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    The Defininitive nVidia Driver Upgrade Guide

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by iaTa, Jun 26, 2008.

  1. mvpprecise

    mvpprecise Notebook Guru

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    Installing the Vista 64 bit 175.80 driver will give you the same error at step 12, but if you apply the fix it will work fine. The driver was from laptop2go btw.
     
    mvpprecise, Jun 30, 2008
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    i keep getting "access is dead" or some sort of read error everytime i click something in the driver sweeper
    i ran 3dmark06 twice and both gave me bad scores as if my graphics card doesnt work
    im a bit paranoid to try running the new drivers again...lol i wonder why it doesnt work
    it installs successfully and everything...
     
    Devilhunter7, Jun 30, 2008
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  3. iaTa

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    I'm not sure if this will change anything but right click on the Driver Sweeper icon and run it as an administrator. Do you have UAC enabled?
     
    iaTa, Jun 30, 2008
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    thank you so much!! yeah i just had to disable uac lol
    this drivers improved fps by quite alot, but im still getting the same 3dmark06 score at around 7000 as the stock drivers. Thanks again!!
     
    Devilhunter7, Jun 30, 2008
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  5. Rotz

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  6. kreidel

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    After sucessfully updating my drivers I am now 500 points lower, why is this?
     
    kreidel, Jul 1, 2008
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  7. iaTa

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    What about actual frame rates in games? I've always gone on the premise that synthetic benchmarks are a bit pointless really - it's real world that counts. I get an extra 5 fps in UT3 with these drivers which actually makes quite a large difference.
     
    iaTa, Jul 1, 2008
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  8. kreidel

    kreidel Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't really game right now. I might start again and I actually bought WiC but I haven't yet.
     
    kreidel, Jul 1, 2008
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  9. Johnksss

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    after installing your fresh new "shinny" (lol) inf file. go to the nvidia control panel
    and check your settings there. move the slider to performance and retest. this is what gages an almost 100 to 700 point increase or decrease in score or in game performance. get familiar with these settings in here and what they do. because they have a vast effect on how your computer will operate.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 1, 2008
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  10. kreidel

    kreidel Notebook Evangelist

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    6951

    Thats up 30 points or so.
     
    kreidel, Jul 1, 2008
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  11. Johnksss

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    did you move any of these...
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    edit: using my desktop at the moment.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 1, 2008
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  12. kreidel

    kreidel Notebook Evangelist

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    No, what do I change in there?
     
    kreidel, Jul 1, 2008
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  13. Johnksss

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    it's all about trial and error.... you have to get in and test it out. if you make mistakes, then click the restore to default and start again. these are the setting most of these inf files change.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 1, 2008
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  14. kreidel

    kreidel Notebook Evangelist

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    I think I am going to go back to original drivers, that way if I never end up gaming I can atleast hold my head up high with my 3DMark score.
     
    kreidel, Jul 1, 2008
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  15. Diablo

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    i was wondering how you had the fan up to 100%... :p
     
    Diablo, Jul 1, 2008
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  16. Johnksss

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    you can control the fan on most desktop cards.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 1, 2008
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  17. Diablo

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    i know this...but i didnt see your edit at first so i thought you were on your laptop.
     
    Diablo, Jul 1, 2008
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  18. mokylim

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    great job rep for ya you ANIMAL!!!LOL
     
    mokylim, Jul 1, 2008
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  19. kreidel

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    What 3DMark06 scores are you people getting with the stock configuration?
     
    kreidel, Jul 1, 2008
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  20. Johnksss

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    i wish we could control that laptop fan...lol i have been looking, but haven't found anything as of yet
     
    Johnksss, Jul 1, 2008
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  21. Johnksss

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    my stock setting are in my profile. far right
     
    Johnksss, Jul 1, 2008
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  22. kreidel

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    9234? How much did the CPU upgrade help?
     
    kreidel, Jul 1, 2008
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  23. Johnksss

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    on that paticular run...200 points more. if i would have ran it with a 2.5 or 2.6 it would have grabbed about 200-300 points lower than it is now. scores change with different speeds. i ran it a 1.6ghz and grabbed a 7k score on stock.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 1, 2008
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  24. eekamouse

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    Not sure, if I will get into trouble, but "bump".

