Best Drivers for 8600 GT

I have nibitor and nvflash.

First i read 8600M GT bios into nibitor & save stock bios as oldbios.rom

Secondly i change Advanced 3D values on nibitor (GPU 590(Riva 648)+Shader(Riva 1296)+RAM 472) and save them as a newbios.rom

So what's next????(Make bootable Pen Drive ???....Guide please)

 

Don't flash.. Do driver OC.

 

why all the new drivers have OC bug

 

The new drivers are bugged like a "1000 pound pile of **** trying to fit in the toilet" anyway so just use an older driver.

 

Old Drivers??????
158.45 for me now....What's next???For OC

 

That may be true but bigspin says he has the acer 5920g which is confirmed to have the MXM type gpu.

 

Be advised, if you want to use my hybrid drivers they will only work with XP. However, since your doing the bios flash you can just use regular Vista drivers. I recommend going with the 162.22. I will have the gpu flash tools uploaded in a few minutes.

 

All drivers before the 160 series and up wont have correct overscan compensation and dont show the full screen on HDTV via DVI or HDMI. However, all drivers 160 series and up wont allow overclocking on mobile gpus. If you want the best of overclocking, overscan compensation, and a good driver, you must flash the gpu and go with a 160 up driver, period.

 

Well.. I OC only for gaming and when i want to watch HDMI on my TV i boot up my vista partition with my standard NVIDIA driver. So it aint "period".

How much are u going to hook up your notebook to your external HDMI screen to watch a movie.. Not much, period.

 

Heres the link for the tools needed to flash the gpu:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QPTY9VQR

CAUTION: You need to use an older driver and overlock to the speeds you want to flash to and TEST it first. I recommended letting 3DMark06 loop each test 15 times before flashing the gpu.

 

You know what I meant. I also added the qualifier of "if you want the best of..."

 

Yes i know.. But adding safety with comparing driver OC and flashing and the ability to make OC profiles so u can OC your card with one click for the games that need it and for those that dont u keep your cores standard wich means less usage of your GPU wich could mean longer life i would say don't flash when u don't need too. If someone still wants to flash they should do it.. I wouldn't.

 

XP clean install with 6.14.11.6501 (driver on the XP install guide on this website) = 3491 3Dmark06 at 1280 x 800. Very stable and havn't found a game with any probs yet.

 

Thanks....I know about test b4 flash thing.Currantly I'm @ 590/470 with 158.45 Drivers.I play NFS MW around 2-3 hours without a problem.BTW I'm going bios flash to GPU 580/Ram 470

 

First game i played with those drivers crashed.. FEAR in the second level.

 

With 158.45 u did OC your card on driver level? Thats vista or XP?

 

Okay, is there any driver that NO-one have had the "stop responding" error while gaming on a DELL 1520 with the 8600 GT? I have tried 163.14, the 162.18 and DELL's own drivers and the graphic card drivers crashes about once every 20 minutes in Sims 2 no matter which one.

/Stefan

 

Yes it's driver level OC and I'm on Vista HM Premium

 

if you really want to see if the clocks are stable fire up atitool , press the show 3d view and wait / look at temps ! give it 30 min. Then post results.

I found after the bios mod, that the shaders do not like working above 1200 with atitools 3d view cube. It gave me screen garbage after a few minutes running where 3dmark / games would not after hours.

Also, 160.04 are the last ones to work with driver level oc.

@580 gpu the shaders are above 1200mhz, be carefull

 

So what about GPU 570 and shaders 1160

Hey how to calculate shader clock speed(I mean can't see correct clock on Riva so how can i know correct value to update my bios )

I Run 3DMark06 SM 2.0 & SM 3.0 All the tests @ 590/470 (Repeat 16 Times * 4 Tests)And Max temp is 92C (Day Time)

 

If you are flashing the gpu bios with nvflash and nibitor, the shader clock does not automatically change with the core speed like normal overclocking. You have to manually change it with nibitor when you change the core speeds and memory. I also was not able to get my shader past 1200 without problems. As far as ATi Tool, I would not trust it as everytime ive used it in the present or the past, it has passed test that FAIL immediately in real 3d apps. In other words it would let me overclock to 550 core 600 mem and pass fine but as soon as I run a game or 3dmark it bsods or has terrible corruption. It isnt accurate.

 

Nvidia has a new beta driver 163.44 for Vista and XP x86 and x64. Check it out:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

Ill be looking at it shortly.

