New nVidia Drivers for notebooks

Justin from xoticpc was kind enough to inform us about the new nVidia beta drivers for notebooks. They're available here, 179.28.

Something interesting is at the optional physXx downloads such as the Unreal Tournament 3 special physx levels.

 

I can now adjust my 9800's clock through nTune. No more bios flashing for me!

 

You can already download v181.00 from laptopvideo2go.com if you want.

 

about time nvidia starts officially hosting and housing laptop drivers.....

sadly this will mean a downturn in business for laptopvideo2go though I fear...
personally I will only use drivers from nvidia now - although I was huge fan of laptopvideo2go it just seems more official from nvidia and everything is in a nice neat install package.

+rep for the find

 

I wasn't the one who found it, Justin did, he mentioned it at the end of Dox's thread.

 

Oh well.... good job either way

 

Dang....nothing for 7950M GTX.....

 

Are these drivers any good?

 

The 181s? No.

This 179.28 is awesome though.

 

I don't think the 181s are too bad actually.

 

i can't install this new 179.28 drivers in my laptop with 9800M GTX...
i dont know what happen...

 

Are you using x64 OS? Because from what I see it linked to a x64 driver.

 

um can you tell us anything?

 

Works great for me. Better than 179.13, and Powermizer is enabled as well so it downclocks to save battery. Not as good as 180.84 though, but stabler so far. No sudden whole-screen artifacts and hardware malfunctions

 

These drivers cause me to drop a couple of FPS in GTA4 compared to the 180.84's.

However, considering the 180.84's caused my comp to lock up when switching power source, and after a reinstall don't allow me to run GTA4 at all, that's kind of academic.

 

The new 179.28 were much slower for me I went back to the 180.84.
Anyone know why I can't use Ntune or even when I go to performance under the Nvidia control panel and accept the user agreement I get the BSOD
I dunno what I got goin wrong

 

These were barely better than the 180.84.1 (quality) in the crysis benchmark. Since the 180.84 have the dox texture tweaks im going back to them since the performance difference is 1fps, but the image quality in Dox 180.84.1 is far superior.

 

Saw improvement with the 179.28's... gonna stick with them (up from 178.13)

 

So how do you go about installing these, just download and install?

I'm curious about the need to remove old versions of drivers and stuff, plus UT3 installs some physx stuff of it's own (AGEIA)

 

my 9800gt is presently overclocked via bios flash, are you saying this will allow me to do a software OC? id much prefer that.

anyone have some benches to compare?

 

I am using Vista 64.

but the driver instalacion has not the file .inf
and the driver can't install in my system

in any case, I read here that the performance is worse than 180.84. so I stay with 180.84

 

Jarinawer, Your card is the first one listed. These don't require an .inf file as they're 'stock' drivers from nVidia and aren't modified in any way. The .inf the other drivers you've used allowed other 'stock' drivers that weren't meant for your card to work on your card.

Could you try uninstalling your current drivers using the methods outlined in other areas of this forum and try installing the new ones?

It's up to you really whether you want to stay with your current ones, or move on.

 

Renovatio...

i removed completly the 180.84 drivers: uninstall, safe mode, driver sweeper, etc.

but when i try install this new 179.28 drivers, it says that my sistems does not have a compatible device (or something similar) and the instalation stops.

 

wooohooo!! no more bios flashing for me either.! about time too!

edit:just tested them and they work very well so far.

 

Hey,

Im having the same issue as renovatio but with Vista 32 and the 9800m gtx. I uninstalled the 181 drivers , then safe mode, cleaned with driver sweeper and rebooted.

When in windows the 'standard vga driver' is now installed. Click the 179 setup and says 'blah blah no compatible hardware'.

Figured I would install 181 again so that the 9800m gtx would show in device manager and tried to re-install over those but still the same error. I looked through the .inf files and they do list the 9800m gtx so im not sure what the problem is.

 

Yeah I'm overclocked via flash also, but this driver still allows core, shader, and memory clocks to be increased or decreased via nTune 6.03, and the adjustments stick. This driver is very stable, and performs on par with the 180 desktop drivers.

I'll be staying with the official laptop drivers from now on folks. Nvidia is finally doing right by us.

 

not as renovatio. as me

i cant install this new drivers. in any case, i have 180.84 and all perfect in my laptop.

 

I'm using these drivers. Everything is functioning smoothly. Desktop, Gaming and Video. If Nvidia keeps this up. I'll stick to official drivers for sure.

 

Oh yeah whoops name mixup...sorry about that.

Still be interesting to know why it won't recognize my card but I guess I'll just use the .inf file from laptopvideo2go.com then.

 

laptopvideo2go.com does not have the 179.28 file inf.
becouse this drivers should work fine with my 9800M GTX or all nvidia notebook cards without any kind of inf.
but does not work (in my laptop)

 

I hate when that happens when things work for some and not others.....

They installed in my np9262 good no problem.

 

do you have vista 64?

me too and I can't install this new driver.
I was thinking that the problem is only with vista 64...

 

I have vista ultimate 64 and it worked fine for me...I just can't figure out yet how to software OC using ntune 6.03. I cleaned and reinstalled the new nvidia drivers and now I can access the performance tab but my clock changes don't take effect and it won't let me touch the voltages.....any suggestions?

 

You can get a different .inf file from laptopvideo2go:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22325

The link above is for Vista64 which you need but I installed their .inf for Vista32 and got these drivers installed now.

