VAIO F - NVIDIA Drivers Update (197.16) for GT 330M (10DE-0A29)

oh nice sounds gooood

 

Hi Coolguy,

I have a vaio F1290x - can I download the driver straight from the nvidia site, or is it that the link in your post is necessary to install on any vaio. I'm thinking that when Sony release thirdparty drivers they tend to make the install unique to vaio not for setup differences, just Sony making it a bespoke driver.

Appreciate your help.

Cheers,

 

^ You should be able to get it from nvidia.

 

You don't need any modded inf for the F series. Just download the Nvidia driver and install it.

 

Hi, thanks for that. I downloaded and installed from the nvidia site and it all worked ok, BUT, if anything is is working slower than before. Intact, going into the nvidia menu is painful with it taking up to a minute to change once selecting a tab to change settings. In game there is noticeable slowdown.

Maybe I'll uninstall and reinstall. It's a bit of a weird one.

 

Does the vaio Z use hybrid drivers or something? or does it just use the generic laptop drivers from nvidia? (like the new 259.xx) ??

 

There is a separate thread for the vaio z nvidia driver - check it out

 

Hmm I'm on the 258.96 drivers and they gave me a bit of a speed boost in games. Did you completely uninstall the old video driver before installing the new one?

You may want to uninstall/reinstall your drivers. I usually uninstall my video drivers from the add/remove programs and then reboot into safe mode, install the new drivers, and then boot back into normal windows. It just makes sure that there are no conflicts in the drivers.

 

Hi Mangosango,

Yeah I think that might have been the problem - I went through safe mode as you reccomended and the games dont jutter like they did. So thanks for the tip!

Performance seems slightly smoother, but not the big jump that others have experienced.

Odly, the nvidia settings in control panel are very slow to respond still - click say the 3d settings and it takes 30 seconds or so to switch.

 

honestly i just installed the ntune software to overclock my gpu and i noticed that my nvidia control panel is quite slow i have no idea why it is but im just going to have to deal with it. if there is a fix somebody please post it up

 

Huh maybe you have nTune installed like edween does? (you can check in your add/remove programs, I think). Happy to hear your problem is partially solved.

Ah nTune.... I actually had some bad experiences with nTune a long time ago when I had an nforce4 motherboard (my first desktop build!). nTune had an auto-overclocking feature that killed my computer. Thinking back, my comp died probably because I had a cheap motherboard, but I still have a stigma against nTune. I would recommend overclocking using nvidia system tools

EDIT: Major FAIL on my part, Nvidia system tools is just the new name for nTune: Wikipedia article on Nvidia System Tools. Maybe nTune failed so hard that they needed a new name to get rid of the taintedness? lol idk, but the system tools are working fine for me (no slowdowns in the nvidia control panel). I'll let you know if I find anything though.

 

good catch cause i was going to point that out. well i uninstalled it so i probably will install it again and use it cause it was pretty straight forward overclocking program. it was that or riva tuner or something but whatever i dont mind the lag or delay and its probably not because of the program maybe i just never noticed the lag or delay.

 

I just swapped my hdd for the seagate momentus xt hybrid hdd and had to reinstall everything - there is a new 2.60 beta out which I installed along with the nvidia tools - all working fine now. I've overclocked mine at 675/800/1475 - is it normal for the nvidia program to always revert back to factory settings on boot do you know? It asks me if I want to save the profile which I do - and then it asks me if I want it to remember for boot. Just reverts back.


The 2.60 driver seems better - as when I thought I was testing the overclocked card - I realised I wasn't! I was playing quake 3 - all settings on high and 1920 x 1080 - with the 197 driver it juddered slightly - now it's silky smooth - well it's an old game so it should be like that.

Crysis I have the resolution at 1280 x 720, no anti aliasing, v sync on, full screen and all settings on high - not properly tested but slight slowdown if action - so I'm thinking with the overclock it will sort that out.

I've got the i7840qm and 8th ram which will be helping out

 

^ Yeah it resets the clocks back to default for some reason. It's a pain to have to open nvprofile every time you play a game to OC, but I can live with it.

