Working Geforce 7400 Drivers in WinXP

Hi guys,

I've been using my laptop for a month now and I've finally found out the source of my memory leakage problem in my svchost (RPC service). It would start at 4MB and increase until 100MB with 15% cpu usage. I tried many things and eventually found out the problem is the NVIDIA Display Driver Service. I was using tweakrus's 94.20 and 97.92 drivers. But when I tried HP's own geforce driver, the latest off their website, version 86.38, it works with the service without any memory leakage. I also noticed that flickering 3-4% cpu usage from csrss.exe and nvsvc32.exe are also gone.

I was just wondering whether anyone else has this problem and found some more recent drivers that can be used. Or whether anyone else has any suggests for stable drivers (like LaptopVideo2Go but I don't know which versions are stable).

Thanks,
Ruibing

 

at the moment im using 165.01 winxp drivers downloaded from laptopvideo2go.com. That runs fine. before that i used 93.81 and 93.82 both of which have the old style control panel. Apparently that bug with the driver service tends to affect later 90 series drivers mostly so i avoided those

 

Oh, so its just the 9x series? Does the newer drivers (since 8x series) have performance improvements?

 

that bug seems to affect 95 series drivers and over mostly. the newer drivers (100+ series) dont seem to have that bug, but i havent had time to test the performance of those new drivers yet. will do when my exams end on monday tho .

I think that the 84.69 drivers were meant to be really good, the real changes in the 90 series drivers were the new style control panel (which most people didnt like) and purevideo hd support. The 165.01 driver im using at the mo has a better control panel than that introduced in the 90 series drivers, and seems stable enough, but i cant give u any indications on performance yet...

 

I got 2019 in 3DMark05 with the 94.x drivers (after defraging with PerfectDisk), while 1896 with the stock drivers from HP. I'm trying to get drivers that has purevideo support, powermixer support, and very good performance. Should I go for the 10x.x or 16x.x series?

 

cant help you there mate. only tried 165.01 and havent played any games on it yet....

 

I tried the 165.x, 100.x, and 9x.x, all have memory leakage problem. So I tried the last 80 series from laptopvideo2go, 87.25, and it works fine. I guess I'm stuck with it for now. But with some tweaks to the driver settings, I got my score to 2032, not bad.

 

i have 86.02, i got a higher 3dmark05 score than the guy that posted above, and i also have powermizer. i installed coolbits to open up overclocking as well. relly helps when needed.

stable as hell, and runs great. cool too.

 

Hmm, you have a slower CPU but a faster HDD. What was your 3DMark05 score? Are you running WinXP? How much did you overclock it by?

 

XTreme-G MobileForce XP 97.92 M4

http://www.tweaksrus.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=822&Itemid=41/

Just had to disable powermizer in nvidia CP and oc ram to nvidia's spec 900 and force constant performance level (3d) in rivatuner and I'm very satisfied with the performance !