Poll: Do you use Manufacturer or laptopvideo2go drivers?

See above for question.

I personally use manufacturer ones (Dell) right now. I'd tried laptopvideo2go back when I had Vista, but if anything it made my graphics problems worse, so I decided to stick with non-Beta products. Doesn't hurt at all that Dell's actually done a good job of keeping drivers up to date - I have a nearly 20% increase in performance with the March Dell drivers (171.73 I think) over the June ones.

The loss of overclocking doesn't really hurt - 8X Anisotropic instead of 16X. Sure it would be nice to overclock it, but I'd rather have my video card last than shorten its life with overclocking. Maybe in a few years I'll overclock. Got some artifacts with laptopvideo2go drivers in Vista (even stock clock) that scared me though, and didn't go away until I installed XP (even with mutliple Vista reinstalls), so I'm playing it safe for now.

On the other hand, if you can get better performance with laptopvideo2go, more power to you - I just can't afford anything nearly as powerful if something does go wrong .

 

laptopvideo2go (or other custom)

Currently LV2G 175.12 driver.

 

laptopvideo2go drivers for me, currently rocking 174.74

 

manufacturer's. As long as multi on crossfire HL1 runs nice, dont need to risk new drivers.

 

Laptopvideo2go, 174.16 one as the other new ones won't run for more than 2 mins before they stop responding or downclock.

 

I was using the video driver offered by Windows Update, but the latest one gave me frequent BSODs. After using one of the LV2G drivers, no more issues...

 

LV2Go for me, I put up with the occasional BSOD or system freeze for better performance compared to stock manufacturer drivers.

 

174.93 for my xp
drivers are not bad, just read the forums to see feedback or if there are major problems for certain cards

 

Using 174.74 drivers here. Excellent framerates, almost no problems.

5300 points in 3Dmark06 at 1280x1024.

 

Same here.

 

LV2G here as well. Just upgraded from 174.74 -> 175.12, and I'm getting great performance.

 

I prefer using the 'official' manufacturer's drivers. Currently using 174.31 via Dell's downloads.

I despise the hit & miss deciphering of x.x1, x.x2, x.x3...ad naseum of the drivers at LV2G. It's counterproductive imo.

 

If only Apple would release drivers more often for Bootcamp, then I could do that too.

 

laptopvideo2go.com drivers.

 

LV2G. Currently using 174.74

 

167.45 for me.

 

laptopvideo2go, before upgrading to 169.09, call of duty 4 crashes often and framerates are choppy , now it's running like a dream

 

Sorry, but I am kind of confused here.

When referring to the 'video drivers', is it the same as the 'video card driver'?

How do I check which version is it? When I got to dxdiag, my nvidia geforce 9500m gs is running version 7.15.0011.5680.

 

Yes, it's the same.

Your version is the last 5 digits of the long number. So... 156.80
For instance, when I go to device manager, I see 7.15.1 1.6745 but I know it's 167.45 because that's what I installed.

 

Thank you. I just downloaded the 167.45 as well, should I install it now? or should I do a back up first? Also, will performance generally be better than the original one that I have on the computer?

 

Not suprised how many people use LV2G. Ive also only had good experiences with their drivers.

 

Well, it's always a good idea to have your data backed up, but updating your graphics card driver shouldn't cause your computer to crash and be unable to recover (it's never happened to me).

If you're using the stock driver right now, then you should experience a performance increase. It may not be noticeable qualitatively, but quantitatively (through benchmarks like 3DMark06) you should notice an increase in performance.

Make sure you read the guide on installing lv2g drivers from their site...
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11997

 

Also using lv2g infs

Note please, they are nvidia drivers with lv2g custom infs that lv2g sets up to be easier to transport/archive/use.

174.74 right now... 175.16 probably shortly for the release of Conan.

 

175.63 from LV2G.com here

 

LV2G drivers,it`s not a hard choice

 

I'm using the 174.31 dell drivers... they run better and less jittery than 174.16, 174.93, and 175.70 that I've tried.

 

Thank you for the link. It installed fine and there was no problem.

 

I have used LV2G drivers on a lot of review laptops, they are great. I even download drivers from their site for my desktop.

 

I'm using LV2G drivers, of course. I've used several of their drivers since I got my laptop last summer and I've had practically no troubles. I'm not sure exactly what driver I have right now since it works great and I haven't updated in months.

 

LV2G... so far so good.