Guest Bennett Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 If i use these drivers, does it mean i have to press f8 at startup everytime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQSTELUSH Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Updated the comparison too -> http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....st&p=103034 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galdere Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 If i use these drivers, does it mean i have to press f8 at startup everytime? No, you don't have to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritas72 Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 If i use these drivers, does it mean i have to press f8 at startup everytime? as noted above, no, you don't. you only need to do that for unsigned drivers (these are signed, they just arent WHQL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritas72 Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 For anyone that wants to take a look at these drivers as compared with the 180.xx series drivers and the inf I posted on http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....showtopic=22228 , I would greatly appreciate it. It seems it must have been an inf problem, because with the install of the 185.20 drivers, the fan sensor information and control seems to be back. I will test these to see if I have the overheating problem still, but I would bet that it is fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerXML Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Ok, nice drives, but my GPU won't throttle with them, stays at full power and after I removed them I had 2 control panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdl Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Do you think that it's better with modded inf or with the original one?? 8600M GT 512MB GDDR2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushu Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 I have just tried this on Windows Vista 64-bit instead of Windows XP 32-bit and have received a BSOD at startup in comparison to the error I have received in XP which is that it started up in 4-bit colors and low resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bennett Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Had a few lockups with these. I get multi-coloured rectangles. Have to like power button at fron of the PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goldfaber Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 Had a few lockups with these.I get multi-coloured rectangles. Have to like power button at fron of the PC. HP hw6600 with quadro fx1700 - the same thing - multi coloured rectangles once a day - restart needed... But one good thing - MAXTREME installed manually is working !! For 4 days no blue screen as before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goldfaber Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 HP hw6600 with quadro fx1700 - the same thing - multi coloured rectangles once a day - restart needed...But one good thing - MAXTREME installed manually is working !! For 4 days no blue screen as before. i forget about the main thing about my maxtreme working - i've got VISTA 64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 These drivers make Vista 64 look like garbage on my Dell Precision M6400. The display is all gray and washed out. The same thing happened when I installed the NVIDIA drivers on my M6400 with Windows 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Greg Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Good Morning Everyone :) Since I'm posting for the first time, I just wanted to say this is a great community :) Keep up the good work! I've got HP Compaq 8710p and every 18x.xx driver is causing display artifacts to appear in boxes on the top of the screen after I've played any game. Does anybody know what this could be caused by? Cheers! Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hidavi Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 (edited) 4974 in 3DMark06 The highest I've ever gotten. Windows 7 x64 Build 7000 T7300 CPU 4GB RAM 8600M GT 256MB GDDR3 550/1000 clocks. Edited January 9, 2009 by Hidavi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest judzin Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 good drivers...but have problem with stand by mode...after it my pc doest turn on...black screen...helps only restart( what to do?=(( same thing with all 18x series drivers=( gforce 8400m gs vista 64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mafiro Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 hey there, made you a Rapidshare Mirror: http://rapidshare.com/files/181877384/18520_vista64.exe Thanks for the driver :-) greetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 dirty install = Nvidia Control Panel on the desktop right click menu clean install = Nvidia Control Panel is gone from the desktop right click menu Vista = Ambient occlusion Windows 7 = No ambient occlusion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keffo Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 (edited) Hi, Just downloaded 185.20 (Vista 64-bit) and the install went fine (used modded INF). Im running with a 8400M GS and after the install the fan went crazy when I get to Logon to Windows. Rpm's at max! I thought it was just temporary, but still after starting up, reading this thread, check version in nvidia controlpanel the fan is still running at maximum rpm.. oh, wait.. Now it slowed down. Nevermind maybe? Not sure? Something I should check? And by the way, this happens even after shutting down and restarting. Anyone knows good ways to check temperature on a 8400M GS? Thanks, Best regards EDIT Ah, nevermind again. Seems to finally work with GPU-Z? Is the temperature reliable? Edited January 11, 2009 by keffo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BexX Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 The no control panel error is caused by the modded inf. Infact this inf is not needed, as the driver seems to support mobile gpus aout of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tard Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 good drivers...but have problem with stand by mode...after it my pc doest turn on...black screen...helps only restart( what to do?=(( same thing with all 18x series drivers=( gforce 8400m gs vista 64 It's a bug in the 18x.xx drivers (with some mobile cards, including 8400M GS), install the latest 179.xx driver and it'll work fine :) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guilherme Françoso Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 (edited) it have no pm ,need add reg by ourself;PerfLevelSrc 3333 PowerMizerDefault 0 PowerMizerEnable 1 PowerMizerLevel 0 PowerMizerLevelAC 0 PowerSaverHsyncON 0 And how do I do that? Edited January 13, 2009 by Guilherme Françoso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper114 Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Just got a new laptop, a Gateway P6860FX with a 512MB 8800M GTS. Installed these drivers, they work fine for me, but there's a problem in the Control Panel. Whenever I try to set individual Program Settings in the Manage 3D Settings, each drop-down box does not appear. It acts like it does, but it doesn't actually show and nothing can be selected. Only the Global Settings can be set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundlefly76 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I am using a late 2008 aluminum unibody MacBook (2.4 Ghz model) with the NVidia 9400M video card, 256k shared mem. Operating system is Windows 7 64-bit. Although both the NVidia mobile drivers and your package will both install the driver files on my machine without complaining, the driver is not applied to my video card (still reads Standard VGA after reboot). If I use the 'have disk' method, Windows 7 will appropriately list the 9400M DoX as a match for my video card, but if I select it to install, I get the following message: "The driver selected for this device does not support this version of Windows' I get the same error using the NVidia website mobile drivers. I have not had any problems installing NVidia Vista drivers on my Dell laptop running Windows 7. Anyone know if there is a way to trick Windows 7 into trying it anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eason Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I love these drivers- had to use the modded .inf to install on my 9600M GT, but FPS went from 151 in 180.84.1 to 172 in CS:S. L4D seems to run better as well. Lower temps too, these are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timboj Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I'm getting some god awful graphics issues in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts. All other games seem to work fine, however. Also an issue with returning from sleep mode and using WMP. BSOD.... No other problems that others are having with desktop manager and whatnot. Rolling back to 180.70 for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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