    This should be stickied. It will save alot of people time I think :)
     
    eekamouse, Jul 3, 2008
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  25. Darthsnipe

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    Great guide...someone should sticky this because it works and is very very "intuitive".
     
    Darthsnipe, Jul 3, 2008
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  26. schoolboydj

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    Where can I find my Nvidia control options to increase vibrance?
     
    schoolboydj, Jul 5, 2008
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  27. Johnksss

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    right there in adjust desktop color settings.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 5, 2008
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  28. iaTa

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    Right click on the desktop -- NVIDIA Control Panel -- Adjust desktop colour settings
     
    iaTa, Jul 5, 2008
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  29. schoolboydj

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    Eh. You're gonna have to break it down for me. I don't know how to get into the Nvidia settings
     
    schoolboydj, Jul 5, 2008
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  30. schoolboydj

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    Thanks animal :) Where can I install that driver you mentioned? PhysX
     
    schoolboydj, Jul 5, 2008
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  31. royk50

    royk50 times being what they are

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    mokylim, Jul 5, 2008
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  33. Johnksss

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    it will install, but it wont activate physx geforce driver.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 5, 2008
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  34. mokylim

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    so in short.is useless with the 8800gts then?

    special thing to note when using driver sweeper is to clean it TWICE. after using clean the first time i checked and some of the items that were cleaned were unticked.so i did a clean again and saw that there were several things drivers sweeper didnt pick up the first time.
     
    mokylim, Jul 5, 2008
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  35. Johnksss

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    yep. useless for the time being.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 5, 2008
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  36. mokylim

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    k thanks john. btw, where can i D/L 3dvantage wanna try it out. :D
     
    mokylim, Jul 5, 2008
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  38. iaTa

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    I thought you said it worked on XP?
     
    iaTa, Jul 5, 2008
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  39. Johnksss

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    it said it installed, but i didn't have any physx games or apps to prove that it actually worked work. and the one i tried wouldn't even run. and you cant run 3dmark vantage with xp because it's only for vista. and since xp is no longer my main os, i just left it at that till they have it running under vista.
     
    Johnksss, Jul 6, 2008
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  40. bifnewman

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    does any1 know when nVidia releases the updated drivers that support physx? I really want to play the UT3 Physx mod and Warmonger when my laptop arrives on the 10th or the 11th
     
    bifnewman, Jul 6, 2008
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  41. iaTa

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    Within the next month supposedly.
     
    iaTa, Jul 6, 2008
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  42. predatorramboxxx

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    with default drivers i got 105 fps in css
    with these i got 160 thanks so much
     
    predatorramboxxx, Jul 7, 2008
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  43. iaTa

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    Main post updated with PhysX tweaker (still no working drivers for G92M though).
     
    iaTa, Jul 10, 2008
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    whats the fastest driver for a nvidia gefirce 8800m gts???
     
    alexlm, Jul 13, 2008
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  45. iaTa

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    177.41 have been the fastest for me in actual games. I'm not a fan of synthetic benchmarks.

    177.66 have just been released however so I am going to give those a try now. Have also updated the first post to include these.
     
    iaTa, Jul 13, 2008
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  46. alexlm

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    thx for this guide animal! helped a lot! I am waiting for the physics for the 8800m gts! :D
     
    alexlm, Jul 13, 2008
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  47. iaTa

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    Guide has been updated with instructions of how to use the Gateway OEM inf file 'nvga.inf' if it is included with the driver (as it is with 177.66).

    Running 177.66 with Gateway OEM inf right now and they seem pretty good.
     
    iaTa, Jul 14, 2008
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  49. iaTa

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    The lv2g inf has been created by Peiter from lv2g and has custom tweaks and settings. The Gateway OEM inf has been created by nVidia specifically for Gateway laptops. I prefer to use the Gateway inf and then tweak the driver options manually in the nVidia control panel if required.
     
    iaTa, Jul 14, 2008
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  50. alexlm

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    ok thx, what driver do you thick its faster, 177.41 or 177.66??? I usually play crysis...
     
    alexlm, Jul 14, 2008
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