Dox 180.70...thank You Dox

I suggest you guys read my release notes/ changelog over at laptopvideo2go.
If i disabled powermizer i would say i have

 

Dox, if you haven't noticed yet: people rarely read anything on here

 

ok. then it doesn't work for the 9800 series unless it's in non sli mode.
and even in single card mode...it doesn't drop the x16 to x1.

i know it has it, but it doesn't work on any sli 9800m system. well, not sure about the sli 9800m gts since it just came out.

i tried a variety of them and none of them work. including your other folder for sli users starting with your 180.43 drivers.

and yes...i do read the release notes. and the release notes say nothing about why it doesn't work nor why the link doesn't work...unless you have some hidden super secure file i over looked. *LOL*

edit: and to tell you the truth... it could all be a np9200 thing all together meaning... no matter what is in the inf, it will not over ride the bios or vbios of the card in terms of powermizing it fully... (speculation of course) im still working on that theroy...

 

oh splendid, my laptop will be receiving these when he returns!

 

Just downloaded these at a friend's house, and I will be installing them as soon as I get home.

Then I'll try all the new games tomorrow, since I have a week off

 

let us know your experience good or bad.
I read them all and take it into account

 

good to see notebook vendors, and third party sites getting involved here, is a very large community.

 

Will do

Really looking forward to these after reading all these threads

They seemed to have improved performance in all my fave games

I'll report once I've done some solid testing

 

Dox, can you make a non-installer version? because SLI is broken for me, every game's FPS have been cut into half, but ive got to say, the Image Quality is astonishing, ive installed COD4 just to test, and man it looked good.


EDIT: yeah, one more thing, the stutter tweaks you have done did payoff with this version of the driver, although in previous releases they didnt work for me, now if you only could do a none installer version as the older releases

 

whats the usual install procedure for SLI?
I thought you have to run the installer twice?

OK try this:

INstall driver using my installer and nvidia's setup,
then reboot as normal.

Now if the driver doesnt install for the second card:
go to device manager and select the card that does not have the driver installed, and choose to install the driver there as you would for modded inf, and custom forceware 180.70 should pop up as a comptible driver, so choose to install that.

 

well, i got confused a lil bit about the installer, thought the 2 install method wont work for it, will try now and report back.

 

alright, this didnt do the trick, it will always try to install both cards, when i try to stop the first, the whole installation shuts down. there is no way around it but a none-installer version



and anyways, is there someway to contact you? need to talk to you about something...

 

look at my profile in laptopvideo2go for my IM

 

Alright , thank you, i'll still stay on your Version with Single card till a none-installer version is out there, because i'm really Loving the tweaks, in some games i cant feel the difference between the FPS, above 20 all looks the same for me o_0 lovely tweaks mate

 

brainer,

whats the usall way to install drivers to work in sli?
I thought you said a prompt came up to install for two cards and you chose no?
I know people have reported that their cards worked fine on SLI - but those were G92 cards.

I wont make non installer version of my drivers sorry.

 

yes, i have to agree there

we'll do

i was looking for that as well..

install one card and watch the screen go blank. reboot then do a driver update in stall for the first card and it usually will update both cards. then reboot and your done... sort of.

then look for all keys reading "rmdynamicsli" and change them all from 0 to 1. this is so you can go from sli to non sli on the fly. it usually changes when you add a new driver.

 

so to confirm the key RMdynamicsli allows sli on and off without a restart?
is that the exact key.

Unfortunately i do not have sli, or plan to get one in the future, so therefore my drivers is not as compatible with it as i would like it to be.
Alhthough people reported they do work.
If you want better sli support just stick to using pieter's.

 

Hmm... I've got a Vaio Z590 with the switchable graphics, the dedicated GPU being the 9300M, would I be able to install this driver, and still retain my Z series' switchable graphics function without any problems?

I'm very interested to try this out... if I can at all.

 

The installer should be located somewhere in the temps folder. In Windows XP it's "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Temp" and it's in a folder there.

 

i downloaded this driver off of dox's release thread, do i need a modded inf before i install this?

 

No, just uninstall your driver normally and run the installer in the setup files.

 

your drivers work fine for the most part. they just install funny is all. but once installed they work very well.

now if i can help with any of this sli stuff, then by all means give me a direction to go in and i will put forth my best foot to help resolve any issues. pertaining to 9800m series and up.

and if anyone thinks your drivers are not as good as projected...tell them to have a look at the links in my sig. i was using your inf file for most of my records. and the second runner up driver was my stock 176.25 (my stock driver) and a bunch of smooth gaming play as well.

 

ok i just installed the driver but when i was installing, i accidently clicked the powermizer option.. what did i just do? the only difference i notice is tat there is powermizer icon on my desktop.... to get rid of this "option" do i just delete the shortcut on my desktop?

i.e. if i just delete the icon on my desktop i will be back to my normal install?

