NVIDIA Makes Laptop Graphics Drivers Available Online ... Finally

No help with these results

Product - NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Current Installed Driver - 176.44
Latest Driver - Dell requires that you download the driver for your GPU from their support site. The GeForce M series and GeForce Go series notebook GPUs use drivers that have been customized by the notebook manufacturers to support hot key functions, power management functions, lid close and suspend/resume behavior. NVIDIA has worked with some notebook manufacturers to provide notebook-specific driver updates, however, most notebook driver updates must come from the notebook manufacturer. Additionally, the desktop GeForce graphics drivers will not install on Geforce M series and Quadro M series notebook GPU's.

 

I'm not sure wh at you're saying...Nvidia's new drivers should work fine on Dells other than the Vostros. And even if they didn't, you can force Nvidia's reference drivers to install.

 

no quadro fx 3700m

 

I got 100 points higher in 3D06 compared to XFastest 177.xx drivers if that means anything.

 

These new Nvidia Mobile drivers work great on my M1330 not sure what you speak of on the driver download page from the Nvidia site it clearly say the following.
"If you own a Dell Inspiron 1420, Dell XPS M1330, or Dell XPS M1530 it is highly recommended that you first install this Dell software update."

Which is a new firmware update A14. These driver again install fine on GPU'S with 8400M GS.

BTW after testing them on QuakeWars for about an hour no issue's at all highy recommend them.

 

this should have been done since nvidia first came out with laptop video cards. lol. this is not something to be excited about but, none the less, "good morning nvidia" lol

 

Again, I already have A14, and when I go to Nvidia.com "Option 2: Automatically find drivers for my NVIDIA products", the scan results in this:

Product - NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

Current Installed Driver - 176.44

Latest Driver - Dell requires that you download the driver for your GPU from their support site. etc​

 

Why bother with the scan man??? The point is that you can download the version based on YOURE GPU so do it manually without using the stupid scanner, and enjoy the latest version did you try that route?

 

Sure it should have been done, but apparently the computer manufactures have always fought it. Even still Sony and Leveno apparently aren't participating.

So it's still a huge deal.

 

The reason is the drivers from OEM are down clocked for warranty and other reason primarily so you dont toast your comp IMHO.

 

I'm pretty sure that' not right...I mean I'm not 100% sure, but...

I mean when I install reference drivers on a Macbook Pro, nothing seems to change (other than there are more features and more things run). The clock speed isn't altered by the new drivers.

If the drivers were setting the clock speed by default, then on the desktop too every part would be running at the same clock speed, and they're not, they're set by the manufacturer in hardware (at least the default speed).

 

I installed the new driver for my dv6500t and man it increased the fan quite a bit. Even after powering up from sleep it would run on high for a several minutes before it would calm down.. this after the system is not hot at all. The HP driver did a pretty good job keeping the temps under 60c.. usually around 55c or less. So what is this anyway.? Is nvidia releasing these drivers to max out the fans because of the faulty solder they put on the 8xx series cards? I thought the bios controlled the fan but there is no mistake about it, the nvidia driver changed the fan/heat management on my machine and it was definitely over kill for a dv6500t which normally does not have the heat failures like some machines. I mean when the machine is cold there is no reason for it to run on high that long when I boot it up from sleep.

I rolled back the driver. I think I will get my drivers from HP thank you but no thanks nvidia. Me thinks nvidia is getting tired of replacing fried motherboards and decided to take more aggressive action with these new drivers. Maybe I am wrong.. but I knew instantly that the fan management changed when I installed the new driver... at least with this machine. I mean that was way too loud and in my face.. totally unacceptable.

 

Don't know what's going on with fan management, but this is something we've needed for YEARS, and has nothing to do with that. Nvidia's been fighting for years for this.

If your current driver works okay for basic desktop usage and that's all you do, that's fine, but if you use your GPU for games, video playback, CUDA stuff, whatever, you're going to need real drivers sooner or later.

 

No, because Nvidia says "most notebook driver updates must come from the notebook manufacturer." because "the GeForce M series and GeForce Go series notebook GPUs use drivers that have been customized by the notebook manufacturers to support hot key functions, power management functions, lid close and suspend/resume behavior."

 

No. That's how it was for a very long time and they probably haven't updated the site yet, but that's not how it is now. That's what this thread is all about: the new 179.28 drivers will work with almost all laptops; just download them and give it a try -- they're WHQL signed.

That said, the Wow Video and Audio hot keys on my laptop don't seem to work with these. I don't use them so it doesn't matter to me, but it seems they still have some kinks to work out.

 

hmmm my "hacked" driver from laptop2go works fine, should i still download the one from nvidia?

 

Finally, official drivers!!!

 

In reading this thread, I think it is worth mentioning again that you should go to the following link for laptop drivers. The link in the article takes you to a page that seems to not be fully aware of the laptop driver change and it sounds like some of the posters in this thread are going to that other link.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_drivers.html

It won't help many of us that have a non-current card model but it might help some.

 

I'm going to try the driver for 9500m GS and will report back on how it's doing. Currently 123 MB driver.

 

BSOD on x64 when you accept the license agreement for NTUNE .

 

You have to install nTune 6.02 or something like that to get it to work in Vista 64.

 

hooray, still no drivers for the quadro mobile fx570! Just when I had gotten used to the graphics driver disaster, I read this news, get all my hopes up and when dashed am just left hating nvidia all over again.