 

so I see that the original inf does not support 9800M GTX.
it supports GT and GTS but not GTX.

i can install now the 179.28 drivers but with the inf from laptopvideo2go. (thanks brownstonemr)

i make now some test with 3dmark and games... i will see if it runs better than 180.xx

 

ok, first of all. you need to check to see if it supports your version of the 9800m gtx card. and it could be the substring is not matching yours. if you force flashed your card then it would probably need to be force flashed back(if you didn't do this, then dont worry about it) we can get you up in running. just need to know what you see in the inf file.

all perfect with no over clocking via software..so not perfect.

let me know what your string code is. for instance. mine is 0617

i totally agree

nope! it needs to be the one from nvidia, else you lose the real modified drivers and not just a modified inf file.

you wont be able to mess with voltage. and make sure both of your cards go the same driver as well. lets see if we cant get you right with this.

interested to see your findings though.


vista 32 bit
nvcv.inf seems to have all the 9800m.gtx drivers. so do the have driver method and pick that inf for your card.

 

wow, ive not used ntune before because of the lack for official drivers but im very impressed with the options. specifically the device rules and profile policies.


perhaps someone more experienced with the program can help me understand better. it looks like there are ways to tell the videocard to overclock itself when i launch a game and then go back to normal (or even better underclock) when the game exits, and lower its clock if it reaches a certain temperature. can someone explain how to do it correctly?


I'd love to be able to do this since it will probably save battery life and extend the life of the card in general, is it bad to have the card change clocks constantly like that?

 

have you tried reading the help section yet? it's very informative...lol

 

yeah actually. in the program itself, at least where im looking through F1 the documentation about that part seems sparse. i found a pdf manual online but its for the ntune 5.0 series and the instructions dont seem to be applicable to the 6.0 series

 

it's pretty easy. point and click really.
once you set the sliders you can then save it as a profile.
then you can choose when to activate that profile based on game, temp, program, cpu speed or a few other options. basically what your computer does when you had no control over it...now you can control it. now working under battery conditions could be a bit more challenging...lol

 

Johnksss thx for the help. So I tried installing with the have disk and nvcv.inf and the 'show compatible hardware'. It just lists all the cards and gives the 'not compatible' error with everyone 9800 I selected.

I checked out that nvcv.inf that lists many 9800m gtx cards and also checked GPU-Z. I have a 608 card which is listed. So when installing with the have disk method it will let you proceed after the 'not compatible' error if you choose and install the drivers. I did this and restarted the laptop. Well it booted into the lowest resolution and even though the driver did install and I could mess around with the control panel etc. However I quickly noticed my temps staying higher than usual.

So I uninstalled and and put the 180.84 on. After checking the inf it only shows 608.1 and GPU-Z is showing that the card is 0608 but revision A2. So after seeing 617.1, .2, .3 etc. Im guessing that they haven't included further versions of the 608 cards. Is this correct?

 

ok, then the subsys string is more than likely the problem. (speculation)

let me see your screen shot of gpuz so i can match it with the correct strings.

%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0608.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608&SUBSYS_05771588
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B&SUBSYS_063A10DE
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.2% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B&SUBSYS_09021558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.3% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B&SUBSYS_08601558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.4% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B&SUBSYS_05731558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.5% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B&SUBSYS_04811558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.1% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C&SUBSYS_05731558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.2% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C&SUBSYS_09021558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.3% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C&SUBSYS_08601558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.4% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C&SUBSYS_04811558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0617.1% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0617&SUBSYS_09021558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0617.2% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0617&SUBSYS_04811558
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0617.3% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0617&SUBSYS_05771558


%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0608.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.2% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.3% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.4% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.5% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.1% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.2% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.3% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060C.4% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060C
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0617.1% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0617
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0617.2% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0617
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0617.3% = nv_G8x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0617

and your card is a 0608 not a 0617 so using that really wasn't going to work...sorry..

 

Yeah I think I need a 608 subsys string with a 04811588 at the end. Oh well not a problem to use other modified lv2g drivers until another nvidia mobile release. Not really in need of overclocking this thing just yet .

Thx anyways.

 

I also get a BSOD when I click on the performance tab in the control panel. The system just locks up and reboots. It has happened with multiple drivers including these official drivers, with cleaning before install.

 

all you have to do is open it in a text editor and delete the stuff starting with the & sign
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.5% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B&SUBSYS_04811558
to this
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_060B.5% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_060B

or

%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0608.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608&SUBSYS_05771588
to this
%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0608.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608


save it and then install. this is basically a universal type of install.
just make sure of the code is either 0608 or 060B and it does matter which one.

make sure your using 6.03....

 

I am using 6.03.

Ugh, I had hoped that with the official drivers ntune would work without BSOD'ing and I wouldn't have to bios overclock.

 

and it's 6.03 for xp and not vista32 bit right?
have to ask these things..gotta try to get the easy stuff out of the way first.

 

Also try 6.02, just in case.

 

could work kevin, but not for any sli rig's.

 

Tried 6.02. Same deal. But reinstalled the drivers and 6.03 and somehow it worked... but then when I rebooted to see if the profiled loaded at startup it froze up again when the ntune service started.

Had to rename the ntune exe's in safe mode to be able to get in and uninstall that blight. Heh.

Oh well... stock clocks it is, for now anyway.