My discoveries on Vaio Z’s Hybrid Graphics

Yep I use nvidiaInspector, which works fine. 595x1180x820 works nice. When I go up to 600 I get artifacts.

 

Changed to MSI Afterburner, seems better.

Although, I'm wondering if the system changes display cards properly. I tried unhooking the power supply, and was monitoring both 330m and Intel HD card via GPU-Z, and both GPU-Z and the battery time indicated that it was still using 330m during battery time.

Anyone understand what I mean, and have answer/confirmation on this?

(My 3-state button is on "Speed" constantly - assumes no interaction here is needed?)

 

If you put your switch on speed, your Nvidia card is always used; On stamina, the intel card is always used. Only on auto doe sthe auto sitching between Nvidia and intel occur when disconnecting the power plug or connecting hdmi

 

Why do you use an external software to overclock your gt330... it's possible to do that on the nvidia panel of 260.x!!!

 

my 330m is running 615 /1353/800 perfectly stable.

650 core gets a bit unstable and same with 825 memory.

Im using Evega precision.

 

Where? Can't seem to find it.

Chulz- Thanks I know But I was under impression that the "new" 260.63 driver were Optimus = No need for the button. Nautis? Someone else confirm/deny?

 

Nope the latest 260.63 are just working the same as your current graphics drivers do. Switching and all is the same as it was.

 

Ahh, thanks for clarifying and sorry for being lazy (not reading the full 69 page thread!)

 

there's a thread on optimus for the Z11 though, but there are issues with the available drivers (overlay and nvidia card not powering down properly)

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/469747-sony-z11-nvidia-optimus.html

 

I wonder if there is any difference now that the official verde drivers has been released for laptop gpus

NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.89 WHQL

 

The verde drivers has a different structure so I can't seem to get them to work on my Z if someone could be so kind I would be happy. thanks

 

I got the new verde drivers installed, by copying the crucial nvidia driver files from the verde pack on top of the modded 260.63 drivers (and manually driver signing them).

 

Mind writing a step by step? Are you using the BIOS hack?

 

The installation is 100% the same as the 260.63 posted on page1, so follow that guide.

I am uploading the modded 260.89 drivers with the 260.63 installer now. (It will take a bit time, sorry.)

EDIT: Here is the link for the drivers:

http://rapidshare.com/files/425932030/Nvidia_verde_260_89_w_260_63_installer_thomaskc.rar

Remember to sign the 2 files mentioned in the 260.63 guide on page1 AFTER you install these drivers, but BEFORE you reboot. (TEST mode has to be enabled)

here is a screenshot of my nvidia control panel:



P.S And NO not using the hacked bios, everything is standard sony.

 

Nvidia nTune from Nvidia site...

 

But i don't see any improvement overclocking my gpu...
i test it on dolphin emulator (fps remains the same)...

 

Dolphin is somewhat more CPU-dependent, so overclocking the GPU will not improve speed in dolphin at all.

 

it worked! thank you sir.

 

Your welcome.

 

Thanks... i didn't know :-(
Anyone know how to overclock our Z cpu?

 

OT: In which games are you running into trouble? Perhaps we can open a new Z gaming thread including dolphin. I can share my performance tuning settings. I expect you to know that you can run dolphin smooth on a i7-980x @ 4GHz. You will never get there with the current Z. OC'ing of the Z's CPU is not possible as I know.

 

Yes... i know :-(
But i want squeeze my z for best performance...

 

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but not seen by me.

I am using a similar set up with 2 Dell 22" monitors running through an HP USB DisplayLink adapter so I end up with 3 screens running which is great! Although I haven't had the problems described above I am having another problem.

All goes well till I shut down and disconnect. When I re-start without being hooked up to DisplayLink I have lost Aero and get a message that my card can't run Aero.

The only way I have found round this is to uninstall the DisplayLink software/drivers (which gives me back Aero) then re-install DisplayLink when I go to hook up to the dual monitors again. As I do this every day when I go from one office to my home office it is becoming a pain!

I see that the DisplayLink site says there are some incompatibilities with some hybrid cards, including the Nvidia in the Z, and presumably this is the result of that incompatibility.

Has anyone else experienced and overcome this problem?

 

I have experienced this exact problem, but am not willing to go through the uninstall/reinstall process. At the moment, I'm sitting on the 190.xx release.

I have two display link configurations, one for home and one for office. The home config has 1 monitor off of the docking station's DVI port and two off of the USB ports. The office config has 1 DVI and 3 USB's.

 

Hey, thanks for these newer drivers. Working very well (so far) on my VPCZ1290X.

