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    anyone try nVIDIA ForceWare X 185.20 for Windows yet ?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by somhavoc, Jan 8, 2009.

  1. somhavoc

    somhavoc Notebook Consultant

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    good results?
     
    somhavoc, Jan 8, 2009
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  2. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    Yeah it's was pretty decent for me. About equal to 179.28 overall.
     
    Kevin, Jan 8, 2009
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  3. loos

    loos Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is there any consolidated location to find out which drivers people currently like best (or which ones seem to have problems). Or do you just search all the forums over on laptopvideo2go to try and find out?

    Thanks
     
    loos, Jan 9, 2009
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  4. aussiek2000

    aussiek2000 Notebook Consultant

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    Best driver to date for me. Picked up 150 points in 3dmark06.
     
    aussiek2000, Jan 9, 2009
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  5. TehSuigi

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    Eh, I'm not a fan of bouncing around drivers anymore. Last time I tried that, I lost my ability to use a Complete PC Restore (somehow).
    179.28 is fine for me...until later this month when Nvidia releases a new batch.
     
    TehSuigi, Jan 9, 2009
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  6. Kevin

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    I feel the same way. The tedium of uninstalling, cleaning, reinstall, benchmark, uninstall..... I can't take it anymore. Nvidia has finally given me the mobile support I've wanted, so I'm done with all that.
     
    Kevin, Jan 9, 2009
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  7. Tsavonglah1

    Tsavonglah1 Notebook Geek

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    Amen, brother
     
    Tsavonglah1, Jan 9, 2009
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  8. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    it's been good for me. apparently it's the only driver that allowed g86 to overclock since 169.04
     
    tianxia, Jan 9, 2009
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  9. st0nedpenguin

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    No performance difference outside of standard deviation as far as gaming went, just like every other driver I've tried, ever. :|

    Marginal increase in 3DMark though, which just serves to highlight how irrelevant to actual gaming performance synthetic benchmarks can be.
     
    st0nedpenguin, Jan 9, 2009
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  10. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    Not to mention whenever I do that, weird things happen to my system.
    Losing hibernation and sleep...can't restore from a Complete PC Backup...things like that.
     
    TehSuigi, Jan 9, 2009
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  11. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    I found no performance increase at all, both in Vista and XP on my Asus (specs in sig).

    I didn't appear to lose any performance either.
     
    ravenmorpheus, Jan 9, 2009
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  12. roosta

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    got an aditional 120 points in 3dmark06 on a 9200gs. not gamed with it yet though, so i dont know how that fairs in real terms.
     
    roosta, Jan 9, 2009
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  13. matmat07

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    Got some point too, 179.(i forgot) allowed to overclock too.
     
    matmat07, Jan 10, 2009
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