3 cheers for nvidia and the seemingly indecipherable psychotic mess that the state of drivers is in.

could be worse, I guess I'm not running linux

 

It's not Nvidia adante-it's the hardware manufacturers. Nvidia has been trying to be able to support their mobile GPUs for years. Also you'll note the other two GPU makers provide even less support.

 

Nvidia intends to add the FX driver support within the next few months.

 

Just to make sure, this driver doesn't have most of the stuttering issues and so on when compared to the 180.xx series right?

 

No 9100m g support that sucks

 

Fair enough - but surely they could have just released drivers 'as-is' and let us play with them, instead of having to apply the (often wacky and not working) hacks from e.g. laptopvideo2go

Anyway I am still stuck in driver hell - At the moment I need 2 sets of drivers to run different games and multi-monitor vista support is utterly psychotic - but to be fair, yes they are definitely better than radeon (at least they were the last time I used radeon which was a few years ago). Thanks Wolfpup for a much needed sense of perspective

As a rejoinder I would like to add: I still do not understand and am largely pissed off by nvidias driver numbering scheme and it really seems to be the work of wizards to me. Is this actually explained anywhere by nvidia? (I know laptopvideo2go has a brief description but it seems out of date and basically useless.)

 

these made a huge difference on the wifes compal 8600gt.. doesnt run as hot and i was using 18x series drivers and this one got another 700 points in 3dmark 06!!!! i was very suprised.. well done nvidia

 

I emailed Dell about the Vostro being mentioned as not being supported on the Nvidia Driver site and the Dell rep said they saw no reason why the Nvidia drivers can't be downloaded. I don't see why it would be an issue but I don't exactly trust the email response, either.

Has anyone figured out a reason why this is?

 

If you have Vista x64 do not install this. By installing this you will BSOD your OS everytime you launch NTUNE from the NVIDIA control panel. I tried removing this to no avail. It stayed in my system no matter what I did. Driver sweeper, safe mode, cc cleaner, etc. I rolled back 3 drivers and the performance option was still in the control panel BSODING my Vista. I had to fresh format and now the option is gone.

 

I tried with nTune 6.03 and I had no BSOD on Vista x64.

 

I tried on My Dell Latitude D630. And it not supported. All Geforce 135M supported except on D630 (. I am stuck with 176.44. Newer version is not WHQL and can make my VGA temp 80 degree celcius .

 

I decided to give these drivers a try on my ASUS G1S with the 8600M GT. I had to uninstall them and go back to laptopvideo2go drivers. For some reason, these drivers don't support the highly useful 1280x800 resolution I use to run most games. Other than that, they worked great.

 

I was able to successfully install the new driver on my Vista installation but when I try to install the Win XP version (on my Win XP Home SP2 on the same laptop), I get a message that says the installer doesn't detect any supported hardware?

 

sorry to revive an old thread but as my driver situation gets more dire and still no sign of unified fx driver support - where was this stated exactly?

 

Because of that I had to format my U6. Don't install nTune, you will never get rid of it. I used driver sweeper 5 times, 3 different driver versions and there was a bloody section in the Nvidia Control Panel with "Accept License Agreement". It was under nTune. As soon as I said, yes or no, Blue was my favourite colour.

 

i am so excited i pee'd a little. this is great news. i was using some really old drivers

 

just wondering if there was any word on this? Today I wanted to play a game but of course that was not possible thanks to the hilariously messy driver situation. It was good fun. I really like nvidia.

 

Keep waiting - the 6 series doesn't even have Nvidia Official Driver support yet. :3

 

Ugh, drivers for linux have been available from NVIDIA have been available for quite some time now.

JerryJ, are you disciminating against linux ??

 

is Nvida basically for gamming???

 

What do you mean?

 

It's for everything. For one thing, they're the only company that actually supports their mobile GPUs, which in and of itself should be enough that they're the only company you consider. For another, they have the best drivers even aside from that (and IMO the best interface to those drivers too).

If you don't care about image quality, interface speed, video playback, GPU programs (I run Folding already...) OR games, then I suppose you could get by with Intel graphics, but I'm not as happy with the picture quality output even then.

 

so as we approach the anniversary of this ignominious announcement I was wondering if anybody knew of progress made towards this.

I continue to eagerly anticipate it - I just hope it's out before DNF.

 

Wait, people still use the GeForce FX Go series?
Lemme guess, Windows ME must run really well on your system, eh?

 

Haha, well Quadro FX 570M ~= 8600GT

It's no GTX999 but it's not that old

 

The Quadro FX notebook drivers are available now. Latest for Windows 7 x64 is here.

 

Hm, didn't realise that these were the promised drivers.

I had tried using the XP version on my t61p system and it gives me the usual "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit." message.

so are we expected to perform the usual retarded inf file juggling? Is this what they meant when they said they were releasing graphics drivers for the notebook? Certainly not what I expected.

 

Oooooh, a Quadro. I, and I'm assuming the other poster, were assuming you mean the 5xx0 series, which went by 'FX'. I have no idea if it's supported or not in modern Nvidia diver releases. It wouldn't surprise me either way.

When I saw FX 570... I immediately jumped to the 5700, which in no way is close to a 32-core modern Nvidia part...until I finally realized you were talking about the Quadro line!

Well....for me that's one reason I just want a normal Geforce GPU.

 

yeah, that is one of my major regrets in buying a t61p.

Turns out while 'in theory' it can be made identical to the 8600, the practice is very different. And still no proper driver support