Guest xo512 Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 This driver is perfect for me. The only problem I have is that it's only switching between 3d low perf and 3d high perf mode. It never goes to standard 2d mode even on battery. Does anyone have any suggestion ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 19, 2008 Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 This driver is perfect for me. The only problem I have is that it's only switching between 3d low perf and 3d high perf mode. It never goes to standard 2d mode even on battery. Does anyone have any suggestion ? We already discussed that because its Alienware, they probably purposely omitted the last stepping to force their hardware to perform faster. A suggestion if you you want the lowest setting, would be to use a previous driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.J Posted October 19, 2008 Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 I've scroll wheel lag problem in IE7 since 177.79 xD If I turn off/on AERO, it'll disappear, but I should do it everytime I boot to vista !!! <177.79 and 176.xx works fine ! Any solution ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kum Zblj Posted October 19, 2008 Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 I've scroll wheel lag problem in IE7 since 177.79 xDIf I turn off/on AERO, it'll disappear, but I should do it everytime I boot to vista !!! <177.79 and 176.xx works fine ! Any solution ? Yes, use Opera :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suckacheese Posted October 19, 2008 Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 I have been using 174.74 for quite a while on my Sony Vaio VGN-AR550 and been pretty happy with it. This is primarly a HTPC machine for me. However, this driver blue-screens Vista on occasion so I thought I'd try something newer. This driver seems fantastic from a stability and performance standpoint, but it ALWAYS scales the output down so when I look at it on my HDMI-connected HDTV I have a big black box around it. This never happens with 174.74. There don't appear to be any changes in the control panel that will fix this either (i.e. the desktop scaling buttons are greyed out). Is there something I'm missing in the INF? I'd love to be able to use newer drivers, but I miss using my full screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wook Posted October 19, 2008 Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 try 178.24 inf by DOX. has some tweaks and he has also added resolutions. The tweaks may include HDMI output settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrItneY Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Tested and Approuved on my Alienware m15x with a 8700M GT !!! :) It rocks ! I'm done with Alienware's downcloacked drivers !!! :P Many thanks to the team ! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Sakowski Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Tested and Approuved on my Alienware m15x with a 8700M GT !!! :) It rocks ! I'm done with Alienware's downcloacked drivers !!! :P Many thanks to the team ! :) After downoloadind - cannot extract. Happened to anyone? Standard XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrItneY Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 After downoloadind - cannot extract. Happened to anyone? Standard XP Name of this topic : v179.13 Vista 32bit Maybe it's because of this :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Actually this driver for me offers best performance in all my games but it is a little buggy. Resolution switches to 1680x1050 coming out of afk over night. Every time I leave computer on to download something, I move mouse and it comes back in 1680x1050 instead of 1920x1200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Sakowski Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Name of this topic : v179.13 Vista 32bit Maybe it's because of this :) Very smart - does the same in VISTA, that is why I tried on XP system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nefrusy Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Wow... this driver fixes nearly all of the problems I've had with different versions since... 97.46 haha! I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 with Go 7900 GS, and Truemobile 360 bluetooth module. When I connected my BT mouse using the laptop's module, it would often disconnect, especially after UAC dialogs popped up. I did some searching, and read that Forceware drivers caused USB resets... apparently the BT module couldn't handle it well. Apparently 97.46 was the last driver that didn't have the problem... installed it, and fixed the problem. But the driver was so old, it wasn't a good solution. Anyway, 179.13 seems to be the first driver since 97.46 to fix the USB reset issue! Also, PowerMizer (mostly) works... at least as well as 175xx drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaD Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 (edited) Test and approuved on my Asus X57Vn (Geforce 9650gt 1GbDDR2) ! :P Old drivers : Unreal tournament 3 :1024*768 Graphics options(the both) 1/5 Some lags This drivers Unreal tournament 3 :1440*900 Graphics options(the both)3/5 No lags many frags :) Tanks to the team ! :) Edited October 21, 2008 by GaD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrItneY Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 (edited) Very smart - does the same in VISTA, that is why I tried on XP system. lol, ok, didn't want to "hurt". You can get it here : http://rapidshare.com/files/156099609/179.zip (Zip version :) ) Edited October 21, 2008 by BrItneY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Far Cry 2 Running awesome :) look: Running on a 8600m GT driver: 179,13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffer Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 All works but still no OCing allowed for me :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thomaskc Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Howcome there is no x64 release of this driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.I. Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Hi! Before installing a new driver, i have to deinstall my previous driver, is that true? how do i deinstall the previous driver?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.I. Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I installed this driver and rebooted my laptop, but windows doesn't seem to recognize the driver!! When I check which driver my card now uses, there is still the name of my previous driver! Is this normal, or did I do something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarthyUK Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Hello, Will these be the best drivers for My XPS M1530? With the 8600m GT DDR3? Many Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 One of the best. Or 178.24; 180.43 is maybe still a little buggy, but might be worth testing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marucins Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 XPS M1710 (C2D 7600G / 7950 GTX / 2x2GB 667) 3DMark06: 5084 SM2.0 Score: 2125 HDR/SM3.0 Score: 1979 CPU Score: 1935 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marucins Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 3D Mark 06 5084 SM2.0 Sc: 2125 HDR/SM3.0 Sc: 1979 CPU Sc: 1935 XPS 1710 *Intel® Core?2 CPU T7600G @ 2.33GHz *NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX (575/600 @ 570/595) *2 x 2.0 GB 667.0 MHz Windows Vista ? Business x86 (Version 6.0.6001) Service Pack 1 (v1.0) DirectX 10.0 (4.09.00.0904) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jhabh Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 What about the stuttering isius on this one? the only driver without stuttering that i found is the 163.67 driver, but that has bad performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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