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    confused about drivers

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by mcpenguin, Mar 1, 2008.

  1. mcpenguin

    mcpenguin Notebook Consultant

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    I recently updated the 8800m GTX driver in my 9262 to the newest driver posted on the sager site. Felt like it decreased my performance a bit so I went to back to the original (I just use the add/remove feature in XP) and everything seemed to work fine. But XP crashes when it tries to boot up. About 50% of the time it will fail and have to start over. When it does it for the second time it always works but still it should get it on shot. I figured this is obviously caused by the driver change a made. What software would be best for removing nvidia drivers? driver cleaner? Would I have to remove the drivers using add/remove first and then run the program to check if everything is gone?

    Also, what drivers should I be using for XP? With the stock drivers I have good performance in games except for a few graphical glitches every once in a while. So I updated and that seemed to solve the problem but now I feel my fps has gone down slighly (can't really verify this) What is the best driver for me to use? Not sure how laptopvideos2go works it just seems a number of driver versions designed to work with any nvidia card. I really don't know which drivers to use from their site.
     
    mcpenguin, Mar 1, 2008
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    darkoroje Notebook Consultant

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    nVidia driver situation is a bit of a sore point, nVidia does not officially release any laptop video drivers, they say it is up the manufacturer (such as Clevo). They also seem to have several versions of the driver in development simultaneously, so almost every week there is a new beta version.

    The only way to determine which is the best one for you is to try several versions and see how they work. You will need the modified .inf file which is available on laptopvideo2go, together with instructions on how to apply it.
     
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  3. mcpenguin

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    Yea i can definately notice an fps drop with the new sager drivers. I uninstalled the new one and used driver cleaner and reinstalled the stock drivers which improves the fps greatly. But windows still has a hard time booting up and it keeps having to restart and boot a second time. Not sure why it does this with the stock drivers now since it didn't do it before. Any ideas as to what is going on? can anyone recomend a laptopvideo2go driver that will work with the 8800m GTX and XP?
     
    mcpenguin, Mar 2, 2008
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    GanGstaOne, Mar 2, 2008
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