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    Nvidia released Laptop Drivers (beta)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by techadventures, Dec 20, 2008.

  1. techadventures

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    techadventures, Dec 20, 2008
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  2. Hep!

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    laptopvideo2go.com
    Now you don't have to wait for slow Sony to release anything.
     
    Hep!, Dec 20, 2008
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  3. coolguy

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    You can download latest Nvidia drivers from Sony FTP.
     
    coolguy, Dec 20, 2008
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    Where can you download the latest nvidia drivers for Sony from. The latest for the FZ for example are from 2007...
     
    scadsfkasfddsk, Dec 21, 2008
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    167.70 is actually a pretty old driver considering the 17X will soon be finished and nvidia will be moving on to the 18X series.
     
    scadsfkasfddsk, Dec 21, 2008
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    Sony's driver is better than laptopvideo2go. I did try and I get better Vista score with Sony's driver
     
    NHT, Dec 21, 2008
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    Vista WEI is worthless.
    Run a real benchmarking tool like 3dmark06 to do a real test.
     
    Hep!, Dec 21, 2008
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    I'm gonna disagree, the drivers customised by DOX are way better than Sony standard drivers. Impovements all round in benchmarks (3DMark 06).
     
    VAIO_FZ, Dec 21, 2008
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    why does nothing ever work with sony :[
     
    fendel, Jan 3, 2009
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    Beware that if you install custom driver, your Blu-ray software player may no longer work.
     
    hendra, Jan 3, 2009
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    What nVidia subfolders? There are none.

    And does the old 167.60 driver give you CUDA and PhysX? Like other people with the same graphics card now have?
    No? Well, then!
     
    arth1, Jan 3, 2009
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    What would happen if you install it anyway? Will it refuse to install? Can you bypass model checker by extracting the files manually with 3rd party extractor, like Universal Extractor?
     
    hendra, Jan 3, 2009
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