Nvidia Notebook Beta Drivers (179.48)

Just to let you all know, there are new Nvidia Drivers (Notebook Specific) available here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

List of Updates (not necessarily a change log):

* Beta driver for GeForce Go 7-series, GeForce 8M and GeForce 9M series notebook GPUs. Refer to the Products Supported tab for the list of supported GPUs and notebooks. Some notebooks are not supported by this release.
* Supports NVIDIA CUDA technology.
* Supports NVIDIA PhysX hardware acceleration on GeForce 8M and 9M GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v9.09.0010).
* Experience CUDA and NVIDIA PhysX in several free applications and demos by downloading the GeForce Plus Pack.
* Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology* on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL
* Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, and known compatibility issues.

 

sweet. i'll wait for benchmarks though

 

Will this install in my Sony Vaio FZ with 8400M GT (listed in products). But the download page says that sony is not supported. Any way to make install this driver?

 

Hmm...wonder if it is worth upgrading from the 179.28 beta....

 

is it safe to download beta drivers?

 

Same, I want to see some game and temp benchmarks comparing 179.48, 179.28 and DoX's latest 184 drivers

Only then will I decide which one to go with
[Using 179.28 ATM]

It is safe yes.
Many people are using nVidia's 179.28 drivers just fine [including me], and a lot of people do not know that those are also BETA

If you are worried, don't install them though, however there is no ETA from nVidia on when non-beta drivers will be released
Hope this helps

 

179.28 has been the best driver for me, I'll download these when I'm at home.

 

repped OP thanks for the info

 

Laptopvideo2go.com provides a way.

 

I'm backing Nvidia's mobile driver movement 100%, so I'm downloading this immediately.

 

Downloading now, will bench/temp tonight and post results.

 

Hopefully these are good!

 

I found I scored around 200 points more with 178.28 over dox 185.20. Official drivers all the way

 

I'm wondering the same thing.

 

Wondering the same thing.
And for beta drivers, having driver-level OC'ing and WHQL certification is NEVER a bad thing.
Good to see the 7 Series included in this release (and a few of the 100 Series, too!).

 

I don't see any great difference, if at all. Temps are 6-8 c hotter than my current driver. I was using 179.32 HP driver (slightly better performance than .28 and .48, particularly more vivid colors, slight FPS increase) on my HP HDX 8800gts, and reverted back to this driver due to the temp increase on the .48.

 

I have installed on my Sony Vaio FZ through laptopvideo2go.com. It seems to be ok, I have briefly used with COD4 and the performance was slightly better than that of 179.28.

 

I was able to install this driver with my own modded inf. Sadly the WEI score dropped from 5.9 to 5.1 for Aero.

 

That Aero score seems very high for an FZ...

 

WEI is USELESS. Forget about it. It means absolutely nothing.

 

3dmark06 was basically the same, waw felt the same. Seems this is mostly a 7 series fix.

 

What is your's? (if you have an FZ) I was using 167.60 driver (from Sony FTP) before. Also the WEI for gaming increased from 5.3 to 5.4. I know that the WEI is totally useless since it changes scores based on drivers.

All I did was to include the subsys ID of my FZ's 8400M GT in the inf file of the official nvivia 179.48 driver to make it install in the FZ.

 

I get in order: 4.8, 4.8, 4.1, 4.8, 4.6.

I have a: T7100 1.8ghz, 2GB of 667 mhz, 8400GT (128), 120GB 5400rpm.

 

I did not experience any raise in my notebook's temperature. However I did not notice any performance gain either.

 

hp DV9543ev:

5.1 (T7500 2.2ghz)
4.8 4gb RAM 667MHZ
4.9 windows aero
5.3 3d graphics on games (8600GS 256MB)
4.7 seagate ST9120822AS 5400rpm (any way to upgrade FIRMWARE of this?)

i installed the new nvidia driver

 

This seems to have broken EVO (a program I use for video conferencing). Maybe it is because I didn't uninstall the 179.28 driver first? Do you guys do anything special before installing the official drivers?

 

yeah download new driver, then uninstall existing driver it will restart computer then install new driver.

 

I would go even further and run driver sweeper after that initial restart.

 

Yep, this is the best way, as it ensures that all the traces of the previous driver are gone

 

Thanks. I've eventually gotten EVO to work without cleaning; but I've let's see if it is more stable now that I've cleaned it.

 

Anyone upgrading directly from 179.28 can just install right over top of it. No need to clean when installing drivers from the same series.

 

Where did you get the 179.32 from and would you happen to have a link?

 

Find it here.

 

Much obliged.

 

Really, I thought it was always advised to un-install and re-install, or was that only for DoX's drivers

 

Like Kevin_Jack2.0 says, it's only really necessary to 'uninstall, Driver Sweeper, install' with drivers from a different series/generation (example: going from 179.XX to 185.XX).

However, saying this, I always use the driver sweeper method, and haven't run into any problems.

 

I suspect my problem was that I had installed 167.59 on top of 156.xx, then 179.28 on top of that and finally 179.48 on top of everything without ever cleaning or uninstalling so at some point something went wrong.

Anyway, I uninstalled, cleaned and reinstalled so now 179.48 appears to work fine. I checked the temperatures (using Mass Effect and web browsing as load and idle) and they're the same as with 179.28 and similar to 167.59. I suspect these new drivers are almost exclusively for GeForce 7 support.

 

Thanks for clearing that up
I also do the same [better to be safe]

I don't think I'll be upgrading now, I'm happy with 179.28

 

Yeah it's good to clean out all of that confusion. It looks like this driver just added support for more cards. I see 9400M, GeForce GT 130M, GeForce G 110M, and GeForce G 105M.

 

i notice on a fl92 with 8600gt this series shortens the battery life. it for sure drains a good amount faster than with the older drivers (176 series) otherwise these are great

 

Im going to install a clean copy of vista, when I go home then install this new driver...
I bought F.E.A.R 2 to day Limited edition going to play it hole day tomorrow

 

Have fun man

 

Can you quantify that? I have not yet tried using the battery with 179.48, but I've done it with 179.28 and I did not notice a difference relative to 167.59. My JFL92 lasts 3-4 hours either way.

 

i have 179.28 and i will never use non official drivers , the lasttime i tried non official (185.20) it was the worst thing that ever happened to me , i had to hard reset many times
anyway , is there any comparison between .28 and .48 ?? (9600m gt )

 

179.48 is official Nvidia driver, but not WHQL certified though.

 

what's the difference ???
nvidia must provide support because these are their official drivers right ???

 

Yes it is. I just checked with dxdiag.

The official Nvidia drivers aren't that different from the custom ones at lv2go. For example, at the moment, neither of them is very good at supporting sleep for a wide variety of laptops. However, they are WHQL certified and the people who make them have more direct access to the hardware.

 

then why do they say "beta" not whql?

 

Because it's rather difficult to call something a finished product when something as common as sleep results in a BSOD 100% of the time.

 

Hey all, i'm on my factory 176.22 forceware driver for my HDX16. is there a better drive that came after that? any point in me updating? I dont like beta drivers though, thats all they seem to have on their site.

How is 176.22? was it a good driver? should i just keep it?


thanks guys, i havent kept up with this stuff in ages