 

its downloading sooooooo slow

 

are those drivers for the desktop version the the 8 series, cause i couldn't get it to work on my 1520

 

Sorry about that guys, I forgot you have to mod them. Ill have a hybrid version up in a few minutes.

 

163.44 Beta Hybrid drivers improve my 3DMark06 score by over 100 points. My hybrid 162.50 scored 4206:

 

swoley2k, may I ask where you got those drivers? I looked on laptopvideo2go but I couldn't find them.

 

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

 

how do you do the hybrid drivers? im new to this

 

I'm sorry swoley2k, but I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to nvidia drivers for mobile cards. When I try to install it claims the drivers are not compatible with my hardware.

I assume I need to edit the nv_disp.inf and add something to allow the drivers to be used, could you explain what I need to do? I really don't want to mess up my laptop.

EDIT: Okay, so I simply added all of the lines looking like "%NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0243.1% = nv_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0243" in the .inf's of laptopvideo2go's customized inf files, will this work? It now loads the installer, but I don't want to try to install the drivers before I know I'm doing this the right way.

 

Here read this guide :

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=64910

 

I'm with you but atitool made my desktop screen garbaged and 3dmark/game0s didn't. I'm not talking about artefact scanner, just the 3d view running

 

I guess it can work both ways. I have heard of that before

 

Thanks The Forerunner, someone indeed answered my question in that thread. Basically it was recommended I replace the beta's nv_disp.inf with one of the modified ones from laptopvideo2go.com even though they aren't the same driver version.

 

Hybrid Forceware 163.44

README.TXT:

These drivers are a combination of information from DNA forceware 158.22, Nvidia.com 163.44 beta drivers, and some manually modifications by myself. Tested with C90S with 8600M GT w/HDMI.

Message me with any questions!



Fixes:

PERFORMANCE. These are the best performing drivers. I tested using 3DMark06, F.E.A.R., Oblivion, Far Cry, Battlefield 2142, and Quake 4. Not benchmarks but
actually game play with a keen eye.

HDMI OVERSCAN. These, when used with the provided HDTV overscan instructions, offer the proper displaying of the desktop on HDTV via HDMI.

OVERCLOCKING. For overclocking, you will have to flash the bios of your gpu. This can be accomplished by using nibitor to modify the bios already
on the card and nvflash 5.40 to flash the new clock speeds. Dont forget to change the shader clock as well as the core and mem. Also, dont
forget to backup the bios before you flash. TEST the speeds before you flash by using your stock nvidia driver (101.17) on the driver disk along
with ntune!


Problem:

DVD OR DVD FILE VIDEO TEARING. No matter what driver I use, modified .inf,modifying the .inf, dna drivers, ngo drivers, copying certain files from one version onto another, ANYTHING, I can not get the video tearing to go away when using clone mode with HDMI in WMP. It is a problem that must be addressed at a video driver file level by Nvidia. Using these drivers there along with k-lite mega codec pack 3.3.0,there is no tearing with Windows Media Player Classic and Media Center. If you want to use WMP with a dvd file with no tearing you will have to swap the displays so that the HDTV is the primary display. I also tried every version from 1.35 to 3.3.0 of K-Lite codec pack. This process took me 4 weeks! Trust me, these are the best you will get!

Have fun!

Hybrid Forceware 163.44:
SEE EDIT!

NOW, before you go hollering about "oh no dont flash bios" and "it doesnt need to be flashed", you will HAVE to flash the bios if you want to use drivers newer than 158.22 AND have overscan correction using the included instructions. So if you dont want overclocking or overscan correction on the hdmi out but want newer drivers, then by all means DONT use these. And BTW, if you TEST the overclock for a few hours or overnight before you flash it then you will be safe. Dont bash me for trying to help as ive spent 4 weeks working on the best solution possible. Use it or dont.

Here are the results of my drivers and a clean install of xp. NO tweaks! NO fancy stuff! Just installing windows, all drivers, 3dmark06! CPU at 2.93 and gpu at 530 core 1200 shader 530 mem.

