NVIDIA Drivers Ver. 185.85 (May 7th 2009)

Today NVIDIA released new 9xxx series drivers for notebooks. Thought I would throw up a thread about it it where we can talk about the drivers. Are they good or do we need to roll back to other versions. Let's starting writing about them. =)

As for me I'm downloading them right now and after a install will see if I get a boost in 3Dmark06.

 

I've just had a look in the inf. files.

There is no more support for the 280M in the DEll derivers so I guess Dell dropped the card from its testing.

However the card is still present in Arima / Alienware infs. and suprise suprise there is support for it in the HP inf.

 

Wow, just downloaded 185.85 Vista x64 for my Quadro FX 570M.
Can't detect my hardware...
I expect this from modified drivers and INFs from Laptopvideo2go, but not from the NVIDIA site.
Anyone else having this issue?

 

I use it on my mac, and it's been running well!!

 

So after my install of the drivers and a defrag I still got an avg. score of 8351 this is the range of scores I have always been getting. But that doesnt mean much I still gotta see how it works with my games thats the true test.

 

Ok I gamed for an hour, ran 3dmark06 and Dox 185.68 are still the best for gaming.. What I mean is out of all the drivers, Dox 185.68 give me the best preformance. Anyone else agree?

 

I successfully installed the NVIDIA drivers on my P6860-FX with Vista x64 on it. I also have Windows 7 RC on the laptop and tried to install the Windows 7 version of 185.85 WHQL, but the install failed because the drivers didn't recognize my hardware. I did verify that the proper line for my hardware was located in one of the ini files that were extracted by the installation program.

Neither driver seems to have set the software device settings. Even though the containers are defined in the .ini, there are no registry entries because, I assume, values for the variable are not defined. As a result, I cannot customize the performance of Powermizer like I was able to with previous driver versions.

I got the driver to install on Windows 7, not by running the installer program, but by manually updating the driver from control panel. It did seem to perform a little better (on the desktop) than the stock Windows 7 NVIDIA driver. However, I have not tested the driver with any of my games yet.

 

Use the manual method as explained in my guide and select 'nvwi_win7.inf'.

The 'wi' stands for Wistron (Gateway).

 

Thanks, that's what I did. Unfortunately LV2G doesn't have a modded inf available for it yet. So I'm using the stock NVIDIA driver. I can't understand why they would nerf the ini like that and disable all the software device settings in a WHQL driver though.

 

I had the same problem what Starcub explained. Has anyone got the Driver Sweeper working on Win 7 RC?

 

Driver Sweeper works fine.

Starclub: I meant use the official nVidia v185.85 for Notebooks in which case a modified inf is not required.

 

Unfortunately the Wistron version ini file does not include a support line for the 8800M GTS that is in my P6860-FX. The Windows 7 version of nvac does contain the proper line, but the Windows 7 drivers suffer from the same lack of support for PowerMizer. Since my original post I took a look at Dox's earlier (since he no longer is writing optimized drivers) optimized 185.68 ini. The PowerMizer lines are missing from that driver as well.