 

just one query though, do i have to run the windows in test mode in order to get all these drivers to work ?
I know its a big deal, but if possible id love to get rid of that little test mode indicator on the bottom right

 

Didn't read through the thread but had issues with cs5 photoshop today. Had it plugged in and then unplugged. As a result, it switched to stamina which basically crashed cs5. The graphics went black and I had to restart the program. Rather annoying because it usually would ask me on some applications.

Does it not ask with cs5?

 

EDIT: scratch that, here's the program to remove the test mode overlay: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/...download-for-windows-7-vista-and-server-2008/

 

Hi mate, you are welcome, glad to help.

 

today nvidia released yet another new Verde driver, 260.99

NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL

I'm downloading as I type and will try to fit them into the 260.63 install package as I did with 260.89.

 

Does anyone have a problem with multiple displays on the new 260.xx drivers?

For some reason the nVidia control panel isn't detect multiple displays (only tried VGA so far).

Thanks.

 

I have some question regarding this topic:

1.Reading (some part of) this thread I saw some guides on how to install the package (uninstall the drivers first...) is it still the same? Could you please point me the step-by-step guide for the latest package?

2.I see you talk about official sony drivers, but where do you see them? I cannot find them on any sony page (or at least not on sony europe)

3.Is it okay to install the latest package with bios R3030c3?

Forgive me for being so newbye, but this is my first post

 

1 just uninstall current drivers. (optional) run drivercleaner, reboot, install new drivers

2. in the startpost are some ''beta'' drivers from sony (190.24) these are currently released as official drivers by sony.

3. yes.

 

Good work... is there a change log?

 

The change log should be on Nvidias page if you follow the link.

I am running with 260.99 at the moment at they seem to be just fine and stable, just like 260.89 I guess just with more bugfixes. My Internet is having massive problems at the moment but I will see if I can upload the new modded 260.99 tonight. cheers.

 

I hope this is the correct thread to post this question:

I recently purchased a VPCZ12 and I noticed that I cannot adjust the brightness when I am using the GT 330M. When I am in Stamina Mode (using Intel Media Accelerator) I can adjust it. I have turned off the auto brightness in the Sony Vaio tools to see if that would help, but it did not.

I am using the GT330M drivers that came with my system: 8.16.11.8880

Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a way to resolve it?

Thanks,

 

That should've done it. Turning off auto brightness... Also, did you have auto brightness on when u were able to adjust the brightness on your intel card? That isnt supposed to happen either.

 

When I am using the Intel Graphics Driver, I can adjust the brightness with or without the auto adjust enabled. The overlay will say auto when it is enabled, but it will still let me adjust the brightness.

When the auto adjust is enabled the dimming feature works (which I test by covering the sensor) when I use the Intel Graphics Driver, but will not work when I switch to the 330M.

Since in the office environment the highest brightness is a little too bright, I would like to dim the setting down.

 

turning off auto brightness does the trick, brightness works fine with both sony and modded drivers.

 

So you have not problems adjusting the brightness with the 330M graphics enabled? Is that using the drivers that came with the laptop?

 

Nope, I have used both 194.24 drivers from sony and the modded 260 series, brightness control works just fine.

 

Hey, guys!

I've just upgraded mine VGN-Z540 to Win 7 64 bit and I'd like to install these drivers (9300M GS). Problem is that I've lost a bit in instructions how to do that. As you referred to this guide, could someone please once again just explain step-by-step how to do that? I couldn't understand what does guide mean by "Place INF downloaded above in Display.Driver folder after you extract the drivers" . So, if it wouldn't be a big problem for someone, I'd appreciate your help

 

the installer only works on VPCZ series. prod Nautis to make one for the VGN (he was working on it last I heard)

 

Maybe there are any other drivers available for this series? Because after upgrading, i have problems with brightness fn+f5/f6 in SPEED mode. Sony official driver does not resolve that problem for some reason...

 

The latest drivers for VGN-Z from Nautis are these I believe...

 

Thanks! I'l try them out.

 

Thanks.
For now I'm going to use the official ones(working perfectly), hoping for a new package that won't need the test mode.

A little bit OT: running dxdiag on a z12 (with 190.24, but I obtained the same with the preinstalled driver) it says I have approx 472MB of memory (while of course I have the gt330m with 1GB), is it normal?

 

with 260.63 I get approx 4058 MB of memory, not 472MB.

 

Thanks
Umm..
And with the intel? I get approx 1760 MB.
Anybody with 190.24 can try and tell me if he gets the same?

If it's too much OT I can open another thread of course

 

Hey thomas, did you ever upload the tweaked 260.99's?

If not please, please use mediafire next time if you could, rapidshare is horrible

Also if it's something as simple as copying a list of files could you describe which ones and I'll write a batch script to do it. I tried figuring it out on my own but the installer would always complain. I also tried expanding the .dl_, .dr_ etc files with the Windows command line expand command.