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    Nvidia 182.50 drivers or 185.85 for p7805u?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by andros_forever, May 21, 2009.

  1. andros_forever

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    Hello everyone, I have been using the 182.50 drivers from laptopvideo2go on my p7805u and have been getting great performance on all my games and apps. I was wondering if anyone tested the 185.85 drivers and have seen improved performance over the 182.50. I have tried the 185.68 before, and I would get graphical errors on my desktop (horizontal lines flickering in and out) so I uninstalled those and kept the 182.50.
     
    andros_forever, May 21, 2009
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    I don't remember the 182.50 drivers specifically, so if you want framerates or benchmarks, you'd have to check laptopvideo2go...but...

    I'm not liking 185.85--either the official nvidia ones or the Dox optimized ones.
    There appears to be some slight lag from it (while viewing h264 videos using coreavc w/ cuda), and my framerates have been stuttering sometimes in games where I never had problems before (e.g. DOWII). The first time I loaded up DoW2, I also ran into some artifacts, which ultimately crashed the game...but that never happened again.

    On the other hand, a lot of people at laptopvideo2go seem to really like it, especially hybrid graphics users.

    FYI, I'm using Windows 7 x64, Apple MBP, Intel T7700, 8600M GT.
     
    taelrak, May 21, 2009
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    I never got what those Hybrid Graphics applied to. Does it apply to my 9800 GTS on the p7805u?
     
    andros_forever, May 21, 2009
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    I saw that on the nvidia website that 9800 GTS does not have nboost, but has hybrid power management
     
    andros_forever, May 23, 2009
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    I think he ment 182.05
     
    Boomer1979, May 23, 2009
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    i tried a whole bunch including 185.85, the microsoft update windows 7 ones, 180.06 185.20 and the 182.50.

    Out of all of them the 182.50 kick major butt all the others gave bad performance, so for now stick with the 182.50
     
    gselsidi, May 24, 2009
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    When I placed 182.50 after 185.85 I lost over 400 points in 3DMark06, so 185.85 stays........
     
    TANWare, May 25, 2009
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    does anyone know about the flickering that happens randomly with the 185.xx drivers for the 9800 GTS and how to fix it?
     
    andros_forever, May 27, 2009
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    Downgrade your drivers.
     
    iaTa, May 27, 2009
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    It's not so bad that I want to downgrade my drivers just for this little problem... it only happens for 2 or 3 seconds during a whole day using the computer... If there isn't a fix for this I can just live with it.
     
    andros_forever, May 27, 2009
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