HOW to enable new SLI profiles with 94.2x SLI driver

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Our SLI guru Guyver1, whose not been to bed for months in trying to get any driver other than the original Alienware 94.23 driver to work work with SLI.

He still works on this, but has found a way to have latest Game profiles with the 94.23 (should also work with 94.22 SLI driver)

Here is his secret recipe for Profile success for those needing new profiles with older drivers (SLI or not):

The Crysis demo doesnt support SLI, the full game will.

1. copy your Alienware 94.23 drivers into a folder on your laptops hard drive ( for example C:\Drivers\Alienware 94.23

2. download the latest driver version for XP 32bit from these forums (169.04 for example), create a new folder on your hard drive C:\Drivers\169_04 . Double click the file once downloaded to unzip it and specifly the new 169_04 folder as the unzip location.

3. in this new 169_04 folder there will be 2 files: nvapps.xml and nvwsapps.xml. Copy them and paste them into your new C:\Drivers\Alienware 24.23 folder, it will ask you if you want to overwrite existing files, SAY YES.

4. goto Add/Remove programs in windows control panel and remove your nvidia drivers.

5. reboot laptop.

6. (optional) download Driver cleaner Pro or any other nvidia driver 'cleaner' and reboot your laptop into safe mode (to boot into safe mode, when you turn the laptop on keep pressing F8 until you get a menu system, choose safe mode or safe mode with networking). once you get into safe mode, run driver cleaner to clean out the remaining files and registry entries.

On this note I've never really found any need to do this as the uninstall process works perfectly fine, some people do however seem to get problems if they dont use a driver cleaner.

7. reboot into windows normally and cancel the 2 pop up windows saying that windows has found new hardware, just press cancel both times.

8. goto your C:\Drivers\Alienware 94.23 folder and run the setup.exe and install the drivers as normal. you will now have the 94.23 drivers but with ALL the SLI profiles for all the latest games from driver version 169.04.

9. Ignore any game telling you your drivers are out of date

If SLI technology and trying to get it enabled on Intel chipset based machines is for you then head on over to this thread