Anyone try new Lenovo Quadro Drivers?

I noticed in system update lenovo released a new version of quadro drivers for the FX570M. Anyone try these yet and are they any good? I think they are 175.97

 

Yes! I installed them last night and yes they are 175.97. However, as I posted to the Lenovo Forums:

"I just installed version 7.15.11.7597 of the NVidia Quadro NVS140M video driver on my T61 and it seems to have slowed my "Windows Experience" settings down. I previously used the Lenovo stock driver and got scores of 4.1 for the "Graphics" and 4.7 for the "Gaming Graphics" Windows Experience Index scores. With the new drivers I get 3.3 for the "Graphics" and 4.1 for the "Gaming Graphics" sections!!!

Has anyone else noticed the same issue? If so, is there anything I can do bar reverting to an older driver?"

So, not great so far!

Anyone else tried them? If so, what are your experiences?

 

Yeah, the same thing happened to me! I had WEI scores of 4.0 and 4.7 with my Quadro mobile 140 NVS, but after installing the updated Lenovo drivers I get 1.0 and 1.0, and thus lose Aero.

I quickly uninstalled them and went back to my laptopvideo2go.com drivers. Even the old Lenovo drivers gave me a 4.0 and 4.6.

Not sure what's wrong with them, but I can say I had the same experience.

 

It actually worked much better for me, not just WEI, but aero runs much smoother, iTunes cover flow actually works now.

Here is before


And after

 

I am also getting a slight drop in performance

 

Is everybody getting a slight performance drop in WEI or regular gaming and Aero smoothness? I don't care about the WEI score as long as the latter is better

 

Can anyone recommend a (free) benchmark utility so I can post scores for the new drivers on my T61?

Cheers,

S

 

My WEI score dropped from 4.3 do 4.2 in Graphics (Gaming Graphics stayed at 5.1), but Aero is much smoother - i.e. no more choppy Flip3D performance). I have a 128 MB Quadro 570M.

 

Forget about WEI. Check with a real benchmark.
3DMark 06 is a good synthetic benchmark to check with. Try that before using that crappy WEI.

 

I noted in another thread that this new driver update did shut down my advanced mini dock's DVI output. I had the same problem when Nvidia updated their driver a long while back and I gave it a whirl. VGA still works. Lenovo doesn't seem all that concerned with the problem...

 

The update lowered my 3DMark scores and made my fan run all the time, I undid the update and all is well again

 

i think its for the heating issue with the nvidia cards... what version did u revert back to/

 

The new Lenovo driver (175.97) seems to be working pretty well for me. I played COD4 for a few hours with it and it was pretty good. The LTV2go driver I was using before (175.80) was causing some bad side effects on my system. Things like Outlook hanging for 5 minutes upon opening the program and other system apps hanging and becoming non-responsive. I didn't realize it was the video driver that was causing these problems until I installed the Lenovo driver and everything started working better again.

CPU and GPU temps have been about the same as before. GPU idles at about 56-57 C (ambient temp is 85* F) and gets up to the mid 70's in COD4. The game runs just about as well as it has with any other driver version. Haven't noticed any more fan activity than before, however, I'm in a noisy environment so it is hard for me to hear the fan.

Anyway, for me, the new Lenovo driver is a keeper, at least for now.