The Defininitive nVidia Driver Upgrade Guide

must have mixed it with nforce which is/was chipset.

forceware is the current driver and software package for nvidia based gpus, including the geforce line.

the GeForce Release 179 for Notebooks is 123MB !!!

what the he!! did they put there ?

 

They''ll have all the international and manufacturer specific stuff.

 

Opps, I was not thinking

 

Is that official 179.28 any good? Should i change from Dox 180.70?

 

I can't seem to get my hibernate back since I installed new drivers. Even with the new official Nvidia drivers I still don't have hibernate! During sleep mode my generally stay on so I need my hibernate back!

 

you check your power management options? right click the battery icon in the bottom right, if not. (might be obvious, might not. sorry)

 

if that doesnt work, you could try typing this ' powercfg -h on' in command prompt.

 

hello, installing nvidia 179 now. but kinda confused at the first step. when i go to add/remove nvidia drivers, a 2nd window pops up with different options. 1) remove all nvidia drivers including display. 2)remove all except display 3)remove the following only- a. nvidia display b. nividia high definition audio.

so do i remove the nvidia high def audio or not. is it included in the latest notebook drivers?

 

Select 3) remove the following only- a. nvidia display.

 

thnks. after extracting the 179 file, seems like there's 2 folders. 1 for nvidia high def. and 1 for display driver. so i guess i won't mess around with the high def. at all.

 

on number 11 on installation guild, i have many other video card names and it has 8800m gts but not the 9800m gts. Did i download something wrong?

 

What driver did you download?

 

which is the best driver to install at the moment?

p7811 fx

 

What do you mean by "best"?

Fastest in synthetic benchmarks, fastest in real games, best quality in real games etc etc.

Try different drivers out for yourself and see.

 

whats the best driver for performance in games with 8800m gts on vista x64? thanks for all your help. im currently using nvidia's official new notebook drivers.

 

Trust me, i tried many.

Best in Counterstrikesource fps, and World of warcraft..etc

so in other words

BEST FPS

 

Surely you don't need to worry about FPS in CSS and Warcraft?

In those games you are looking for quality mostly.

Try Dox's Customised and install on the balanced setting.

 

well, its kinda cuz with all the original drivers i was getting higher fps then with the new ones.
but ill try to install is on the balanced setting.

thanks in advance. and if you have a msn, or aim, and wouldn't mind pm'ing me it as i have a few questions.

thanks

 

In the games you mention any driver SHOULD run them at well over 30fps. if you liked the original drivers then use them...

 

the official Nvidia notebook drivers are guite good for GTA 4. Picture quality is good even with reduced image settings. I played with 1280x1024 and Medium/Medium. And other sliders cut down. I get around 30fps when running around and 20-24FPS when driving a car, it seems low but it's smooth somehow. I recomend it.

 

I like them too and powermizer doesn't downclock my memory from 990 to 300 anymore when gaming!!! =)

 

Forceware v185.20 are loose. Initial reports are lower temps, but slightly lower fps too.

I'm also a beta tester for Dox now so I'll let you all know about his latest drivers when I get them. He's incorporating nVidia's settings from the official Notebook Drivers into his own. Should be good.

 

I'm a complete noob for this sorta stuff...I tried CoD 4 out with the original drivers and I didn't totally like it, the lighting was meh..and the detailing wasn't the greatest on everything high. So any suggestions if I am going to play CoD 4 and Fallout 3?(Mostly Fallout though )

 

Try any of the drivers on the first page. Try Dox's customised first and see how they run.

 

I tried Dox...but it said something along the lines that I don't have a GPU that it can work with I believe(did this yesterday) so I just installed the latest nVidia drivers :/

 

Just a warning some features are broken in 185.20 as they have been released a bit before their time supposedly. Stick to Dox, XFastest or nVidia GeForce for Notebooks for now.

Zak have you tried a different version yet?

 

Anyone experience any real benefit switching from the X-Fastest 177.85 driver to the X-Fastest 180.70 driver?

 

I could not get the DOX 180.84.1 to install on my P7805u?

 

If no one has tried the X-Fastest 180.70 driver, I guess I'll have a go at it.......

 

I'm using X-Fastest 180.70, no problems so far, my games seem to run a little smoother even (coming from a complete reformat, I was using 179.85 or something around there previously).

 

Thanks BigHops. I've been happy with X-Fastest 177.85, so if no one thinks there is a significant benefit to changing, I think I'll leave well enough alone...

 

I've found the xfastest 177.85 to be the most stable for my 6860fx. Anytime I use a driver that is 18x.xx, my video card will refuse to overclock more than about 5hz using the nvidia performance tools.

 

+rep, I'm hoping this is my problem as well because I have never been able to find any stable overclock. Downloading XFastest 177.85 as I type.

 

Actually the 18x.x drivers are really good. They allow me to OC like i normally do.

 

Every card is different, I'm just hoping he and I have similar cards.

 

I forgot a key detail. My problems with overclocking only happen when I am running Windows XP. When I run Vista64 I never have a problem with overclocking no matter what driver I use.

Yea, I'm pretty sure it is probably card specific. Both my brother and I have 6860fx and whenever we go over the 180 drivers we lose the ability to overclock. On vista overclocking using dox 18x.xx works perfectly fine. It just seems to be a series of wierd bugs that lead to a lack of stable overclocking. Our laptops might have just been in a bad shipment.

 

its most certainly card specific, i never had oc issues regardless of driver version.

 

Yeah the Gateway FX 17 Laptop chasis is the best. IDK if it is just me but the heatsink on my laptop is AWESOME. It keeps the laptop cool even when OCing. I get no diffrence in heat. It just runs really smoother and the temps stay the same.

Just had to add that in because i not able to sympathize with those ppl the have Overheating FX's.

 

Intel Matrix Storage Manager and F6 Drivers Updated to v8.7.0.1007. Always best to use the latest version of these when you reinstall your OS.

 

What are the F6 Drivers? Can you give us a link to ver 8.7?

 

You used to have to press F6 in all versions of Windows up until Vista to install your own SCSI/RAID/SATA drivers at time of setup. You now do it on the Vista drive selection screen but manufacturers (including Intel) still call them F6 drivers.

 

ahhh I see

 

Saying that I just tried these with the latest Win 7 x64 build 7000 and they BSOD'd at setup! Just a warning in case anyone else is trying the beta of Win 7.

 

is the beta public yet???

 

Public beta is being launched today. I couldn't get these new ones working at all so I used the default version included with Win 7 (v8.6.2.7) and my OCZ Core still performs perfectly. Superb.

 

I keep getting this error on my 7805

 

Which driver are you using?

 

http://laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/vista64/181.20

 

Yeah a few other people have mentioned problems with the modified inf's and the 7805. The GPU must have a slightly different hardware ID and Pieter hasn't updated his master inf yet.

Try the official nVidia Notebook drivers instead:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_drivers.html

 

I used Dox's 180.44 and it worked the newest does not at this time