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    Nvidia Verde WHQL 301.42 Notebook Driver

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by MrDJ, May 22, 2012.

  1. MrDJ

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    MrDJ, May 22, 2012
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    Thanks for the heads up!
     
    alexUW, May 22, 2012
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    your welcome. hope it helps :)
     
    MrDJ, May 22, 2012
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    Yeah, thanks, downloading right now for my N50. Yep, i like to keep even the old clunker updated, downloading for desktop as well.
     
    tijo, May 22, 2012
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  5. MrDJ

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    i dont post the desktop drivers any more as i got moaned at when someone loaded the lappy ones onto his desktop. if only he had read the post first :)
     
    MrDJ, May 22, 2012
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    Haha, yeah, was just saying that i was updating both the laptop and desktop drivers. Notebook drivers doing good so far, desktop as well. No issues as of yet, but then again i never seem to get serious issues aside from some broken older games on newer drivers at times. Last time it happened was at least 6 months ago though.
     
    tijo, May 22, 2012
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    Has anyone tried playing BF3 on these? I'm not anywhere I can test it right now, but do you know if these drivers still exhibit the yellow/green roads problem?
     
    Syberia, May 22, 2012
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    People are saying this is actually older than 301.40, 302.59 is the newest.
     
    Patrck_744, May 22, 2012
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    I couldn't find 302.59 WHQL, looks like BETA
     
    alexUW, May 22, 2012
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  10. god_made_me_do_it

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    Has anyone experienced any instability with these drivers? I installed them today and they totally screwed my laptop (clevo p150hm with a GTX560m 1.5gb). Just goes to pink or black or blueish screen once started up, just after desktop loads normally.

    I do have a custom VBIOS running at stock speeds but 0.93v on the top power state as opposed to 1v (I think the dells run at this voltage anyway so shouldn't be a problem - I do it to lower temps). The middle power state is overclocked to 500mhz @ 0.83v so I can get a bit of basic gaming in on battery. No stability issues whatsoever on the 296.10 drivers, even on resource-heavy 3D games.

    The issue appears to be switching power states from what testing I could do - using powermizer manager to have set power states for the battery/mains fixes the problem to some extent but removing the mains adapter crashes it - since that action also coincides with a power state change it leads me to believe there's something different about the way these new drivers manage power.

    I'm aware most people will simply say it's my custom VBIOS's fault but really there's no extreme or odd settings on it, plus I thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone else has a custom VBIOS and experiences the same issues. For now I've rolled back to 296.10.
     
    god_made_me_do_it, May 22, 2012
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    Installed on my macbook w/ a 9400M about 4 hours ago, no problems so far.
     
    awakeN, May 22, 2012
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    Garbage release... Cut my BF3 frames in half on my gt 550m.

    Shogun 2 is down 5 frames as well.

    Haven't had any instability issues thus far, just horrible for games that I play.
     
    Nakano2k1, May 22, 2012
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    Love it so far on my 540m.
    Noticed much better smoothness in my games and the adaptive vsync is pretty decent enough for me to drop the traditional vsync.
     
    Falco152, May 22, 2012
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    Doesn't seem to like my GT 650M as it reports it can not find compatible hardware when I try to install it.
     
    Baenwort, May 22, 2012
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    It's beta but it's a new branch. On Guru3D, you'll see that some users are reporting that 301.40 is giving them the best performance.


    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/573379-clevo-driver-thread-12.html#post8534294

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/573379-clevo-driver-thread-12.html#post8534294

    See if which of these 2 is gonna play nice on your laptop.
     
    Patrck_744, May 23, 2012
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    Both of these seem to link to the same place, dunno if there's another driver but I attempted installing the beta 302.59 drivers there as well and had exactly the same issues with my clevo - crashes completey when I'm running on mains power.

    One weird thing I noticed though is that these new drivers both force my GPU to run at 1v for the main power state - this is despite the fact it's been limited to 0.93v in the VBIOS. 296.10 drops back down to 0.93v max with no problems.
     
    god_made_me_do_it, May 23, 2012
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    Installed these with the usual "clean" way and everything is good so far.
    Good performers and stable with my usual oc of 700/1800.
     
    Kingpinzero, May 23, 2012
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    Baka thinks Baka got a performance drop using this driver :( Baka used to be able to run 3 game clients without lag but now it lags :mad:
     
    Baka, May 23, 2012
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  19. MrDJ

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    oh no, Baka not happy

    so far on the various places ive posted there its a mixed batch of replys but with the same cards. some better some worse.

    % wise a clean install in safe mode seems the best bet so far.
     
    MrDJ, May 23, 2012
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    NO GT 640M/650M support
     
    Kallogan, May 23, 2012
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    Baka did a clean reinstall of the same drivers and now they work wonders. Baka is pleased now :)

    This is for a GTX485M though ._.
     
    Baka, May 23, 2012
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  22. Getawayfrommelucas

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    This is good to know. Thanks Baka ^_^
     
    Getawayfrommelucas, May 23, 2012
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    Baka happy Baka Happy yay :D
     
    MrDJ, May 23, 2012
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    Well, I got the modified INF file and got both version to install using it. However, both versions do not save the power mizer settings and consequently the 650M runs at full speed constantly. Even tried the safe mode and ccleaner tricks.

    I'm going to see if I can find a CD player to copy the original drivers off the driver CD and go back to them.
     
    Baenwort, May 23, 2012
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  25. MrDJ

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    use the link in my sig to get them direct from nvidia. shows the last 10 available.

    me never used mods and never will.
     
    MrDJ, May 23, 2012
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    Just one problem, they won't install on the 650M without moding the INF file.
     
    Baenwort, May 23, 2012
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    ahh, then dont bother updating them until an official whql is released.
     
