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    Anyone running 179.28 official driver on their 7805u?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by ChaosX5, Jan 24, 2009.

  1. ChaosX5

    ChaosX5 Notebook Evangelist

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    Here is the link to the driver:

    http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista64_179.28_beta.html

    According to windows problems and solutions this driver is no good but it is the only driver that works well in games for me especially crysis. I tried all those DOX and modified drivers and they are all very slow on crysis. If anyone is using it could you go to control panel>System and Maintenance>Problem reports and solutions then under tasks click see problems to check then scroll all the way down and tell me if you see "video hardware error". I have about 8 of these and last night I was watching a video and then I got crazy pixels and a big green square in the middle of the screen and then the display turned off for about 3 second and came back saying: "The display driver has stopped working and has recovered". Also I checked HWmonitor and my temps were at 44C and never exceeded 55C so there is no overheating. I also already tried re-installing the drivers and going to a restore point where everything worked fine and that did not help. What should I do?
     
  2. zergslayer69

    zergslayer69 Liquid Hz

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    I'm using the beta ever since it was released. No problems for me. I don't do benchmarks with every driver so I can't say if I've gained 100 points or not, but in terms of real world performance, it's been awesome thus far.