Lenovo Drivers for GeForce 555 or 285.62 or 296.10

I have a Y570. I read someone saying that the most stable driver was 285.62 but I can't find the thread anymore.

Just wanted to know what is the best driver for you? The latest drivers are a no go for me as they won't play simple games which I run occasionally for passing time such as Solitaire or Hearts and this was installed on a fresh Windows 7 x64 not an upgrade

With that said, which is the best driver for the GeForce 555M?

I want to use the original Lenovo Drivers but when I use them playing videos gives me a lot of stuttering, I use a program called Smooth Video Project along with MPC-HC + LAV Decoders + madVR which gives you super 60 FPS smoothnes while playing videos but it doesn't work with the original nVIDIA drivers only works 285.62 or 296.10

I wonder what's up or why are the original driver so bad.

The reason I want to use the original drivers is that with them I can specify which GPU each and every program will use where as with the later drivers I download from nVIDIA, when I select any of the programs I want such as MPC-HC, the option to select which GPU I want to use is greyed out so I am forced to set the global setting to use the nVIIDA GPU and have to manually switch it to the Auto Select if I am going out and running on battery

I don't know what to do, tough choice....

 

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296.10 for me, Ramzani.

 

I jumped the shark to 301.42, BerryRacer. But, as anyone who reads my posts knows, I seldom use my Nvidia GPU. So I can't really report, on what driver gives you the best performance, on any particular game.

DragonRider

 

296.10 works fine for me, but im on the 301.xx right now and dont see any real difference

 

the 301.xx have a glitch if you run Solitaire or Hearts while having the global setting to run using the nVIDIA chipset they would crach immediately, try it, make the GeForce the active graphics chipset, and set the options in the nVIDIA settings to globally always use the GeForce and see how it crashes. Im back to 296.10

 

I installed 296.10 as they have been the most stable for me and offer the best performance.

But can you tell me something.......

How come if I install the default nVIDIA drivers that shipped with the laptop, I can set ANY program in the nVIDIA settings to run with the HD Graphics or the nVIDIA Chipset.

But with the latest drivers from nVIDIA, I can still set the option to choose which program uses what chipset except for MPC-HC it is greyed out and a few other programs it is also greyed out. Which means I have to choose the Force global setting to use hte nVIDIA Chipset rather than have it on Auto Select and manually choose which programs use what chipset

Anyone know why some programs are greyed out in the later nVIDIA drivers but are perfectly editable with the default drivers?

 

ah yes, you're right solitaire does crash

 

thanks 4 confirming

 

Yuppppyyy! I found a driver that has good performance, no stuttering, and still allows you to select which GPU you want to use in ANY program including MPC-HC *it's not greyed out anymore just like the original Lenovo Drivers*

It's nVIDIA Graphics Driver v280.26 WHQL

 

Hmm...

Just updated to 301.42. Solitaire does crash. But I can set the profile so that it uses the Intel Graphics and it works fine.

Now to try Skyrim.