    MrDJ, May 23, 2012
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    Nvidia drivers are unified, so they will work with any existing and older Nvidia GPU's. I have to modify the INF every time, because Sony dropped the support for my 8400M GT years back.

    If you copy the OEM settings from the original INF, you will be good to go. It takes some time to learn modding the INF properly.
     
    coolguy, May 23, 2012
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    Ahhh, but these are the official WHQL version that support the 600m series!
     
    Baenwort, May 23, 2012
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    This driver supports only the 600M's below.
    GeForce GT 635M,GeForce GT 630M,GeForce GT 610M

    I can help you modding the 301.42 INF if you give me the OEM INF for your GPU.
     
    coolguy, May 23, 2012
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  31. MrDJ

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    thats why i always post the release notes as well. check page 44 onwards
     
    MrDJ, May 23, 2012
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    I have the same setup as yours, MrDJ, except my processor is a Q9000. Can you tell me what's your experience with this driver?
     
    falcones, Jun 2, 2012
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  33. MrDJ

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    tbh i still havnt loaded it yet. its on my desktop waiting.

    not doing anything else now so ill load it. give me 15mins.

    once again something has come up.
    ive just loaded 3dmark06 and vantage as i want to get a reading first as its a new hard drive.
    ill load this driver tomorrow and post back.
     
    MrDJ, Jun 2, 2012
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    thanks, man! i didnt do it yet cause i'm nowhere near my machine.
     
    falcones, Jun 2, 2012
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    readings ive been getting since april


    BETA 301.24 3dmark06 vantage
    12th april 10147 12th april P4427

    NEW HARD DRIVE WHQL 296.10
    2ND june 9253 2ND june P5494

    whql 301.42
    2nd june 10163 3rd june P4502

    rise in 3dmark06 but quite a drop in vantage. i will run quite a few scans today to get an average reading
     
    MrDJ, Jun 3, 2012
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    I went back to the beta drivers because these new drivers are causing my games to crash upon exit. 485m here
     
    Getawayfrommelucas, Jun 3, 2012
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    no crashes at all yet. one thing i have noticed is my hard drive temps have dropped a good 4c
     
    MrDJ, Jun 3, 2012
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    No crashes here as well as I mentioned already with a 485m.
    The user may want to perform a clean removal and install to solve the issues.
     
    Kingpinzero, Jun 3, 2012
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    I did that. It didn't solve anything, I'm pretty stumped
     
    Getawayfrommelucas, Jun 3, 2012
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    i manually clean in safe mode with driver cleaner pro, and then driver sweeper and finally cc cleaner and all 3 cleaners find nvidia crap left behind so your problems could be you only used one cleaner and there is still stuff left that is conflicting with new driver.
     
    MrDJ, Jun 3, 2012
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    I'll try Driver Cleaner Pro to see if that fixes anything.
     
    Getawayfrommelucas, Jun 4, 2012
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    ill try and get a screen shot of the crap thats left by each cleaner next time i update driver.
     
    MrDJ, Jun 4, 2012
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    Ok I did it but I am experiencing the same issues - black screen upon exit. Doesn't matter what game...
     
    Getawayfrommelucas, Jun 4, 2012
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    looks like these drivers arent for you then. you need to roll back to the one before which worked for you.
    strange how it affects some but not all with the sames setup.
    got to be something thats conflicting like other drivers or software.
     
    MrDJ, Jun 5, 2012
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    Well...I was wanting hop off my raid 0 configuration into just a normal configuration so I suppose I will format everything when I do that, reinstall, and hope for the best.
     
    Getawayfrommelucas, Jun 5, 2012
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    Thanks for all the good information, MrDJ! Updating now and running fine.
     
    falcones, Jun 9, 2012
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    your welcome. glad it helped :)

    still running fine for me with no crashes and still getting lower temperatures
     
    MrDJ, Jun 9, 2012
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    I like this driver, it's very stable on OCs'. Although it did set the highest GPU temp. for me since I bought my laptop May of last year.

    On Crysis 2, at 1080p High setting, DX11 and High RT, I set 86*C on my GTX 460M OC at 797core /1697 mem.

    Other games like BF3 TDM multiply at 1080p my GPU only max at 80*C on the same OC or at 810/1650.
     
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    hi everyone.....iam new to this blog......iam having trouble installing my garphic ard update nvidia version 301.42.....for my graphic card nvidia gt 630m....when i try to install it...it says "NVIDIA INSTALLER HAS FAILED"....FOLLOWED BY...."THIS GRAPHICS DRIVER COULD NOT FIND COMPATIBLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE"...IAM NT ABLE TO INSTALL ANY DRIVER FROM NVIDIA SITE....my laptop is recently purchased from DELL....came on 25th june.....and the model is INSPIRON 14R(5420).....and my hardware ids are....ok…now i went to device manager>display adapters>nvidia geforce gt 630m>right click properties>selected tab DETAILS>hardware id>
    1.PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DE9&SUBSYS_055E1028&REV_A1
    2..PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DE9&SUBSYS_055E1028
    3..PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DE9&CC_030000
    4..PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DE9&CC_0300

    It doesnt even install the nvida version 296.xx drivers for 64 bit win7……i’m absolutely sure that i downloaded the correct drivers for the notebook……plz help…!!!!….....also provide INF file which could sort this if need arises for it...
     
    NIKHIL KUMAR, Jun 27, 2012
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  50. MrDJ

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    hi and welcome to nbr
    im not sure about dell laptops as as far as i know they can be fussy when it comes to drivers.
    follow my clean manual install in my signature below using driver sweeper and safe mode.
    i dont deal in modified inf drivers. if you want them then goto laptopvideo2go
     
    MrDJ, Jun 27, 2012
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