Nvidia 191.03 Drivers Available.....

Hey all,

Just installed the latest 191.03 Beta drivers.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7_winvista_32bit_191.03_beta_uk.html

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7_winvista_64bit_191.03_beta_uk.html

This is a beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.

New in Version 191.03

* Adds support for OpenGL 3.2 for GeForce 8, 9, 100, and 200-series GPUs and ION GPUs.
* Accelerates performance in several gaming applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with version 191.03 drivers vs. version 190.62 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
o Up to 12% performance increase in ARMA 2
o Up to 8% performance increase in Batman: Arkham Asylum with GPU PhysX enabled
o Up to 50% performance increase in Call of Juarez: Blood in Bound with SLI enabled
o Up to 14% performance increase in Fallout 3 (indoor scenes) with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 10% performance increase in Far Cry 2 (DX9 version) with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 34% performance increase in Prototype with antialiasing enabled
* Adds SLI support for Darkfall, Dawn of Magic 2: Time of Shadows, Dreamkiller, Fuel, Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, Need for Speed: Shift and more.
* Includes numerous bug fixes, including the following key fix (additional bug fixes can be found in the release notes on the documentation tab): For graphics cards supporting multiple clock states, 3D clocks correctly return to 2D clocks after exiting a 3D application.

New in Release 190/191 Drivers

* Includes support for DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series or higher graphics cards.
* Installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0814.
* Supports NVIDIA 3D Vision Discover, a complete, low cost solution to start your immersive stereoscopic 3D experience. NOTE: If you are using NVIDIA 3D Vision active shutter glasses, you must download the separate 3D Vision driver which includes the driver for the 3D Vision IR emitter.
* Supports CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.
* Supports a new user-controlled power management setting for select GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards (only available on cards that already support more than one power state). This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.

Existing Support:

* Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
* Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects. Learn more here.
* Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
* Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

I needed to use a modded INF file which I got from here :

http://nautisiandesigns.com/drivers/INFs/x32/nv_disp.inf

http://nautisiandesigns.com/drivers/INFs/x64/nv_disp.inf

(Right Click & Save as usual.

Regards Jim

 

I prefer official nvidia MOBILE drivers. Drivers with modified inf suck.

 

They are really not meant for Mobile gpus. Better wait for the whql ones.

 

i agree ill be waiting for the official drivers to be released....

 

they are desktop beta drivers so i wouldnt recommend loading them on a laptop.

 

benson

how is it different from you other driver that you were using.

 

Hey dondadah88,

I was using the 186.81 WHQL drivers before on my M1730.
I was fed up with these drivers because Demigod kept crashing. So I thought I would try these.

From using them so far I havent had anymore crashes, and my idle temps are 56C at the moment which is about the same as before.

In Call of Juarez: Blood in Bound i'm getting an average of 55fps @ 1920x1200 on High Setting. This is about a 10fps increase on my machine.

Havent tried Fallout 3 yet.

P.s I had to install the latest Nhancer Beta Version to stop a xml error occuring

Link for who needs it : http://forum.nhancer.com/showpost.php?p=4492&postcount=18

Regards Jim

 

there's the newer mobile 186.94 from windows update

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/25258-nvidia-graphics-driver-186-94-released/

 

nice...
that's good to hear. 45 to 55fps(around 25 percent increase ) is a big jump no matter what anyone says with just a driver update. (unless sli wasn't supported. then that's a different story)

when you get a chance, please compare as much games as you can. thanks.

you get rep for your OP

 

It is not for every laptops/notebooks.
It is for Lenovo only.

 

people have installed them on other notebooks using different infs, like infs from 186.82, etc.

 

you can use any driver on any gpu(with the excpetion ati with ati and nvidia with nvidia... and off course your device id is placed in the inf.)

when it says it's from toshiba, acer or where ever. it's just that's where they saw the driver come up. it doesn't mean you are limited to name brands.(toshiba, dell, leveno, etc.)

 

Hey all,

Just did a test on Need For Speed Shift with latest patch and I noticed a decent frame increase with the 191.03 drivers

I have included some screens with FPS included.

