M GT and Vista 32bit installed.

Also, how does ista work for games compared to XP? I ran 3dmark06 and got 4400-ish (again, I don't remember exactly) but the site claimed I had an 8600 GS for some reason, rather than GT...

 

Any recommended drivers for my setup? I'm using 177.35 right now with it OCed.

 

Yea, the site says that too for my MBP. To check your drivers, go to Control Panel, click on Device Manager, then double click on your graphics card. Look at the tab above and click on the 'Drivers' tab, which should be the second one.

I think 175.19 are pretty good drivers due to them being WHQL, plus the shader optimizations.

 

Anyone have a suggestion for 64 bit Vista?

 

Probably give the 175.19 a try

 

I just tried to use 175.19 and it told me it couldn't locate any drivers for my hardware. I'm using an xps m1530 with 8600.

 

Use GPU-Z. It lists a bunch of useful info about your video card.

/edit - sorry, I just realized it's PC only. I guess I'm no help to you.

As far as what I'm using, I was using Notebook MobileForce Driver 174.31 for a few months. Not a lot of issues - an annoying bug where my display settings wouldn't be remembered when coming out of sleep mode. I've been using 175.16 for a while now, the display settings bug is gone and they seem stable. I run an Inspiron 1520 w/a 8600M on Vista Ultimate SP1.

 

ok did more tests with 175.19. these are keepers better than 174.31.

 

Have yall seen this? Not sure how true it is. But interesting none the less.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=194&Itemid=47

 

Still using 174.xx series because of problems with the others.

 

It's probably been posted in this thread, but in case it hasn't, Dell released 175.97 WHQL drivers last week.

 

I had problems, BSODs and restarts with these:
171.16
174.74
175.16
175.70
175.75
177.35

I installed and tried two of the original MSI GX700 drivers - both were unstable. But I believe the newer one could be good. Read on.

The only driver that works for now is 174.12 and I believe 174.16. Cannot be overclocked though. Both are stable, no BSODS, and are reasonably fast - TF2 at 1680x1050 runs very fast - well over 30 fps.

The reason that the last MSI driver and some betas might work well too is in connection of my changed routine with the hybrid sleep.

I tracked down the problem back to the Powermizer which in my opinion kills Vista some time after the first (hybrid)sleep. When it moves into some power saver mode after I have put the notebook into sleep it shows BSOD. It is simply bad or at least it works poorly on GX700. It is strange that after the bsod and restart - ATI tool for example cannot see the Nvidia chip despite the chip works and enters 3d at the full speed and everything. The second restart puts everything into normal until the first sleep. So it must be something in combination between Nvidia Powermizer and main BIOS that makes my notebook unstable. Regular shutdown, or hibernate when the computer goes completely off solves this issue for me.


I'll try this logic on some new beta or the official MSI driver and see what happens.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

Best Driver for this set up?

Dell XPS m1530

T7500

8600M GT

Vista 32bit

 

Ive got Asus G2S, Same specs as yours and i'm got driver version 177.39
Got 4660 on 3dmarks and everything runs really well.

 

Good website: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showforum=66

 

what would be the best for me?
Intel Core 2 Duo T8100
and Geforce 8600M GT 512MB DDR2

I really think this thread should have a poll to make matters a lot easier for us.

 

well new drivers come out frequently so a poll would get outdated quickly. It also depends on your specific build and the games you play.

I am currently using the 175.80 drivers everyone was raving about and worked great for demanding games like mass effect and assassin's creed, but for some reason Guild Wars runs horrible. Even at 70C it downclocks like crazy and the game crashes. Ive had mass effect go up to 82C with no problems.

I'll probably switch to the 177 drivers to see if guild wars improves (mind you its a 3 year old game!)

 

75.19 has been great so far for me. Resolutions are a bit different though...

 

i agree with you about new drivers coming out... however, i still see people
using old drivers, does not that makes them the best, at least for them?


thanks anyways

 

the maximum resolution i will game at is 1280*800, at least thats what my
notebook supports

i can not believe that we have to change the driver for every game we play.
that is frustrating...

thank you

 

1280x800 isnt an option when I play Bioshock with these drivers...closest is 1280x720 which does make much of a difference.

 

Sorry for noobishness, running a Dell Vostro 1500, with issues on Call of Duty 4 (Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has recovered), 8600m GT. Dell recommended I install 101.43, currently on 156.69. What is best for me, and most importantly, what will stop my Call of Duty problems? THanks guys.

 

can anyone reccomend a driver for me? I am playing Warhammer Online and CS- my machine is-

Dell XPS1530
2.0 Core 2 duo
8600mGT
WUXGA screen

 

upgrade to the newest dell drivers...
probably 17x.xx