New Drivers X305

A whole bunch of updated drivers are posted on the Toshiba download website for the x305. There's also one for 176.39 mobile nvidia drivers. Just downloaded it all to my desktop and gonna install.

 

WOW! I just downloaded all the driver updates and installed one by one and what an effect! At first I thought no improvement, ran 3dmark6 got 7282, but I started playing Cod4 multiplayer and, like I said at first it feels the same till you keep on playing and I noticed the new drivers are very optimized for the 9700m gts and it keeps the frame rate at a very consistent rate above 30 fps even when a ton is going on screen. Since your eyes can only perceive lag or choppiness below 26 fps, I notice it was so smooth and FAST! Well at least playing Call of Duty 4. Tested for like 3 hours didn't play my other games yet, but now even coming to the internet and trying out my touch pad it's way more responsive and precise! I also think the other drivers put everything in sync and it's like the x305 is firing on all pistons now! Man I knew better drivers would open up the X305 and it's getting the support early. I can only imagine the next updated drivers and the potential being unleashed on the 9700m gts.

 

wait you only get 30 fps? i max everything out and i dont get below 50 fps, so i just take off AA and i get a constant 70-80 fps. if i lower the res to 1280 i get about 100 - 125 fps.

i use the cod4 fps monitor. if it goes below i think 55fps, it goes red and turns really slow. i dont know how you can play on 30, nor know how you get only 30 fps.

for me playing online, i get now a constant 100 fps without aa and reduced res to 1280. i get 125fps when nothing happens and only as low as 80 fps in intense fights online or in campain

edit: i actually have the x300 since i live in canada. its exactly the same, just with a 320gb 5400 rpm hd. thats just weird.

 

Tornbacchus I play cod4 multiplayer with graphics MAXED out aa and all!

I believe I read somewhere that your eyes can't percieve the difference with anything higher than 26 fps. So 30 is the magic number in order to create a believable virtual experience. And I think this driver is optimized to hold at 30 and not to drop below it if possible. As far as getting 100 fps, my and all x305s are capable of doing that but I choose to enable vsync in game which locks it at 60 fps because you randomly lose some special effects if you disable it since the computer is drawing too much frames per second. For an example when shooting the wall sometimes it won't register bullet holes or explosions and tracers will be missing with very high fps and vsync disabled.

Anyway since I'm addicted to Cod4 and tried it on the x205 sli1 with many drivers and now x305 with the stock, 176.18, 177.79 and now 176.38. I notice how much more smooth and fluid this driver performs. It's not about how much frames per second you can get but how consistent it stays above 30 fps. And the 176.38 does it incredibly well, at least in COD4 with graphics settings all high and 4x antialising enabled. Ever since I got COD4 mulitplayer I never experienced it this smooth and fluid consistently. Oh and it stays that way gaming on just battery also. Unplugged! I don't think I'll be downloading laptopvideo2go drivers in the meantime just because I think the modded infs and being unofficial drivers are the cause of downclocking on many a laptop.

Finally I downloaded and installed all the new drivers not just video but updates to the harddrive, drivers for hardware setup and dvd drive, bios update and I guess, put together it just made my system more coordinated.

 

The drivers for the x300 have been available for some days now via Tempro Alerts- although I just haven't found the time to download them and try them out.

 

Maintaining 30fps minimum does indeed usually produce pretty consistently smooth gameplay, but human eyes CAN see more than 30fps.
The human eye is an amazing machine.

Thus your main point about frame-rate consistency is correct, but one of the supporting facts is misled.

What the human eye can detect depends on the sharpness of the image, the level of contrast, individual peoples' eyes, and some other factors.

On an analog TV at roughly 400x300 splotches (they aren't pixels) yeah under 30 fps is fine because the lines are so splotchy and the contrast isn't high enough to make a difference.

On a digital display at 1920x1080 pixels (1080p HDTV) or most computer displays, the lines are MUCH sharper, the contrast is MUCH higher, and thus the motion will seem smoother on more than 30fps and most people's eyes can see this very easily. This is especially true for those using high resolution displays at close range like computer gamers.

 

The point is 30 fps is sufficient in suspending disbelief when trying to immerse an individual in a virtual world, anything below 26 fps and the illusion is broken. I've been gaming on the pc since the 286 processor, but the problem was playing first person programs like Gunship 2000 and the original wolfenstein and also Falcon 3. because it couldn't calculate and refresh the screen at anything consistently over 26 fps. So it was more like a slide show, until I bought a 386 and I could understand how important fps were although that cpu wasn't even capable not till the GPU. Infact cartoons run at 24 fps to create the illusion of movement. Your eyes will BARELY percieve any difference with anything more than 30 fps but it will DEFINITELY percieve anything less than 24 fps and this (the choppiness) is what destroys the illusion of being in a virtual world. And the 176.38 driver seems to optimize and tap the power of the 9700m gts more fully in order to keep it pumping 30 fps on a more consistent basis then anything else I've witnessed with all graphical special effects on playing Call of Duty 4. Definitely a bonus and more to love my x305 GAMING notebook.

 

ok well i maxed out all settings and see what you mean. i stay above 30 fps but average around 40. i still think its choppy, because it just seems laggy.

so what i did was max out the resolution, keep 2xAA on and a few other things. i took off the ragdoll and soften smoke edges. i then maxed out all textures. it looks amazing and i average around 65-70 fps. i cant play below 50 fps because it just seems to run slower to me, especially in fire fights, it needs to be completly smooth.

 

Yeah I know what you mean but I feel compelled to run games the way it was sold, which is all maxed and with the eye candy. And that's why I'm on a mission to find out how I can squeeze every once of potential from this x305s 9700m gts and hoping ppl that have this laptop come up with ways be it updated drivers, overclocking on safe stable settings, or even upgrading the gpu and cpu altogether. I guess the cpu upgrade is already a reality, hopefully in the future one of the owners finds a way or toshiba releases different compatible vid cards like the 9800m gtx to upgrade this notebook.