Is anyone with an 8600GT using the 169.09 drivers?

Hey guys. I was looking at laptop2go drivers and want to try out some new ones. I have never used anything other than the drivers given to me by the windows "driver update" in the hardware controls.

So my question is, before I accidentally give my lappy a BSoD, is anyone with comparable specs as in my sig using the 169.09 drivers? How are they working?

 

Hey-i have XPS M1730 and used 169.09 with modded inf. they work like a charm-i am getting 40 fps Crysis 800 and 30 fps 1280! I renamed my SLI 8700mGT's to 8800GTX with the modded inf and performance and stability are great-i would hihgly recommend these drivers-or look at nvidia prerelease performance

 

I have dual 8600gt's and use the 169.09. The 1st game I played on this X205 was Bioshock, with stock drivers I had white lines appear once in a while and other minor problems I installed the 169.09 and the problems disappeared. It also gave me a 200pt jump in my 3DMark06 score. I can play Crysis at mostly high some med settings at 1280x800 with 0 problems. Using it for over 2 months now and very happy with it. Make sure to use the "have disk" method for install.

 

cool ty guys.

 

well i installed it without uninstalling the previous driver. seems to work fine.

 

I've been using 169.09 for a while and haven't had any problems with it. I get good, stable performance from them and its overclockable.

 

forgive this somewhat of a threadjacking, but I'm hoping to update my 5920G's 8600M GT drivers...I'm just not sure which I should go with. it sucks, every game I've tried so far has failed and crashed as a level was loading...due to the fact that the last Acer driver for this laptop was released back in June '07!!! I've just been backing up all my stuff as if doing a drive update fubar's anything, I don't wish to lose anything!!!

 

i use the 169.04 drivers which came before the 169.09 ones and they are great

 

Yep, I tested both of em (04 and 09) out, and the 169.04 is better.
(Gives 211 extra points in 3D06 and you'll get like 2fps more in some games).

 

Yeah I am using 169.04 as well. Very good drivers.
Tim

 

camvan i had that fear too ("modded inf" sounds so shady) but i just said "meh" and did it.

 

I use the 169.09 and everything works great. No issues here!

 

VERY recently, someone found that Asus had new drivers specifically for notebook cards, including the 8600M GT - no modded inf needed! I was running 169.04 from laptopvideo2go on my G1S for a month or so, and have just changed to these new drivers (167.49 - yes, confusing I know that the number is lower). They work at least as well as the drivers I was using with all the games I have tested - Doom 3, F.E.A.R, Crysis demo, Half-life 2 + ep 1 and 2.

Link to 167.49 drivers

Also, I see just now that Dell has drivers out specifically for laptop cards as well - but I also see that only a few cards are supported, like the 8700M GT, and not the 8600M GT.

 

ok so i finally did a 3dmark06 test and got 3233 with 154.10 drivers (stock with sager 2090, maybe its 157.10 i forget...) and then did it with the 169.09 and got 3425. woo hoo! performance in tf2 is also a few fps higher!