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Everything works except when switching from intel to nvidia, only able to switch if i reset every registry setting back to when it was first installed which is a hassle. Will upload the hybrid version once this major issue is ironed out.
Thats about it, if you experience any bugs inform me right away and I will try to fix it.
Up and running. 1st try at removing intel drivers didnt work. 2nd says worked but it reinstalled again on boot even though I had actually selected the driver removal. Odd. 3rd go was fine.
Control pnl is there... looks like what I would expect an optimus setup to be (but never looked before). 3D GPU selection is set on auto.
Intel handles that now, nvidia is used solely for 3D etc, you may set the color settings from the Intel Display control panel. Just right click and select graphics properties
It's really random with several reboots / Sleep i made today , sometimes it's ok , sometime it's burn. I'll try to find when my settings are messed up and once they are not ( but i'm still with the old ver' remember , i'll try the new one tonight )
Btw , if you want beta on Hybrid with your fix, i'd be ok ( i don't care about rebooting to switch , the only thing i need is to set Intel for school , and Nvidia @home )
Ran 3dmark for comparison. Score dropped a little bit but not much. I normally get 64xx every time. Now 62xx. Its ok games might be better or even same.
As I type this there is a slight delay on text so I'll reboot and see if any improvement. Hope its not related.
Odd thing I didn't think about before but isn't a huge shock: plugged in ext mon and fired up 3dmark after test just sitting with results open I unplugged the HDMI cable. Doing so meant my native screen was blank. Had to reconnect and exit 3dmark.
I can tell the GPUs are switching as i see my temps fluctuate! This is good. Also monitoring using the nvidia activity monitor. Battery life is not greatly improved for me but I suspect all my settings are still out of whack from going "max" for testing.
Really useful actually, tells you when the dGPU is on or not, my WHS 2011 launchpad had been incorrectly identified by the NVidia driver as being a game and was forcing the dGPU on the whole time, this app tells you which process running is triggering the switch. One proviso, apparently if you have the diagnostics running whilst gaming some anti-cheat software may flag it and ban you so make sure you close the diagnostics before going logging on to multiplayer.
maybe better yet, the monitoring app is already included in this....just go to nvidia control panel, in one of the menu items above, you can show status indicator. It will show list of applications using the GPU. After enabling it you can find it in the status bar at the lower right corner of the screen.
No...Im the one who must say thank you for your interest.
Though as much as I want to test a lot of my ideas I have little time as of the moment, managing lots of software development projects about to kick-off first week november, my time is very limited
, but i will find the time.
I'm using this too. Played with manually forcing 335 GPU to be on which worked for Chrome browser and showed properly in the status tool. Generally I think everything auto will work for me.
The KB delay is gone so must have been a fluke.
Made sure no devices plugged into left USB port, unplugged power, and closed lid. Sleep mode worked fine. Resume ok.
NFSW worked for one session of about 30-45min no driver crash (I would get them once in a while)
Finally (for tonight), my GPU temps fluctuate a lot even though I'm just using browser (no vids). Low 40's to high 40's. Up/Down etc. Seems to stay on the lower side longer but still climbs up eventually.
So these are the newest drivers out for the R1? Are these "official" or no? Just curious...
How/When do you uninstall the old drivers? I haven't downloaded driver sweeper and I have never used it before either. I have been using the stock 190.xx drivers since I got my R1 a few weeks ago. I was thinking of disabling the Intel card all together until I found this thread.
Can you give me the step by step to installing these if they are in fact the newest/best drivers for the R1?
I haven't been big into PCs until the past couple years. My first PC was a VAIO, and they never made new drivers available so I never had to/could update them. Then I built a desktop myself, and I installed the 280.xx something drivers on my GTX 260 and never updated them, now that PC is gone. So honestly I have no experience installing new drivers on GPUs...especially Alienware's with their quirky problems
I have to ask... why is it great that these are not official? again, just curious...
Next, I assume I download both sets of drivers BEFORE I do the driver sweeper thing. Just download and save them to my Downloads folder before I start?
Do I reboot in safe mode everytime until they are all installed?
It's great cause it seems that Dell forgot us R1 user ( or want us to buy R3 ... ) and it's great that RigelKent made some " homemade drivers " for us R1 user , i was waiting this for a loooong time
Just download both driver and driver sweeper where you want. You just have to go to safe mode once , while using driverSweeper.
When you uninstall a driver , there are some " part " of it that never go away , that were driversweeper is usefull. And to do this , you have to be in safe mode. So , uninstall on normal mode , reboot on safe , use driver sweeper while in safe mode( easy to use , select display drivers , clean on " scan and clean " , and it will ask you to reboot , just say yes , and you're ready for your fresh install ... )
Do not expect miracles just from newer drivers but often when a "current" card has such a large jump in driver ver there are small improvements. So far I have zero perf gain.
I did this install to see if more stable and to check out the intel drivers. The intel is actually quite capable for daily tasks and there have been a number of improvements
So I just did a fresh install using Catzoo's instructions, and everything seems to work fine...but now Fn+F6 doesn't do anything? Is this what TC means by automatic switching? In that case, is there any way to re-purpose it to do something else?
Also, noticed something odd with HDMI-out - first of all, had to have Windows install drivers after opening up nVidia Control Panel (just plugging it into the TV did nothing)...and then I can't get the TV to display the resolution fullscreen. The TV's resolution is 1920x1200, but if I set that in the Control Panel, it makes the mouse go off the screen, and if I resize it, there's two thin bars (on top and bottom) that I can't get the laptop to recognize as part of the screen or something. With the previous (official) drivers, simply resizing it through the Control Panel gave me the full screen without a problem. I've tried all options and combinations I could think of to no avail.
