8800M GTX driver ("that does not suck" to steal a famous thread :), 2009

This old thread was legendary:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=223272&highlight=8800gtx+driver

Checking Sager's site the latest drivers are all from early to mid last year.

Theres definately been a few new drivers put out on lv2g and so on, but a lot of people backed off and back and forth, and I lost track.

What is the best overall 8800m gtx driver for our Sagers now?

jeff

(I've not had a problem with my 2008 driver until Dawn of War 2, which is either a bag of crap, or has driver issues like mad; run it and exit, and it'll crash on second+ launches; alt-tab switch out, and you're dead on return, and so on. Very finicky. Heres to hoping a driver update can fix it..)

 

try dox 182.05
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23115

 

instead to wait someone to tell you what driver to install just try the new drivers when they are released because nobody cant tell you what is the best drivers for your needs if you dont test them just try the new drivers

 

Theres a lot of driver trial and error in my experience .. I've had all sorts of issues and so on, and usually they're the same as everyone else. I admit, it is a trifle lame to just rely on the works of others, but .. I'm pretty time constrained (a lot of people are, agreed, I'm not unique there) .. but just hoping theres some folks who can post a version numebr of link and good to go, save me a few hours of backing up drivers, installing, testing, findng out hibernate doesn't wokr, OC doesn't work, mizder problems, only works for this or that machine/bios/etc .. I've no time for it.

(Small baby, working two jobs .. when I get a tiny bit of time, I want to use it well, not screwing with drivers when I can

Thanks to anyone who can help out though, it _is_ appreciated!

jeff

 

I'm also using these drivers.. Really good Then again, like GangstaOne said.. It's not sure that they are the best ones for you.. You only get to know by trying.

 

No disrespect intended, but DOX's drivers are overrated.

 

nvidia has finally started supporting mobile cards. go to their website and download the official 179.48 drivers for 8m series card and you are good to go. this essentially makes all the modified drivers out there obsolete. there is no reason for clevo / sager to support any more drivers now that nvidia has finally started doing it.

 

The official 179.48 drivers are better than Dox's modded drivers?

 

I tried nVidia's official drivers and I could not get them to work properly with an external monitor (neither do the non-Dox 182.20's). I use HDMI-DVI connector from my D901C to a 32-in Panasonic HDTV. Sometimes they would connect to the HDTV, other times they wouldn't. They never could revert back to just the PC. Every time I would unplug the DVI cable (as a last option, even Fn+F7 and Fn+F2 did nothing), the LCD would remain black, but the PC would be okay. I would have to restart. For some reason, the only way I was able to put the screen onto the HDTV was to use the Fn + F7 combination. This only worked sometimes, and was flawed. YMMV

 

As far as no longer down-clocking, I am using Nvidia 185.20 with my 8800 GTX and Windows 7 with no issues. According to TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.3.3, the GPU core clock is running at 500mghz and the memory core clock is at 799mghz.