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    New nvidia 306.23 out!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by shak541, Sep 13, 2012.

  1. shak541

    shak541 Notebook Consultant

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    new drivers are out guys.. just thought ide make a thread about them... im about to test them out myself right now :p
     
    shak541, Sep 13, 2012
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    thanks!!!!
     
    joseph10444, Sep 13, 2012
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    How is it? Is it better than the default driver?
     
    flawless2c, Sep 13, 2012
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    +1

    Please report back, people who have tried this...
     
    Incontro, Sep 14, 2012
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    Nothing seems to be "improved". I think this is a standard Sli profile update driver and also to support the launch of the 660 GTX and te 650 GTX.

    The 650 GTX is officially our cad in desktops. Ofc with higher clocks.

    650 GTX > = 660M GTX
    670 GTX > > = 680M GTX

    :)

    I did a chart (well a copy paste job but good enough) of our card (which includes the 640m GDDR5 and the 650M because they are just lower clocks)

    *click to zoom, it is blurry unless you zoom in :)
    640M GDDR5 -660M GDDR vs 650 GTX, 680M vs 670 GTX

    Unless Wiki is wrong, it also seems like the 600s Desktop support OpenGL 4.3 while ours only 4.2?
     
    L1qu1d, Sep 14, 2012
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    shak541 Notebook Consultant

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    tested out this driver and everything is normal... i didnt really see any increases as all my games ran great from the beginning :p but i can say the driver is perfectly stable even after hours of gaming and everything runs great..
     
    shak541, Sep 15, 2012
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    I saw a few posts on here in regard to
    1. decreased performance
    2. In game crashes
    in recently released/new games when users installed the new driver.

    Going to hold off on upgrading until NVidia sorts out this mess.
     
    Thanatos1, Sep 19, 2012
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  8. shak541

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    which games were you looking to play Thanatos1 ? i play sleeping dogs all the time.. i get a couple crashes.. but i looked around and the game itself is pretty unstable.. any other game.. dirt 3 or assasins creed revelations runs stable with zero crashing..
     
    shak541, Sep 23, 2012
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    Do the updated drivers fix the oversaturated colors in flash videos when going fullscreen? This occurs when hardware acceleration (GPU) is checked.
     
    ssri, Sep 23, 2012
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    I played Skyrim a few times and the first time using the stock drivers I was getting around 33-50fps. Then after a few games it started dropping to 12-25fps. I got the new drivers and ever since they've stayed at the high numbers.
     
    voozers, Sep 23, 2012
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