I had to pull the new hybrid driver as it locks the computer up when playing DVD movies or DVD video files in Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player Classic. I have tested possible solutions and the problem lies in the fact that the new 163.44 drivers include Nvidia Pure HD decoding for DVD playback for some of the natually supported gpus. When you edit the .inf file to include a mobile card, somehow the Pure HD part of the driver gets "confused". Disabling any other DVD codecs does NOT work. Therefore, I had to pull the driver due to it not being an effective driver. This problem does not occur with DVD video using the laptopvideo2go download and their modified .inf BUT the video tearing issue fixed with my hybrid drivers returns yet again. In summary, if you want overscan correction, no video tearing, and great game performance go with my Hybrid Forceware 162.50 drivers found here (flash gpu for overclocking):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8W0L0T9W

If you want overscan correction (use my directions in 162.50 download), dont care about video tearing on secondary display, and even BETTER gaming performance, go with the 163.44 driver from laptopvideo2go.com with the modified .inf file.

 

hey swoley, any way you can make these drivers available for vista? ><. its not letting me install them

 

I dont make hybrid drivers for Vista for several reasons:

1. Im not using Vista and dont plan to because of #2

2. The video tearing issue is even worse on vista and occurs in all media players on ALL video files.

3. There is no need for overscan fixes in vista 160 series and up because they already display the correct output.

If you plan on using Vista, just get your drivers from laptopvideo2go.com, flash the gpu (you still have to with 158.45 up), suffer with video tearing, but get correct overscan compensation.

 

I can't get the 163.44 to install,even when using another ini from another driver from laptopvideo2go

 

You really shouldnt copy .inf files from other versions unless you know what files to interchange. You need to edit the .inf file you already have. I believe forerunner put a link up for that.

 

Hey found bios modding guide @ Toms...So i really appreciate if any one read it and confirm me that the guide is correct.If it's correct I'll flash my bios like guide said

Nvidia bios modification/flash/restore guide

 

PLEASE NOTE MY EDIT FOR THE HYBRID 163.44 DRIVERS. DO NOT USE THEM! READ ABOVE!

 

Well, laptopvideo2go hasn't posted the INF. I hope they do so by tomorrow. I want to try the 163.44 drivers.

 

Hi!

I am tired of the " your graphic card has stopped to work blah blah" pauses in my games. I use a brand new Inspiron 1520 with the 8600M GT card and have tried a number of drivers (mainly playing Sims2). Any suggestions for drivers?

I have tried:
162.18
163.14
165.01
DELL default drivers (these worked the longest but I got a lot of those pauses yesterday. Admittedly it turned out that my power unit / transformer had fried and it had switched to battery mid-play and therefore had reset itself for battery use (no AA, for example) so that might have been the cause of the DELL drivers crash).


...And btw I do get a new power unit today, free of charge, obviously. Must have been a lemon...

/Stefan

 

okay so i got my 1520 with the 8600 and vista 32 bit. and i noticed that my fps sucked in css with the factory drivers so i download the 163.14 drives and ran them but then it says it can't find any drivers or something. I just exacted the files onto a foler on the desktop and ran setup and didn't work. So then i uninstalled the current factory drivers and then nothing worked propertly. So i popped in dells recover driver disc and i'm back to square one. Can sombody tell me now to propertly install 163.14 drivers? please?

 

If I remember correctly these do not have a setup.exe file, right?

Go into the Device manager and choose update driver, and choose update from specific location.

/Stefan

 

Anyone know if the ntune tuning thing works with the dell vostro 1500s? It shows the original values all as "0" but it then proceeds to do something anyway.

Also got a message saying it only worked with nforce 2 based chipsets but it didnt stop the test.

 

Hi yall,
a shoutout from Sweden;

I'll be taking delivery of my brand new Zepto 3415w tomorrow, and since I already had a VISTA Ultimate 64-bit dvd i ordered it without the OS installed. Now I'm on the hunt for some drivers for my 8600m gt 512mb, and I'm rather frankly to lazy to read 20 pages of different advice that I'm not ecen sure I'll understand all of.

Since I will be using my laptop for work I can't afford a breakdown, so I basicly need a driver that will give my gaming experience the biggest boost possible without having to learn - what seems to be - the risky hassle of overclocking. Which driver do you recommend for stable, easygoing gaming?

Thanks beforehand!
/Wille

 

The vista32 163.44 beta drivers are excellent. I was previously using the 158.45 drivers, and although I get roughly 3-6 fewer FPS in some games, the improved compatability fixes are worth it. Works fine. There is apparently an improvement in HD video playback too.

 

I cant get the 163.44 drivers to install, even with the modded INF. I have Vista and a 8600M GT. Anybody know what my problem is? It is telling me that the driver isnt compatable with my hardware

 

nevermind i got it, had to restart for some reason