Before I was getting about 22-35fps depending on numbers of cars etc.

Now as you can see I'm getting about 30fps average with 4xAA & 4xA Filtering









Regards Jim

 

what's your system specs?

 

I have a M1730 :
T9300 (2.5Ghz Intel Dual Core)
4Gig Ram
8800m GTX SLI

Regards Jim

 

nice. stock gpu's correct.


do you also have vantage?

 

Stock m8,

I dont have Vantage, no.

Just been playing around a little more with the settings and all on high 4xAA & 4xA Filtering and with 1650x1080 I'm getting between 35-50fps Usually about 42fps.
So I'll keep those setting for playing.

Regards Jim

 

max it out and drop motion blur completely. that should do it.

 

Couple of shots @ 1650x1080






Tried maxing out with blur off. A little worse.
Looks like those shadows kill the frames a little








Regards Jim

 

I find it funny that in the past, less than 6 months ago, drivers with modded infs were the holy grail of the laptop performance hunters and now suddenly everyone is saying I'm not gonna use them because they were made for desktop... What gives?

 

I think it has been a bit more than 6 months, but the fundamental change is that Nvidia started to release official, WHQL laptop drivers on a quarterly basis. Prior to this, there was a big difference between the latest modded drivers and the latest driver provided by the manufacturer -- some games simply didn't work and others had quirks (e.g. on my laptop, Mass Effect has an extra 40 seconds added to startup and ALT-TAB recovery times with 167.59 which went away with 17X.XX). Today, I really don't feel the need to update them any more often than once every 3 months because the modded ones don't always give better performance and even when they do, it's something along the lines of a couple of FPS and 1-2% of 3DMark06.

 

I'd also like to add this: While it doesn't pertain to gaming, using tweaked drivers can often be detrimental to enjoying HD video. by HD Video, I'm not talking "clicking the HD button on a youtube video", but watching a TV show in 1080p on your computer. I was running tweaked drivers from both LV2G and NBF, and while both yielded 3 to 5 percent improvements in gaming performance, anytime I desired to watch HD video, the first minute to 90 seconds would be smooth, and then after that it would look like a photo slide-show with smooth sound. Initially I thought it was a problem with my browser (Opera), so I tried watching the same HD video on Firefox and IE8. The same results ensued. I managed to trace the problem to "trustedinstaller", which apparently is a program that not only works on the installation of your programs, but also checks your computer for updates and helps to verify that your drivers are "Microsoft Approved". Such suspicion was confirmed in some capacity when I downloaded the standard nVidia laptop driver and while I lost 2 or 3 fps on my favorite games, I was able to watch all the HD video I wanted without any stuttering whatsoever.

While this may not be of paramount importance to those of us who solely use high-performance laptops for gaming, there are some of us who also use our laptops to enjoy media, be it streaming, or from a blu-ray drive. These applications also require input from the GPU, and if the GPU is being bottlenecked due to a tweaked driver not being able to do its job due to a restriction from Vista / Win7, then what good is the driver for non-gaming applications? The idea of improving drivers is undoubtedly a great one, as it pushes the big companies to innovate and refine their drivers, but some attention must be paid to making a driver that not only improves on gaming performance, but is completely useful in day-to-day operations as well, and that's something that until it's fixed, will cause users like me to use the standard driver. Speed in games is nice, but all-around reliability in all of a GPU's tasks are what wins it for me.

 

Same. Doubtless the availability of official drivers has lessened the use of modded-inf ones, but it does seem odd that so many people would refuse to use modded-inf ones now. I've never had any unreasonable trouble with modded-inf drivers, even ones designed for desktop Quadros. The worst driver I've had to date in stability terms is actually nVIDIA's official 185.85 laptop driver, although it may have been partially a victim of what games I was playing at the time it was installed.

I never did update at every release myself. Too much work for too little gain. 3 months-6 months was about right. I'm running laptopvido2go.com 190.89 on XP x64 right now, and Dell 174.31 stock ones on XP x86, which I haven't used much recently and thus haven't bothered to upgrade.