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    New GT5xxM GeForce Driver for Lenovo Notebooks v296.73

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by lenovodude, Jun 22, 2012.

  1. lenovodude

    lenovodude Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know there is a newer 3xx driver available on nVIDIA however me personally have had bad experience with it along a few users here who have confirmed it has an issue running a simple game such as Solitaire or Hearts which are built into Windows...

    If you set the Global Settings to the nVIDIA GPU using the switch on the bottom righto f the Notebook and in the nVIDIA Control Panel, as soon as you launch these games they crash and you get a Windows Error

    I know probably noone would want to play such a simple game using the nVIDIA GPU but the fact that my nVIDIA GPU can't run such a simple game makes me NOT want to use those drivers...

    So I found these drivers which were published on laptopvideos2go and they are only for Lenovo Notebooks

    So anyone using a GT5xxm can use them safely

    I have i installed them and noticed a 1 FPS increase using Cinebench benchmark

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    Download nVIDIA Display Driver v296.73

    After you download them and run the file, it will automatically extract them to a folder then you can simply run setup from there and choose CLEAN INSTALL to ensure the older or newer driver is wiped completely
     
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    lenovodude, Jun 22, 2012
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