1530: Increasing Gaming Performance Question

Hey NBR. My 1530 has been great for the few days I have used it. I have done alot of research to increase performance in Vista by using tweaking guides and such.

However, I am at a loss of how to upgrade graphics card drivrs and if there are any other drivers I need to update as well. Playing WOW at max settings I am getting around 50 FPS but I have heard that upgrading the drivers in the graphics card can improve performance.

Which drivers are best for Vista 32 bit and where would I find them. Thanks

 

laptopvideo2go.com find the driver...download, install done.
use those drivers at your own discretions tho, could screw things up if you are not careful.

 

Nah, if the drivers cause any problems you can juts roll it back in device manager. Try one of the beta 169 drivers in the forum.

 

Some people do experience problems when rolling back tho, they get worse performance and what not. Just choose a more 'stable' driver, its safer that way.

 

Ok, so I shoud just get the latest driver on laptopvideo2go? Or does latest not necessarily mean best.

 

latest are not the best. get 169.04 they have been the best for me

 

i dont get all that .INF crap on LV2G....the guides are pretty ****ty

 

what dont u get

 

All you do is click on the INF, then you save it to your desktop or wherever (the filename will be "nv_disp"). After you're done downloading the actual driver, extract it into a folder and replace the Modded INF with the nv_disp file already in the driver folder. Then run the setup and continue.

 

I'm using 169.09 and it's worked really well. No problems with it.

 

Wow.

Download their modded inf, copy-paste the inf file into the extracted folder of the driver, and overwrite/replace. Is that so hard?

 

Do dell ship with their latest drivers?

 

169.28 works well on a friend's laptop.

 

Why worry if you're getting 50 fps?

That's more then enough and smooth in ANY game.

 

anything 30fps and over is perfect

 

O/C the card. Its very O/Cable. My old Quadro version of the card reached about 5K in 06 on Vista. Download a program called Riva Tuner.

 

ok.. here is a question... so i wanted to try this better perforance drivers 169.09...

so i loaded them, restarted and tried to launch crysis, 3dmark... anything that uses the video card or a 3d app.. and i get a blue-screen displaying issues about a driver has anyone else gotten this... ? all i can do is restart, then i had to roll-back the drivers and things were fine! WTF?!

 

I think 169.09 is beta. Try the other version mentioned in this thread.

 

How much boost can the non-stock driver can give/ I got 4305 on 3DMark06

 

Has anyone been able to find an OC-able driver?

I was also wondering what core and memory bus speeds have been stable on particular drivers.