The Defininitive nVidia Driver Upgrade Guide

Well, then what were ya looking for?

 

I've tried the new driver 177.98 and Mass Effect was stuttering a bit so I'm gonna go back down to 177.79 as that's the best one for me so far.

 

POST LINK TO THESE PLEASE

 

Urm it doesn't take much searching as the main links are in my first post:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showforum=94

 

Exactly. In other words, stop being lazy and having everyone else do the work for you. Search works wonders.

 

tried the last one 177.98

IT FIXED MY LOCKUPS..at least it seems it did..5 6 hrs of gaming no lockups...

but dropped my 3dmark to 8500

 

seems like a good bargain 2 me

 

Ok, now this is weird. I went back to 167.46 by accident (Let Windows Update do its thing unattended) and my screen is now much sharper and even a bit brighter and more vivid with the same Digital Vibrance setting as before(177.66). Of course, I lost a couple(3) FPS in the Crysis benchmark and my 3DMark06 went down a bit, but wow, this is worth the loss in FPS.

 

Are you sure the PCP might not have some thing to do with that Dook?

 

It could, however, I've been trying to ween myself off PCP with drain cleaner.

 

i used toilets pucks. same dif though?

 

Dood. I love the smell of UNUSED toilet pucks!

 

i keep one im my pocket at all times. if i make a smelly in public im safe, and the laides love it!

 

I can imagine.

 

nars has all the cool chic moves.

 

when i'm uninstalling the drivers do i "remove all Nvidia drivers, including display" or do i choose the one that doesnt include display.

 

Well the display driver is the most important, don't cha know. Then boot to Safe Mode and check to be sure the "generic vga" driver is installed. Then boot to regular and don't let any driver install on it's own. Then install the driver you want.

 

haha nah i don't know not so much for the software on the comps, more pf a hardware guy. thanks for the guidance though.

 

Driver Sweeper won't work now. When i hit clean it says DS not responding do you wish to close the program. Is this a problem?

 

Try running is from Safe Mode and as Administrator. If you have uninstalled Nvidia already Sweeper may not find anything. That is OK.

 

Why isn't this thread a "sticky"? I get tired of searching for it. Because I always forget to bookmark it.

 

new sound drivers dated 9/17.

IDT_5939

 

Nice spot cheers Skatehouse. Link updated. Rep left

 

do you include drivers found on windows update? if so, then the latest Silicon Image SiI 3531 driver is 1.5.19.1 dated 7/24/2008.

 

OK, I upgraded to the 177.41 drivers about a month ago and started getting BSOD Irq less than or not equal to errors.

When I follow the instructions at the top, as soon as I uninstall the nvidia driver, my screen blanks out and I have to reboot and recover the system from a system restore. Is there any way to make sure the screen doesnt blank out on me as soon as I uninstall the nvidia drivers? I do not reboot after uninstalling, it just goes black.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

try uninstalling from safe mode

 

hey guys. I got my 7811 and downloaded nvidia physics but it says i don't have any geforce acceleration or smth like that. i guess i should install the new drivers but everything works great so far. anyway, i was wondering...as this seems to be a normal procedure for me. If i'd had the driver provided by the gateway site i didn't need any moddified inf right, cause it would be the right driver....i just download, start setup and it upgrades normally...if this is the case could someone upload the original driver update from the gateway site over here? i can't acces gateway.com from ROMANIA(whole country is like...banned...dunno why)....thnaks guys....

 

@CapraSebi - Just download the one in my signature and use that. It needs no mod inf.

 

The physx control panel might be reporting that because you don't have a physx processor. However, NVidia bought the technology some time ago and the 9800GTS in your laptop supports physx without requiring a special processor. IIRC, NVidia didn't start supporting physx in their drivers until about 177.83 (the driver I'm using). Therefore, I don't think the Gateway provided driver supports it. However, I'd recommend that you first go to NVidia's site and download some of the test applications and run them to double check. If they won't run, or don't accelerate the apps, then you'll probably need a newer driver. You can use an official NVidia driver, but you'll need to replace the inf file with a third party modded inf from someone like laptopvideo2go.com.

 

Anyone use install the 178.13 nvidia drivers yet? I did, switching from 177.66. The results were that my 3dMark score went down to 8928. Reinstalled the 177.66 driver and went up to 9312. I'm overclocking my GPU speed to 660 mhz obviously. What gives?

 

Synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark are not ideal for pinpointing GPU performance. In fact, I am running an older driver that scores almost 800K lower in 3DM than my previous one, but gives me 8-10fps higher framerates in most games. I would'nt be too concerned unless your actual gameplay suffers.

 

dont you get it?

 

No need to be an @ss. Just asking for feedback.

 

diablo is just kiddin around. He's generally not one to be an "@ss" to people. Twas a joke, I'm sure.

..And I'm STILL laughin at that pic!

 

It's not really a funny pic being that a few people actually died in that accident supposedly.

 

of course it was a joke!

on another note, i'm about to install the 178.13 drivers and see what my results are with 3dmark06, Bioshock, Crysis Warhead, TF2, WiC, and just about every other game i have installed on this thing.

 

Hey getting a wierd error trying to open the 17813_vista64.exe as archive. Can not open file C:\driver\17813_vista64.exe'as archive.

What does that mean?

 

it sure does!

 

lol!

indeed!

 

sounds like....archive is corrupted.

 

oh my god! LMAO That sh!t in the toilet is freaking disgusting! lol

 

Any other place to download this file thats safe?

 

I downloaded it from laptopvideo2go and it worked fine.

 

Thats where I downloaded it from (laptopvideo2go), will try again.

 

Yeah try again and make sure you get download the one for the right operating system. I'm sure you know this, but as a reminder, make sure you get the nv_disp file and replace the one that comes with the driver download. Their website is usually pretty reliable, at least they have so far.

 

It uninstalled fine now. Do I leave the display driver or wipe that too. I have been told either way is good. Just wondering what the opinion is here?

 

I uninstall the display driver and the nvidia performance drivers. Then I run driver sweeper, restart, then install the drivers, and performance drivers.

 

By performance you mean Ntune and Aegis Physix I assume.

 

Exactly. Not sure if it's required, but I do it anyway.

 

nevermind