LV2GO drivers on 8600m GS - F3SV

Hey,

am running the 169.13 drivers on an F3SV-B1. Have gone through about 4 or so drivers from LV2Go and so far my experience with all of them hasnt been the greatest. At most i only see the slightest framerate increase, but the negative effects far outweigh these. I am experiencing issues with resuming from sleep, and brightness

When i put my computer to sleep (or attempt to), sometimes it will not sleep. The fan is still running and the power light is solid green, yet the screen turns off. Then no matter what i do, resuming from this state is a mission. Either the computer will resume, by me hitting Fn+F1 again to hope it goes to sleep properly this time and then i can resume, or me holding down the power button and performing a hard power off.

In addition, while running on the battery. The brightness of the screen will reset itself every ~10 mins. This is annoying as @#$! as i have my screen set to 13% and for it to suddenly pop up to 100% is blinding. In addition it makes watching a movie such a pain, as i have to get up to lower the brightness again.

Can anyone comment on the overall stability of their modded drivers, and what driver theyre using. I am not limiting the responses to the f3 series, as all the nvidia cards use the same drivers. It would be somewhat pleasing (and disheartening) to hear that G1 users are experiencing the same issue on their GT cards.

P.S:

I have been installing my drivers simply using the have-disk method. Now i presume that when i install new drivers it will uninstall the old ones but am afraid i am horribly wrong. I do have CCleaner and have heard that this should be used when installing new drivers. Can someone outline the process. Id rather use this currently installed tool, than have to download a driver cleaner.

 

I use DriverCleanerPro instead of CCleaner. I have posted the step by step process a few times over the last 24 hours and I won't do it yet again.

And yes, you are wrong in assuming that the old drivers are just removed. They are not, some files are overwritten, and if old drivers create problems then the new drivers might inherit them.

 

I have had a couple of problems with sleep, but I can't blame the video drivers for them. One was caused by the VPN software that the company I work for uses. Removing this solved it. I now get an occasional problem like you describe, but I haven't tracked down a cause.

This is caused by a setting in the Vista power options. You need to open the advanced settings of the power options. Expand the "Display" tree and find the three settings for the "SmartDimmer". These relate to how to adjust the brightness as the battery runs down. There are two to adjust. I have the one starting with "Allow" set to 100% and the "Have..." option set to 0%. I don't remember what the original settings were. The information for this came from this forum a couple of months ago.

 

thanks for these responses...much appreciated.