Is the res detected correctly? As for Fn+F6 about the only thing useful I can think of is a manual toggle to disable Nvidia GPU for max power savings. Fallout from such a thing might not be worth it though.
Just noticed the nvidia panel has two diff places where scaling/aspect/size can be altered... only one has preview along with a host of settings (Adj DT size/pos) compared to another with only edge enhancement (adj vid img)
Mild Annoyance: hdmi is plugged in. M11x display is deactivated. Opened nvidia control panel to poke around. Removed cable. Screen still not active... had to reconnect and exit nvidia cpanel. Needed to do all this because I also wanted to check intel control panel, which you cannot do while 335 is active.
Yeah, like I said, the TV's resolution is 1920x1200, and Control Panel lists it as the panel's native resolution...but for whatever reason, as I said, no matter what I do, there's a black bar I can't do anything with both at the top and bottom of the screen. And I'm 100% positive I didn't have this problem with the official drivers.
And yeah, good point.
Also, can't say I'm having any problems with the M11x display deactivating...I can extend the desktop without a problem, although it may be because I didn't do a clean install of the nVidia drivers and left my previous settings (it automatically did it so the TV appears on top of the screen, whereas by default I believe it'd be on the right of the screen).
I uninstalled the Intel and nVidia drivers, ran driver sweeper in safe mode, restarted, installed the intel driver in the first post of this topic and now I've got a black screen
Installed and so far it seems to be working. Tested it out with Minecraft and the Nvidia GPU succesfully switched on and then off when I closed it. I'll let you know if I run into any bugs, but for the moment, it's working great.
Got it working. For some reason when I installed these drivers a HDMI audio device is disabled in device manager. I curiously enabled it and all hell broke loose.
Using it for about a day now, no issues to report yet. Idles/downclocks when nVidia graphics are unnecessary, and starts up properly for most games. I say most because I had to make an exception in the Control Panel for at least two games to start up with nVidia versus Intel.
Definitely loving it, even if there's no performance difference between it and the older version (haven't noticed any difference so far).
On Thu 10/20/2011 5:13:19 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\102011-12823-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA80077BD038, 0xF2000040, 0x800)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
On Thu 10/20/2011 5:13:19 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: igdkmd64.sys (igdkmd64!hybDriverEntry+0xEDA97)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA80077BD038, 0xF2000040, 0x800)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\igdkmd64.sys
product: Intel Graphics Accelerator Drivers for Windows XP(R)
company: Intel Corporation
description: Intel Graphics Kernel Mode Driver
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: igdkmd64.sys (Intel Graphics Kernel Mode Driver, Intel Corporation).
Google query: igdkmd64.sys Intel Corporation WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
On Thu 10/20/2011 5:10:14 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\102011-14570-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x4B16CC)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA80077FB038, 0x0, 0x0)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver which cannot be identified at this time.
On Wed 10/19/2011 7:44:38 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\101911-17394-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA800779E038, 0xB2000040, 0x800)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
4 crash dumps have been found and analyzed. A third party driver has been identified to be causing system crashes on your computer. It is strongly suggested that you check for updates for these drivers on their company websites. Click on the links below to search with Google for updates for these drivers:
@smsmasters can you create a dump containing the versions of igdkmd64.sys and nvldkkm.sys etc the libraries you mentioned here.
These dumps look familiar, these happened to me before....although that was months ago, when uninstalling intel/nvidia drivers didnt happen as clean as i intend it to be.
Please go to your command prompt and use PNPUTIL to list all 3rd party drivers
from both nvidia and intel
Hi, I'm not sure how to create a dump containing those files. Shall I just upload those files?
I ran PNPUTIL -e, I'm not sure if this is what you need
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So far I seem to have got everything working. I got some initial BSOD, but I think I figured out the trick to get it working.
First of all, after uninstalling, reboot every time. Reboot after uninstalling the nvidia drivers, reboot after uninstalling intel drivers, reboot after installing the intel graphics drivers, and reboot after installing the modified nvidia drivers.
And lastly, after that final reboot - WAIT 5 MINUTES! After that last reboot it seems to be installing and configuring additional drivers - don't go into the nvidia panel, don't try and make any changes, don't try and run any programs, just let it finish whatever it's doing, then try running some programs.
That's the trick that got things working for me after I reinstalled everything.
So far these drivers are working quite well. Battery life is about what I'd expect it to be. I've been running my R1 for the last 2.5 hours and still have 56% battery left. That's about what I'd expect it to be when running on integrated graphics, and overclocked (the bios OC).
The only issue I have is with there is a "High Definition Audio Controller" that's disabled in device manager. I can enable it but it's disabled again when I reboot or put the system to sleep.
The mediafire link seems to be down as I'm getting a 404 error when I try to get the nvidia drivers. For those that have got the driver and got it working did you need to do anything with the boot options for Windows 7? From memory if the driver isn't signed it will get blocked by windows when trying to load it.
EDIT:Sorted out the 404 error, seems that there must be block on mediafire with my ISP, going in through a VPN service allowed me to connect.
Noticed one odd thing recently. It might be a generic optimus issue or unique to our config. Scenario:
Using built in screen on intel.
Plug in HDMI cable to ext mon.
Nothing detected and nothing changes
Launch app that uses Nvidia and screen is detected, works as normal
In the above case I used the nvidia control panel to "spark" the 335 use.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