I gotta try out those new drivers! They sound like they're offering some nice performance boosts

 

there is a way to fix the clocks. After you change your clock settings go down to the profile tab under the performance section. Then choose your profile for your overclock setting you saved earlier and set it so its turned on after boot.

so am i missing something?! is there a new driver update or something for the 330m?

 

Hi Edween, for some reason although I select profile and keep after reboot - it doesn't! There is a new beta out 2.60 - still haven't had a real chance to try it out as I broke my mouse (dont ask!) and waiting for a new one....BUT, I think it's noticeably improved performance somehow - oh, it changed my window graphics indexes to 6.5 from 6.4 too.

Note - I did jump from the factory installed driver straight to 2.60 which may account for me seeing a jump - I don't know how much a difference it is from say the 258 driver.

 

Ok, I'm overclocking at 704 / 850 / 1544 - pc is stable with a high temp of 53 - the weather here is a bit autumnal, but I am inside - that seems too cool though somehow although I've seen similar low temps with o'cs posted. I'm using gpu-z and monitoring closely. Mangosango I know you went a fair bit higher, what did you settle on in the end?

 

these are the clocks mango uses. well at least the latest safe clocks i know he used

730/915/1515 - Core/Mem/Shader

 

I installed the new NVIDIA 260.63 Beta (International, all languages, Win 7 64-bit) & Cinebench 11.5 64-bit shows some OpenGL slowdown while Furmark remains the same. The CPU Single Core rendering is excruciatingly slow. Naturally this says nothing about game specific performances.

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More here w/ stress tests: VAIO_F Series NVIDIA 260.63 Beta - REPORT.

 

Hm... installed the new drivers, and now my monitor doesn't show up as a device under the color settings (I can't apply my icc profile anymore!).

I just installed so I haven't played much of anything, but in Sc2 I saw about 3-5fps increase at 1920x1080. ME2 seemed to be about the same.

 

Works for me: Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Color Management > Devices, > select Use my Settings > Add > navigate to your favorite ICC profile then select & mark as Default.

Check under the All Profiles tab to see if your ICC profile is there.

Unless you mean an external monitor? If so, did you try Identify Monitors?

 

Yes - the laptop monitor actually does not show up as a device (only printers are listed). It's strange - the 257.96 drivers (the latest non-beta drivers) work, but not the new ones.

 

Again: did you try Identify Monitors?

What if you uninstall/re-install the monitor in Device Manager?

 

Yes, I've tried all this. Actually, not re-installing the monitor in device manager (didn't feel like risking my display to stop working at all, as I don't have an external monitor with me).

There is probably an issue with the way the driver responds to my shell because I don't see anyone else with this issue ( I ditched the default explorer shell for something else). It's no big deal, the 258 drivers (the latest WHQL drivers) work without issue and give similar performance.

 

There's always Safe Mode so no risk.

 

v260.63 has support for GT 330M.
no need for this thread anymore!

 

v260.63 has support for GT 330M.
You can upload that draiver here ?
Please.

 

Not necessary.
You can get the driver straight from Nvidia themselves:
NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.63 BETA

 

hi all
somebody know if the new nvidia driver its working with CS5 ?

 

From the page I linked to above your post:
"Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop CS5".

 

In Nvidia system tools > Preferences > Polityc of profile. you can set rules of auto overclocking when you need it. Just set custom clockings for example 740/948/1540 to work when you turn on game for example Crysis and default profile when you shut the game down. That's all. I use it all time and I don't need to turn on nvidia system tools each time, besides it (Nv sys tools) really starts very slow cause its cheking graphic information

 

I just opened Premire pro cs5 after installing the drivers and it now allows you to use hardware acceleration with the mercury playback engine so its all good to go same as the quadro chips.

 

can i use those replacement files with the latest non-beta version of the drivers?

 

If you have the Vaio F with GT 310M or 330M there is no need for replacing any files. You can get the latest mobile driver straight from Nvidia.
See also http://forum.notebookreview.com/son...7-owners-thread-part-5-a-238.html#post7024846

 

i have a f11m1e and i was asking about the performance tweaks that were proposed at the beginning of this thread

 

Okay, sorry I didn't get that from your question.
Maybe you can be more specific or quote the post with the tweaks.