WQHL Forceware 177.35

evryone on laptop 2 go is still saying they are having downclocking issues. i dont want to disable powermiser as this is the wife's system and i want the better battery life.

can someone tell me the best stock non-oc'ed driver right now she will not be overclocking. i am running the dell release 174.31 right now. seems okay so far i just upgraded from 167.xx available from windows update

 

These drivers aren't good.

They are causing downclocking I believe... As TF2 starts slowing down to unplayable framerates about 10 minutes in.

Going back to .23 or whatever.

 

Wow. This is the first driver since 174.16 that DOESN'T downclock on my system. All the others start to downclock after about 30Secs of game play. I haven't disabled PowerMizer either, so right now I'm really happy. Huge increase in dx10 performance in WiC for me.

 

Has anyone tested 177.35 on an SLI laptop with Vista32 Premium?

One problem I found with some of the newer nvidia drivers is a BSOD when attempting to recover from sleep / hibernate mode. As a result, my Dell XPS M1730 is still stuck with v175.16 drivers.

 

I freakin knew it! It`s Vista!
Vista won`t allow me to create custom resolutions for my 7950GTX, I`ve reinstalled XP and man, it flies next to vista.
These drivers are awesome now

 

wll these work on my desktop? with dual 8800gtx's?

 

You are able to write this as your desktop specs in your sig:

Q9450 @ 3.7ghz 1.41v || CPU Liquid Cooled(120mm Rad / Modded AW block) || Evga 780i Sli || 1000watt PSU
Dual Evga 8800GTX Sli @ 650/2000 || 4GB Gskill 1066 CL-5
2 Raptor X 10,000rpm RAID 0 || 2 Seagate 500GB 7200rpm RAID 0
Hanns G 28" 1080p HDMI LCD Monitor 3ms
3dmark06: 19, 129



But.. you are unable to determine if a regular forceware driver will work on your PC?

Let me think about this for a moment.. Something does not compute..

 

hmm installed this on a jfl92 w/ 8600gt and i actually LOST my control panel and my computer. they were on my desktop but i could not open them. like they were removed from the system??? i did nothing else but install these.

used driver cleaner.

had to actually do a restore from a acronis backup i had.. wow that sucked

 

I was wondering because it officially does not support my card being its only for the gt200 and g92 based cards, however i have heard the driver without the physx driver will work and gives a good performance boost, so i was hoping someone with a g80 based card could tell me if it works for sure or not, sorry i made it sound like a dumb question

 

3Dmark comparisons (1280x800, 625/530 overclock)

174.74 - 4604
177.26 - 4668
177.35 - 4666

The 177 series runs Mass Effect extremely well, but Dawn Of War has a very serious stuttering issue with these newer drivers.

 

I can't wait for the 177.39 as they promise a lot of gain in terms of "performance gains" by enabling, through this driver, that whole phyX thing.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/21/nvidia-pushing-out-geforce-physx-support-in-july/

 

Which Dawn of War are you playing?

 

Interesting news, though I doubt it will have much impact if any at all.

 

Haven't tried on my laptop 8600m gt ddr2, but i tried on my desktop 9800gtx and they give an amazing performance increase in vista.

Benched with Devil May Cry 4.

 

Soulstorm. The framerate stays above 60, but the screen lags when I scoll around. I have the issue with both 177 drivers, but not with the lower series.

 

how do these drivers stack up with 174.74?

 

I just tried the 177.39 but I'm having really strange issues with my CPU (T7700) now. It seems to be using 1 only core since I installed the drivers - most noteable my 3dmark cpu score dropped from around 2100 to only 900!

Completely weird I know, I already uninstalled the Ageia PhysX stuff, but it didn't help. Tried some games (UT3 and CoD4) and they run as before or even a little faster, but I'm not sure if they even support multiple cores and thus this issue doesn't have any effect on them.

Anyone else experiencing the same`?

 

xp or vista , as xp can require a bit help to utilize the other cores!

 

I'm on XP Prof, however as I wrote above my 3dmark CPU score was more then double before, so I guess it used to utilize both cores before...

 

Updating to SP3 will fix it.
Or you can apply the hotfix for it.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

 

hey nattfoedd, make sure your laptop isn't in powersave mode. I mean, that's a huge drop.

 

Right now I'm using 169.12 for my 8600M GT. I like them and never given me any problems but I am always up for anything to give better performance. Any ideas on better drivers that are also overclockable??

 

Powersave wasn't enabled, however after changing the RMClock throttling settings I'm getting my old ~2100 CPU score again... Not totally sure if these settings have been changed by the driver, but I can't imagine, so it's still a little strange to me.

 

Mm, strange indeed. I'm going to install these when they become "official." After that, i'll post my results.

 

You guys really shouldn't use 177.39 until the lv2go heads have a few days to test it out for us.

 

I keep an eye on the news section, and usually get them before they`re even uploaded on the site.

 

I have 169.25. What kind of difference will I see?