NP8690 460M GTX Drivers?

Unfortunately I had to order a 2nd 8690 and got one of the new ones with the Nvidia 460M in it. I already have another with the 5870 that I adore.

In any case, I can't for the life of me find drivers that will work/install on this machine for the 460M. Nvidia's site doesn't offer any that will install for the mobile version. The one from Sager that came on disk is a bit old now and even Laptopvideo2go.com doesn't have an INF that works from what I have found.

Has anyone tracked down a modded INF or a place to get the 260.xx driver series for the 460M yet?

Thanks.

 

Have you tried the latest Nvidia drivers? Maybe the mobile drivers now come together with the desktop ones in a single package... Dunno, just a thought.

 

Here is the newest ...

NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.63 BETA

 

I for one would LOVE to see a head to head with both of these machines.

 

As soon as I can get the latest 260.xx drivers working I'm going to run head-to-head on them.

Both are identical specs aside from the gfx card:

Sager NP8690

• 15.6” FHD 16:9 LED Backlit Wide screen (1920x1080)
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-740QM, 1.73-2.93GHz, (45nm, 6MB L3 cache)
• Thermal Compound: - IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
• Ram: ~ 6,144MB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 SODIMMS)
• Optical Drive: ~ 6X Blue-Ray Read/8X DVDRW Super Multi Combo Drive
• Primary Hard Drive: ~ 500GB (w/ 4GB SSD Memory) Seagate XT 7200RPM NCQ Hybrid (Serial-ATA II 300 - 32MB Cache)
• Wireless Network: Intel® Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module

The first one has - ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD5870 1024MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11.

The second one has - nVidia GeForce GTX 460M 1,536MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11

Oh, and I should mention that the 5870 machine has the standard 500GB 7200RPM drive w/o the SSD - that only became available in the last couple months.

Let me know of any specific test results you'd like between the two and I'll post them over the weekend.

 

Quadzilla: the only problem is that the 460M is not supported by the latest nVidia drivers.

If you look at the Products Supported tab, they only list the 480M. When you try to install it's not supported, and the 460M is missing from the INF.

This whole thing is a bit mind-boggling that you can't find an updated nVidia driver for their latest mobile card.

 

Works great on my 460m and there is no modding involved at all just a simple install so there must be something else at play with your cards id ... Other people had noted that the 460m was not supported but again it installed just fine with 0 issues...

 

Interesting. Did you start off with the Sager ones installed (259.xx), or did you uninstall the current drivers, run Driver Sweeper and then do a clean install of the 260.xx?

Also, do you run the installer or use the Have Disk method?

 

I have the Asus G73-JW with the 460m and the only method i used was Uninstalled the old and Ran the exe for the new...

I have done this with both the factory install and a fresh install of Windows without any display driver previously..

Maybe the device IDs are different on your card is the only thing i can think of if its not picking up your card..

 

I was able to get the 260.63 Beta Drivers to work with my W860CU. Don't let it automatically search or select. I browsed to the inf directory and choose the top GTX460M option (there were two to choose from). After installing I am getting a 6.0 on aero graphics and a 6.9 on gaming graphics for the WEI score.

 

yeah, id also like to see head to head with over clocking. Word on the street is 5870s were pulled due to stability problems, but from what i know that was only with Asus, but still sager followed. Clames are the 460 is faster by quite alot when OC'ed. I know the 5870 also OCs 10-15%.

 

Subbing...

 

If your aero is only 6.0 then you know there more perfromance to come when using proper drivers. i do belive that your card will achieve in the 7s in wei.

 

Quadzilla,

This was the only link that worked for me. THANKS!!

 

Thanks for running them head to head

 

I haven't bothered to do this yet. I can only get the Sager provided drivers to install, 260.63 won't install no matter how many permutations of installation I try.

I'm just going to wait for the next driver release and hope nVidia actually supports the 460M in the driver package (right now they are only OEM supported).

That being said, with the ones that came on disk, they scored a 7.0 in WEI and all gaming is fantastic so far. I'll update this once I've benchmarked both with the latest drivers.

 

Any new news on this front - I'm kinda underwhelmed with the drivers that came with the lapy stock...

 

Bump. Where is the support for the 460m? Nividia has posted so many new driver updates, but celvo/sager seem to have dropped the ball.

 

I am looking for a new 460M driver as well, will the drivers from Nvida work.

 

I have the 8690 v2 board with the GTX470m installed as well.

I upgraded from the v1 board with a GTX285m.

Before all this upgrading I had problems finding updated drivers for my machine as delivered from Sager. They were *always* waaay behind on drivers (video, touchpad especially).

Laptopvideo2go used to have instructions on getting newer drivers to work with our hardware. It basically involved downloading the latest nvidia mobile drivers and replacing the 'nvac.inf' file (I think that was the one) in the nvidia driver package with the one from Sager's version. Then installed.

I didn't do that this time. I just downloaded the latest reference drivers from nvidia and they installed fine. So. Dunno.

You might try the file replacement method and see if that will work. But the latest drivers did install for my GTX470m okay as far as I can tell.

S.

 

Thanks for your reply. I'll try your suggestions out later when I have some time to tweak.

Cheers!

 

Just found this from one of the boutique brand's support.

Atmosk's Nvidia Clevo support modded INF's
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/564375-atmosks-nvidia-clevo-support-modded-infs.html