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    Is anybody using 180.46 nvidia drivers?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by FrozenDarkness, Nov 24, 2008.

  1. FrozenDarkness

    FrozenDarkness Notebook Deity

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    I"m getting crazy multicolored block artifacts just by surfing the web. can this be caused by a driver? It's really odd.
     
    FrozenDarkness, Nov 24, 2008
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    Possibly, but it could be that your 8600M GT is going bad. Is it overheating? You can check it with GPU-Z. Try 174.31 driver from laptopvideo2go.com...that's one of the common driver mentioned in one of the thread here.
     
    hanime, Nov 24, 2008
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    DarkFnh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi yeah I tried the 180.46 nvidia driver and it gave me multicolored block artifacts.
    Thats why I just went back to 178.24 and everything is well again :)

    so if u want the best breformance with no side effects install 178.24 I have been using it for a week now with a big improvement in games :)

    BTW
    So uninstall it as fast as u can and go back to 178.24 if u want the best performance ;)
     
    DarkFnh, Nov 24, 2008
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    I'm running 180.48, no probs, was using 178.24 previously - get ~ same results game wise.
     
    yomamasfavourite, Nov 24, 2008
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