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    Yes there is 600m series Win7 Drivers at Nvidia.com

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Tinderbox (UK), May 10, 2012.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

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    EDIT: THEY HAVE RELEASED CERTIFIED DRIVERS TODAY 13/09/2012 :)

    Have Nvidia dropped the ball, been checking for a week or two still Zilch, Nada.

    Only Stock Manufacturers driver`s, nothing new from Nvidia.

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), May 10, 2012
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    I was wodering the same thing, I guess we just need to wait..
     
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    Strange how there are ones for Linux, Solaris? and BDS? up to 635m , but not Win7

    John.

     
    Tinderbox (UK), May 10, 2012
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    nVidia is working on a unified driver. Not sure when it's coming out but for now there is only 1-2 versions of stock drivers.
     
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    So what`s an unified driver?

    John.

     
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    And whats wrong with the OEM stock driver?
    They should be based on the 296 or the 301 series, which is pretty much the latest driver for everyone else
    except modified for 600M series.

    The unified driver is pretty much a driver attempt to work with any model with a Nvidia chip regardless of OEM origins.
     
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    Well it`s been three months since i started this thread and still no certified driver only beta`s total fail Nvidia :(

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 11, 2012
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    ive been checking twice a day as well.

    my drivers for the 680 came installed with 302.71 which i cant find on any nvidia page so im guessing they are oem release only.
     
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    The latest Samsung provides for my notebook is 295.55

    John.

     
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    Nvidias new driver is slated to come out around 8/13 according to the secret world. This game is working closely with nvidia because it is the first game to use txaa
     
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    Well they are wrong it`s now 8/15 , how long has the 600m series hardware been out now, come on Nvidia.

    John.

     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 15, 2012
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    i said around.... and 304.79 works very well with all 600 series GPU...
     
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    excited voice alert :D even though it only lasted for about 1 minute

    just tried my daily check on nvidia and up popped loads of august drivers all on one page. i thought i was seeing things so refreshed and it went back to july 3rd drivers.

    so, did someone at nvidia slip up and post them by mistake and then removed them????

    F5 button at the ready. as soon as i know you will know.
     
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    sweet! im stuck at work keep us posted!
     
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    see, i told you i was on the ball.
    just tried again and this mismash of various drivers appeared on the notebook page but as soon as i changed it to 6xx it went blank and then back to the july drivers.

    someone is playing with us. so i guess new drivers could well be iminent :D
     

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    what a tease!
     
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    Is that search not for 200m drivers, we want 600m

    John.
     
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    yeh i know. it resets to 200 as i used it so much with my 260gtx :D
    as soon as something shows in the 2xx it will also be posted in all the others.
     
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    Well it`s 8/21 and still no certified driver`s for the 600m series :(

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 21, 2012
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    new 306.2 beta drivers! 680m finally supported!
     
    watermel0n, Aug 27, 2012
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    Looking for certified driver`s not beta`s the wait continues :(

    John.

     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 27, 2012
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    To be honest I was never bothered even it says beta on there, game profile fixes are being added with the new release of beta often, but not WHQL.
     
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    WHQL is a microsoft windows test... it means literally nothing. a newly released beta driver will provide just as much of an improvement as a newly released WHQL driver 9/10 times
     
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    the WHQL driver is the same exact binaries, it just has gone through the Microsoft WQHL tests. Just use the 306.02 driver. It installs and works great with no inf modifying or anything like that required.
     
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    We have had three beta`s in a row, it must mean something, obviously nvidia does not think it is ready.

    John.
     
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    they are probably waiting to release the WHQL with GW2 optimizations in it considering it is the biggest PC game to come out in since D3. They also are working on adaptive vsync to get rid of that choppy crap in some games
     
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    Well five days short of five months and still no certified driver for the 600m series , I give up :mad:

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Sep 5, 2012
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    680M was supported about 3 or more Beta Drivers ago...
     
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    Guys, I have 650M, as no certified drivers are available, can we install the Beta ones?

    The latest one is 306.02, will there be any problem with Beta drivers or not?

    Thanks.
     
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    306.02 is great. Several users, including me, are running those drivers.
     
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    Thanks. I will go with it then.
     
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    I went back to 304.79 because Firefox was freezing constantly with 306.02. I couldn't be bothered to find a workaround.
     
    LaptopNut, Sep 6, 2012
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    ^^Thanks for the heads up. I am not on any Beta driver currently, running 296.87 Forceware, which is the latest available certified one.
     
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    Tinderbox (UK), Sep 13, 2012
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    I just installed 306.23 but as usual, they needed to be modded (if you are using a P170HM with no official Bios support). Nice to finally see some official Drivers for this GPU though.
     
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    What do you think is the likelihood, if at all, that we might get a BIOS that resolves this in the future?
     
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    They did a Bios to allow the 7970M to work on the P170Hm but only after a huge petition and pressure from the community.

    Since the 680M can already work with a modded inf unlike the 7970M situation, I think they may not bother.

    Only if resellers or a lot of people contact them to resolve this can I see them doing anything about it. However, for the time being, modifying the inf is as simple as replacing your hardware id with another and takes about 2 minutes. You can download the latest in my sig link.
     
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    Yeah, that makes sense. At the same time, I can't imagine it's a big change on their end either in this case. In any event, a small inconvenience for the reward.
     
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    Since all of the unrecognized 680m's seem to have the same ID, it would be trivial for Nvidia to include that in their Drivers. However, I think they would only do so if they heard from a lot of resellers.
     
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