Nividia releases GeForce 179.48 for Notebooks BETA Version

Finally after near 2 moths from last release new drivers from nvidia are now available

GeForce Release 179 for Notebooks BETA
Version: 179.48
Release Date: February 11, 2009
Operating System: Windows Vista 64-bit
Language: U.S. English
File Size: 147 MB

x86: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista_179.48_beta.html

x64: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista64_179.48_beta.html

Please tell us your experience with these, as it improves or not your benchmarks (3dmark06 and fps in latest games,etc)

 

Wow they're being really slow about this...

Why don't they just update in sync with their desktop versions? I'll stick to Dox drivers I guess.

 

any1 tried this driver yet?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=352028

Drivers work great for me. Fast, stable, a tiny bit better than the .28 drivers. Thanks nVidia!

 

Driver wont install as-is off of nvidia's site. No idea why not.

 

You are not the first one having problem installing with the 9800M GTX. Dont know any solution though.

 

The 0608 model of the 9800M GTX will not install. My solution was to flash the 0617 vBIOS onto my card, which is a better vBIOS anyways.

 

I just tried the driver and im not impressed. Dox` 185.20 are much better. Got a decrease in all games I tried. Fallout 3 was unplayable on ultra and 20% decrease on DMC4. Movies were more stuttering than ever. Didnt try to hook it up to my TV, so I dont know if they fixed the bugs from 179.28.

Got a nice 3dmark06 score though. Probably the best driver for that purpose that I`ve tried. 3dmark vantage got a lower score compared to Dox` 185.20.

With 179.48, the option to set Physx configuration in the nvidia control panel was missing.

Temps were ok.

 

I'm using it as well. It runs better than of the hacked drivers.

 

I'm using it. Runs great and better than their previous official drivers.

Once they continue updating, I'll be staying with these drivers.

 

runs great for me also best one yet

 

I couldn't update to the 185.20 drivers - install yelled at me and told me I was installing a previous OS's drivers (!) and dropped me to VGA, erm ok. Grabbed nvidia's 179.48, ran that installer - same thing, drops me to VGA. Letting windows just see the drivers in the directory, without installing the rest of nVidia's stuff works and these drivers are perfect. What the hell at the setup screwing up, however? :/ Anyone have this happen with recent drivers?


(XP-32 by the way, uninstalled, rebooted, safe mode in between each install)

 

The desktop drivers are like, what, 5 versions ahead? Why are they so slow with notebook drivers? I want 181.xx for notebooks! I heard 181 and above are optimized for GTA IV, but I am not sure of this...

 

179 is just the code for the notebook series. That doesn't mean the drivers don't contain the same optimizations.

 

nvidia just started doing their own notebook video card drivers and posting them on their site. ain't you in a bit of a rush there cookie?..lol

and as far as driver versions...they don't have to be the same numbers to be update... these are notebook drivers and not desktop....

 

So basically 179.48 for notebooks can have the same optimizations as 181 for desktops?

 

pretty much so...but more for mobiles. so power saving stuff. but basically they use the same profiles. and once you make changes to yours you change the system drivers originals to your own.

 

Yay finally it supports my GPU! Will try this out later.

 

Any word on how this performs for you on XP 32-bit? I am debating giving it a try or not.

 

Since updating to official nvidia notebook driver, I have lost the powermizer option in the control panel and the sleep fonction does not work anymore with keyboard shortcut and half the time it does not wakeup correctly when I do it by start>turn off>standby