I cannot get these drivers to install... period?!?!
I have tried...
1. Remove Old Drivers through Add/Remove Programs
2. Reboot in to Safe Mode
3. Run Driver Sweeper 1.5.5
4. Run CCleaner 2.13
5. Reboot in to Normal Mode
6. Extract drivers to archive folder
7. Replace stock .inf with one from LV2Go
8. Run Setup.exe as Administrator
I have also tried removing the PhysX.exe and PDSetup.exe files from the archive folder (saw this suggestion over at Guru3d). I even tried installing the driver in Safe Mode, and manually updating the driver in Device Manager. I have also tried taking the stock .inf and only adding the extra device ID strings. I have even tried to uninstall my 'standard VGA' drivers in Device Manager and rebooting. Nothing seems to work...?!?! This is killing me..........
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Note - Vista x64 and GeForce 8500GT SLI
v180.43 Windows Vista 64bit | NVIDIA - Far Cry II
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, Oct 24 2008 01:37 PM
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 02:27 PM
Experienced crashes in the following games:
- Dead Space (immediately upon taking control, freezes on blackscreen; requires reboot)
- Mass Effect (screen freezes, sound freeze, then CTD)
- Silent Hill Homecoming (crashes after loading, requires reboot)
- Quantom of Solace Demo (CTD as soon as you take control)
Looks like I'm rolling all the way back to XFastest drivers.
I have experienced the same crashes in following games:
- Need for speed pro street.
- Dar cry II.
- C&C Generals 3.
- Red alert 3.
- Sniper elite.
The same type of crashes.... freezes... and jump out of the game....
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 05:34 PM
This driver definitely doesn't like my 7950 GX2. It installs ok but after rebooting the system, once you go past the windows logon screen, you just get a black screen and a mouse pointer. Not much fun, had to boot into safe mode to roll back the driver to 178.24, thankfully everything is back to normal now.
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 05:47 PM
It is likely that people will experience problems like this as these are not 'official' drivers so to speak and fixes will have to be made.
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Posted 05 November 2008 - 07:06 AM
i've tried to install farcry 2 yesterday, and funny things happend when installing the new driver. i started playing with the original bootcamp driver, slow, but it worked. then i took the new one from laptopvideo2go and now farcry tells me that no dx9 is installed. ok i thought, download and install. but the problem still exists. does anyone have in idea what i'm doing wrong? When Installing Bootcamp driver again, it works!?
Software: Vista64 Home Premium, Driver: 180.43
HW: MBP 2.53 GHz, GForce 9600M GT
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got it right now, with reinstalling everything, no idea what was going wrong
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Software: Vista64 Home Premium, Driver: 180.43
HW: MBP 2.53 GHz, GForce 9600M GT
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got it right now, with reinstalling everything, no idea what was going wrong
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Edited by hacmac, 06 November 2008 - 01:40 AM.
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 10:57 PM
it doesn't look like something wrong with the inf, but I am not sure...
I am unable to use 32 bit (high color) at my max resolution of 1440x900. 32 bit color is available for every resolution except the max. any suggestions as to what is up?
running a quadro NVS 160M in the dell latitude e6500. any help would be useful. as a note :: 180.10 worked fine on the color/resolution level.
I am unable to use 32 bit (high color) at my max resolution of 1440x900. 32 bit color is available for every resolution except the max. any suggestions as to what is up?
running a quadro NVS 160M in the dell latitude e6500. any help would be useful. as a note :: 180.10 worked fine on the color/resolution level.
Edited by veritas72, 06 November 2008 - 10:58 PM.
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Posted 09 November 2008 - 06:46 AM
it doesn't look like something wrong with the inf, but I am not sure...
I am unable to use 32 bit (high color) at my max resolution of 1440x900. 32 bit color is available for every resolution except the max. any suggestions as to what is up?
running a quadro NVS 160M in the dell latitude e6500. any help would be useful. as a note :: 180.10 worked fine on the color/resolution level.
Makes Farcry 2 work alot better but unfortunately kills my blu ray playback so had to revert back to 176.22, gives me back blu ray but Farcry 2 not so great.
Any news on a new driver that will support an 8800m GTS properly coming any time soon. Love the performance increase of the new drivers but obviously want my Blu ray to work.
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Posted 10 November 2008 - 07:34 AM
I don't know why, but on my Alienware m9750, It forces me to go into SLI mode now. Far Cry 2 performs breat and I don't mind it, but when I tried playing Team Fortress 2 or any other source engine games, the frame rate drops sinifigantly with SLI on. I tried playing TF2 with the SLI Disabled, but every time I try, the whole computer will lock up once I enter a Server. I also tried playing Far Cry 2 without the SLI and it crashes the program. Its as if the driver disabled the no SLI option.
My Computer Specs
Alienware m9750
Vista 64 U
4 Gigs Ram
Dual Core 2.14
8700m GT 512 x2 SLI
Not this is a good solution in all cases, but you might try using SLI-AA since it works differently than SLI. Both GPUs will be rendering the same frame as if it were the single GPU @ 4AA giving you 8x Multi-Sampling and 2x Super-Sampling. I know you'll be able to run Valve's games, my pair of 8600m GT do.
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Posted 10 November 2008 - 12:50 PM
Good performance, but I'm getting random BSODs on my OC'ed G80 8800GTS 640.
"Back" to the brand new 178.68s.
"Back" to the brand new 178.68s.
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Posted 11 November 2008 - 01:58 PM
Absolutely no issues here.
X3220 Quad @ 3.2Ghz
XFX 780i
4GB Patriot DDR2-800
2 OCZ 8800 GTX in SLI
Vista Ultimate 64bit
X3220 Quad @ 3.2Ghz
XFX 780i
4GB Patriot DDR2-800
2 OCZ 8800 GTX in SLI
Vista Ultimate 64bit
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Posted 14 November 2008 - 07:10 AM
ASUS G50V series Duo@2.4ghz
GF 9800M GT
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seemed to resolve the problem but display driver crashed and recovered again
less frequently then frequently again.
Played Atlantica and it crashed. WC 3 seems to work out fine though
GF 9800M GT
Vista Ultimate 64bit
seemed to resolve the problem but display driver crashed and recovered again
less frequently then frequently again.
Played Atlantica and it crashed. WC 3 seems to work out fine though
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Posted 15 November 2008 - 05:00 PM
I still cannot get either this or the 180.44 driver to install properly on the NVS 160M -- and 180.10, although it installs properly seems to corrupt the sensors or actually make the card overheat, not sure which.
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Posted 20 November 2008 - 02:53 PM
works perfect for me.
Tested games: Grid, Max Payne 1, Max Payne 2, Doom3 + Classic Doom 1.1 mod, Company of Heroes : Opposing Fronts 2.301 patched.
The only game that is not workig for me (but its all the same with older drivers) : Aliens versus Predator (looks like its nvidia fault)
Tested games: Grid, Max Payne 1, Max Payne 2, Doom3 + Classic Doom 1.1 mod, Company of Heroes : Opposing Fronts 2.301 patched.
The only game that is not workig for me (but its all the same with older drivers) : Aliens versus Predator (looks like its nvidia fault)
