NVIDIA GeForce/Quadro v195.55 Notebook Drivers Released

New official NVIDIA graphics drivers are available for notebooks running a GeForce 8M-200M graphics processor. Quadro equivalents are also compatible.

Links

• Windows XP 32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winxp_195.55.html
  
• Windows XP 64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winxp64_195.55.html
  
• Windows Vista/7 32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win7_195.55.html
  
• Windows Vista/7 64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win7_x64_195.55.html

(Desktop versions of these drivers are available but will not be posted. If you want these drivers, get them at http://www.nvidia.com/drivers.)

 

These are beta drivers.

 

***Ignore****

 

In regards to the driver's digital signature:

The v195.55 drivers are not WHQL certified, but it still seems to be digitally signed though, by NVIDIA Corporation. I verified this in both DXDiag and the Device Manager. No driver signing warning appears when I install this driver. I am running the new driver now, and it's working fine at the moment.

 

According to Softpedia, the 195.55 drivers will be submitted for WHQL certification. I don't know how far this is true.
Softpedia article : http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-NVIDIA-GeForce-195-55-Beta-Drivers-127228.shtml

 

It seems Thinkpads are supported in this release. It's removed from the list of "Unsupported products".

 

Good, hard to determine whether they will improve with regards to temps, or worsen them.

 

Have anyone do the benchmark already?
I am curious of this release. Because from 186.XX to 195.XX is a very big gap.
I think it is WHQL certified because on the website itself doesn't show it is BETA.

 

I have run this driver 195.55 and I got some bugs.
My screen can't be dim with v195.55. XD Cheer.
However, 195.55 did have good performances, still lower than the almightly 186.82 in term of 3Dmark06 benchmarking.
In real games performance(195.55 vs 186.82), I don't see much difference.

 

Since MW2 runs smooooothly on high settings on my lappy. I don't bother with new drivers anymore

 

The brightness does not adjust on my Acer 8930G either

 

Well i guess it wont work here either.. I can only adjust from dark to less dark, with the 19x.xx drivers.. GJ nvidia, you know what you doing!

 

They know exactly what they're doing -- 186.81 (the drivers I get when searching their site) work just fine for me. If you want to use non-WHQL firmware, you should understand that you're testing it rather than using a tested version.

 

Forceware 195.55 is WHQL certified. I checked it using Dxdiag 64bit.
So far, this is the BEST 19X.XX(the other 19X.XX suck!) Driver for my laptop, sad, it bugged up the brightness control. Yet, Forceware 186.82 still the BEST for my laptop with high benchmark, smooth real games play and the brightness can be adjusted.

 

I grabbed these last night, and installed this morning.

The performance seems pretty good, pre-benchmark it seems on-par with 186.81.
I'll do some benchmarks and post back.

Unigine Heaven Demo

186.81
FPS: 19.2
Score: 485

195.55
FPS: 19.1
Score: 482

Very little difference to the 186.81 drivers from Nvidia, but the Hardware Acceleration makes up for it

 

186.82 is giving excellent performance so will wait until full version of 195.55 is released.

 

No they dont, this idiotic brightness problem has been here in all the 19x.xx and this is even a notebook release.. It has nothing to do with WHQL, its just Nvidia who are worthless and cant make drivers..

I wish this god damned laptop had an ATi card..

 

is the brightness issue under vista or 7? also, im assuming all notebooks are affected?

 

I think many(majority?) notebooks are affected.
As you read the comments and feedback on LV2G and here NBR, many notebooks are affected.
195.55 is WHQL-ed I checked it using Dxdiag.
But I guess it haven't fully develop yet, that's why it is problematic even with good performances. Maybe Nvidia forgot to take out the WHQL certified.

 

The brightness levels are fine in 186.81, 186.82, 195.55 for me. However, the 195.39 drivers didn't seem to allow for brightness adjustment.

 

No dimming problems here. Dragon Age Origins has had 4:3 ratio stretched to 16:9 screen, so in-game-movies look a little stretched but the actual gameplay feels a little smoother. Haven't really noticed much else tbh.

 

That's interesting. So if it's a WHQL release, how come it doesn't show up when searching Nvidia's site? I tried looking for 8M, 9M and 200M drivers and in all cases it gave me 186.81. I'm still not convinced this release is intended for public consumption.

 

Yeah, I lost the ability to adjust the screen brightness with v195.55 , back to v186.64

 

I can change screen brightness and powermizer works fine.

Problem is, is the HDTV resizing. With 186.81, I resize the picture so it fits the borders of the LCD, and it stays as 1080p. With this driver and the beta before it (195.38?), I can resize to fit, but by default it creates a custom resolution instead of staying as 1080p. Meaning when I'm playing games, I have to choose the created resolution instead of 1080p, because 1080p is no longer properly resized. I have no idea why they went this route, but I'm sticking with 186.81 until they care of it.

My HDTV might scale well, but there's no reason I shouldn't be using native resolution if my computer can handle it.

 

Because its not whether its WHQL or not that decides if nvidia release it.. You have misunderstood it..

 

Bad release for me and my dv3-2150el with G105M inside.
Konami's ProEvolutionSoccer 2010 crashes out when I try to play it. I had to come back to 186.91 stable release.

 

All current drivers work fine on my 9300m gs. These include the 195.xx and 186.xx drivers. I have no need to adjust the brightness as it looks good to me as soon as the driver is installed. I was using 195.55 but went back to 186.81. 195.55 has higher framerates, but 186.81 is smoother with less framerate drops.

 

I'm going to skip these beta drivers.. they seem to be casuing overheating problems for me so i'll stick with the tried and tested 186.81...