Enough Performance of my geforce8600m?

Some of you might already know that for some reason I couldnt use any driver for my vostros 8600 gt unless it was one from dells homepage.

Anyway I get around 3558 on 3D mark 06 at 1280 x 800 using windows xp and a core 2 duo t7250 , 2 gb ram.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=13033817


I can play call of duty 4 pretty well , unless some levels where you can see a lot of grass.
Do you think I should keep trying to update to 169.04 even though after I did the last time I had just

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http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=13032892

Or should I keep the driver I have now ? , but its unfortunately I cant overclock this one :/

so any suggestions ? or do you think that the 8600 m gt cant do more anyway? , And If the 169.04 driver would actually work how many fps would I get more on CoD4 ?

thanks , and sorry for any mistakes.

 

dude, i don't see any reason on why u don't seem to be able to update to something from l2g.com?! r u doing everything right?

 

if your happy with the preformance then keep it otherwise update

 

Yeah... are you remembering to replace the driver INF with the modded one?

 

I dont see any reason why it wouldnt work either besides the reason that I get obviously less performance!

I deinstalled the hardware in the hardware manager , i used driver cleaner and unrared 169.04 , replaced its inf file and then I used the disk method >_<

 

ok, try omega 169.21 - seem to work really good for me. since u got windows xp, u can check this thread out http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=202165&page=3

i have also posted a modded inf to work with mobile cards

 

Okay thanks a lot dude , this shall be the last time that I am trying to update my drivers!

 

hope dies last. don't give up too early

 

Is this normal for the omega driver ??

1. my video card is called this now ( in the hardware manager) : %NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.1%

2. I can choose a incredible high resulotion even though i have just a 1280x800 monitor.

So , is it actually worth it to try the gaming performance or is it already obvious that something went wrong?

thanks a lot.

 

1)i have the same thing(also shows my card as %NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.1%). i messed something up while copying/pasting stuff lol
2) that's not a problem. i used to have the same thing before, but not anymore(locked at 1280x800)
try the gaming part, of course!

 

I tried Aqua Mark 03 and it wouldnt even start :/ said something about the resolution. I installed my old dell driver now -_-;

*edit* oh any by the way with what settings do u play cod4 ? , i am at my native resulotion 1280x800 , 2x aa , some af , no shadows and the rest on the max/on.

and I can play it pretty well , except for the mission with the grass , the beginnin has in my opinion below 20 fps.

what about u ?