My discoveries on Vaio Z’s Hybrid Graphics

Hi My internet is a bit gimped at the moment but I will upload them (ill give mediafire a go) tonight (australian time). Sorry for the Delay but they are running fine here.

It's a bit tricky to list all the files because it seems there a very very few crucial files if overwritten nothing works.

 

I have just modded and installed the brand new not yet publicly released developer drivers forceware 261.00 and I will be doing a tiny bit of testing.

I can most likely upload them if people are interested.

 

Please do!

Also what are the important files to copy to Nautis' version to get it working? I'd like to be able to do it myself, but I have already wasted enough time in trying to figure it out.

 

These are the files copied from the unpacked verde drivers to the display.driver folder in Nautis' 260.63 drivers.



the driver version when installing will say something else because those information is stored elsewhere and also REMEMBER to manually driver sign the same 2 files mentioned in the original install guide. How ever, once installation is done, 2 files are signed and you reboot. your nvidia panel will show the correct driver file versions.

 

Hmm...maybe someone can explain me, why there is no updates on nvidia vista 32 drivers? Got another vgn-z540, still on vista home prem 32 and drivers are 2 years old. Can anyone recommend some unofficial drivers? Thats annoying...

 

Okay people, the modded drivers 261.00 are up for download:

Nvidia_verde_261_00_w_260_63_installer_thomaskc.rar - download now for free. File sharing. Software file sharing. Free file hosting. File upload. FileFactory.com

install them as normally, remember to manually sign the two files as mentioned in the original guide.

Cheers,

 

Does your Speed/Stamina switch still work?

 

Yup, all works just fine.

 

Nvm found it

 

Figured out the problem with the brightness and the installed graphics driver. It appears that the Brightness will remain on "high" and cannot be adjusted if the unit is ever booted or resumed from hibernated when an external VGA monitor is plugged in and using the "Speed" setting. If you leave the monitor unplugged prior to boot up, and plug the external monitor after boot-up, the brightness can be adjusted.

 

I installed it and signed it but when I use stamina I get a black screen .
Speed does work normally.

Also this is what I have:

 

Anyone know how to get these things signed? That test mode thing is annoying.

 

pay Microsoft/Verisign $500 a year

or sign the drivers yourself and hide the Test Mode overlay.

your choice.

 

Well I might be wrong then I never switch however if I pull the powercord I think I changes fine?!

 

How is it that you have different details at that system information menu ? Mine is worse.

 

can not create an installer that does not require signature?

 

It's not the installer that needs to be signed but the ''inf'' driver itself, and that requires a special microsoft something certificate so.

o and ps:

the 261.00 drivers is not switching to intel correctly (aka black screen). Went back to 260.89.

 

refer to three posts before yours: http://forum.notebookreview.com/son...-vaio-z-s-hybrid-graphics-43.html#post6841101

 

the magic of overclocking

 

Thought so, but he didn't say that. Guess I should do that as well.

 

Ah yeah sorry, My GPU is overclocked and running beautifully stable and faster, heh. the 330m can take a serious beating in overclocking, its neat.

And for the stamina mode, I wouldn't know I rarely use it.

 

Can I please know how you overclocked your GPU? Is it with rivatuner or something else?

 

MSI Afterburner is what I use (made by the author of RivaTuner)

 

This is what I use,

EVGA | EVGA Precision | EVGA Precision

easy to save profiles as you OC to find a stable clock speed.

 

Hi everyone, it's the first time I post here.
First of all I want to thank thomaskc.dk and Nautis for their work with the drivers, wich proved to be very useful. I am currently using the 260.89 and everything works perfectly, both in speed and stamina mode.

I tried the 261 but like Negaiido and hxkclan I got a black screen on stamina.
I also overclocked the 330M with EVGA Precision to the same specs as thomaskc.dk and the system seems stable, I tested it with Fallout: New Vegas and the improvement are considerable, so thank you again for your advice .

P.S. Someone should edit the first post with the last working drivers, I was lucky to find them in a 213 pages post ...

 

Thanks, glad I can help. Yeah a front page update wouldn't be a bad idea actually.

 

I can possibly upload the 260.99 drivers tonight if you guys want, they are newer than 260.89 and they DO also work with stamina mode. There are some performance boosts in them on higher resolutions according to nvidia.

 

that would be great.

 

Sorry guys, Upload failed, filefactory didn't give me a link when it finally finished :/ So the upload will be delayed a bit. its 4am so not doing it again just now.

 

try mediafire

 

Mediafire has a filesize limit of 200mb which is not enough unless you have a premium user. That's why I used rapidshare before

 

damn. how are these drivers so big? lol

 

modded nvidia 260.99

http://rapidshare.com/files/428692661/Nvidia_verde_260_99_w_260_63_installer_thomaskc.rar

sorry for the delay.

 

same type of installation process? Do we switch to "speed" mode prior to running the setup?

 

Yes, exactly the same as the other ones, signing the 2 files in test mode and so on

 

Thanks works like a charm! Did I mention I really hate the WEI benchmark system? I'm getting better performance out of the 260.99 than my stock 192.4 drivers and yet the wei scores still drop.. Blast!

 

thomaskc.dk, if you have spare time, can you please split the 260.99 driver and upload to mediafire? I have a very poor internet connection and can't finish downloading the whole file from rapidshare. I don't have a premium account so I can't resume my download. My only hope is mediafire because mediafire support resume downloading for free users. Thanks

 

thanks for the upload

it works really well.

the WEI was used to be 6.3 for both graphic with 260.63

now it went back to 6.4 with 260.99 as it was with 188888888888888888888880 haha....

 

Just for you mate

Mediafire - modded nvidia 260.99

Part1:
Nvidia_verde_260_99_w_260_63_installer_split_thomaskc.part1.rar

Part2:
Nvidia_verde_260_99_w_260_63_installer_split_thomaskc.part2.rar

enjoy

 

Thank you very very very much. Downloading it now. Can't wait to try it.

 

I have a problem with 260.63-99 hybrid graphics drivers. Installation was successful and they work excellent with performance switching as far as I check the graphic performance with bench mark tests. However, only CUDA programs can't be able to find a CUDA device after switching SPEED to STAMINA and again STAMINA to SPEED.
Is this my individual problem?

 

even though it's pointless I am getting 6.5 in both gaming and aero graphics in my test run due to my overclocked gpu.

 

Thanks thomas for giving us the newest drivers

 

Yes, I get the same values with the same overclock and 260.99 drivers, wich work fine, but I didn't tested any CUDA application yet.

 

hmm i didn't use nautis one because i realized that his one have a lot of extra features like changing time from 1 card to another... and my inf is nearer to the original 190.27.

simple way to describe it is more standard + structural...

if you saw my previous inf you should know what i mean...

edit:

cuda still not loading if you change from intel to nvidia...

need some modification in the nvbridge_int.kmd...

 

I noticed if you performed the regular install and not the "clean install" it doesn't install the changing time feature.

 

Hi, I am new to this site and I just downloaded MSI AfterBurner. I tried changing my core clock speed from 475 MHz to 500 MHz and it just resets it to 475MHz whenever I hit apply. Is there a config file I must change or something I have to change in the BIOS to make the clocks stay?

Thanks in advanced

 

Are you connected to your power supply? You cant overclock on battery power.

 

haha thanks man.... I feel kinda stupid now

 

These drivers boosted my scores from 6.3 to 6.5 in the graphics dept.

Thanks for your hard work and efforts!