 

:S...

Does anyone else with a switchable graphics notebook know if this driver will work? :S

I really wanna give this a spin... but I'm not really up for breaking anything on my new laptop. T_T

 

if you READ the text next to the powermizer button.
It says that it will put the powermizer.exe on your desktop.
Its not a shortcut, its the actual file.

 

what if i accidently clicked the powermizer thing, how do i remove it from my computer

i want it to be as if i never clicked on the powermizer thing

 

lol,
just delete it as you would another file.
It doesnt do anything unless you double click it and choose the options that comes up. I'm sure you have heard of powermizer switch: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=273276

I include it with vista since nvidia cant be bothered to implemtent settings in the control panel to turn powermizer on/off like in XP.

Dont worry mate!

 

oh so the powermizer icon is the only thing that changed? so by clicking on that powermizer button all i did was create a desktop shortcut?


so just delete it?

 

hey, just a quick note, I loaded these on my Toshiba X205 SLi1 with SLI 8600gt's, and the install went fine, enabled SLI in the nvidia panel and disabled Pysix, and they've worked great... no issues, and do have to mention that Far Cry 2 looks better than ever with definately no loss of performance... Thanks!

 

So is the consesus to disable Physx or keep it enabled? Is there a difference in performance having it enabled? Of course with a game that utilizes it.

 

Hey guys, can you please point me to the latest DOX drivers? As I can't seem to find the exact ones.

I mean I don't know which ones are his SPECIFICALLY.

Cheers! And by all the things I'm reading, DOX did a really great job, congrats!

 

so by clicking on that powermizer button all i did was create a desktop shortcut?

 

- cdnalsi: please look st doxfromlv2go signature area and you will see his links to his drivers.

-Kraz30g: no, it puts the .exe file on your desktop...which lets just say for the sake of confusion that YES its just a shortcut AS LONG as you dont double click it... to get rid of it just drag it to your recycle bin.

 

from what he said a few posts above, I belive it simply places the .exe file on the desktop, then you use that to change the setting in the registry... it's not a shortcut, it's the file itself.

Also to any wondering, SLI is working great, just tried Lead4Dead and it looks great and runs awesome with these drivers... thanks again DOX.

 

Curious about this as well.... I disabled Physx and enabled SLI on my 8600's, not sure what would happen if I enabled both performance wise. Anybody know?

 

question, when i open rivatuner the top portion (target adapter) - next to the name of my card is still 180.43 (my last driver i was on i THINK) .. but where it has all the driver settings its all 180.70

is this normal?

edit: i just re-installed the driver and the same thing is there.. i hope this is normal, will someone confirm?

 

Uh wow...4 pages talking about powermizer lol, what have we come to

kraz just use nTune 6.03, it is a much better driver and will allow you to set which games get overclocked and what at what clock speeds.

 

no i always use riva, i just want to know if this is normal or something i should look into... is it normal

please read the previous post if you dont know what im referring to.

i just want to make sure this is okay - DOX if your there it would be great to hear if this is normal

 

Cheers, I will try them as soon as I boot into Windows

 

can someone answer my question above so i know whats going on. is that normal

 

wait which ones are the vista 32 bit driver? Link ? I want to make sure I get the right one.

 

when i open rivatuner the top portion (target adapter) - next to the name of my card is still 180.43 (my last driver i was on i THINK) .. but where it has all the driver settings its all 180.70

is this normal?
ive reinstalled twice and same thing

 

Kraz the powermizer icon is perfectly normal no need to worry if that is what you were referring to.

As for the driver settings. Rivatuner will most likely not know of this drive or recognize it as it has not been implemented into the program yet.

W8 for a new update and it should be fine. As long as all the files are 180.70 in the bottom box then you should be just fine.

I am positive next update will fix this problem.

 

Just wanted to show my appreciation for the newest drivers, thanks man. I'm seeing a great performance increase in both Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 on an 8600M GT 512mb. Great work!

 

now working great on left4dead tf2 css on my 8700

thnks mate :]

 

Awwwwww....

Dox must feel so mushy inside right now.

So many people love his drivers lol.

If only he got paid to do this. Imagine what kinda drivers he'd make.

Ah well we can only dream and so can he.

But who knows. Keep em coming DOX

GOD BLESS YOU MAN.


WHO HOOOOOOOOOOO

 

no worries guys.
If i got paid for it, yeah I'd make individualised custom drivers
But I dont want to get paid for it,
and these will always be FREE.

EDIT: all my drivers can now be found in my own section over at laptopvidep2go!!
thanks pieter!!.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showforum=122

 

still waiting on how i can help with the 9800 sli's....

 

what do you mean help?
I dont release newer builds of my drivers to fix individual issues,
So you'll have to wait till next release- whenever that maybe.

 

oh, nevermind. thought you we're looking for beta testers or something like that. my mistake.