zipper Posted September 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 263.14 is here, you have to download and use the modified inf, too. http://forums.laptop...r__all__st__200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takezo Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 263.14 is here, you have to download and use the modified inf, too. http://forums.laptop...r__all__st__200 I have already downloaded from there, but it doesn't work, unfortunately. I get some kind of "installation failed" when I try to install it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Did you try 280.19? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Now tried 280.47 developer driver with modified inf. No problems, quite good with DX 10 and 9, older benchies not so good. Loses a little to 280.19. Screen seems darker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 285.27 beta tried - problematic and bad performer like 280.26. Binned instantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takezo Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Did you try 280.19? I didn't. I just saw now the benchmark and it went pretty well, but it seems that it loses to a bunch of drivers at 3DMarkVant, but it still got a nice score. Do you recommend it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 It's one of the best. Don't look too far back in the benchmarks, Win7 sp1 did affect the benchmarks somewhat negatively, especially Vantage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takezo Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 (edited) It's one of the best. Don't look too far back in the benchmarks, Win7 sp1 did affect the benchmarks somewhat negatively, especially Vantage. Didn't know about this. Thanks for the tip. Would you know if the difference is noticeable? I'm reading some articles regarding that, and it seems that the performance drop is quite insignicantly. I don't know if I am right. Edited September 14, 2011 by Takezo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 It's just my feeling, didn't make any tests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takezo Posted September 17, 2011 Report Share Posted September 17, 2011 I'm sorry for asking this, because it will for sure give you some work, but if you could, would you run the test driver test again with an older one, that was benchmarked before the update of SP1? Just an older one that got a high score, like 257.15 or 197.85. Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2011 I did, didn't write the results up but Vantage did drop some 200-300 points, other tests just 0 to 50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takezo Posted September 17, 2011 Report Share Posted September 17, 2011 I did, didn't write the results up but Vantage did drop some 200-300 points, other tests just 0 to 50. Thanks zipper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Leko Posted September 18, 2011 Report Share Posted September 18, 2011 Im on asus g71gx quad 2.0ghz I switched from 275.27 to 280.19 and dead island seems to run worse, i want a gamming driver, what do you think is the better now? 280.19 or i revert back to 275.27? any other option? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2011 Try 285.27 as it has some gaming enhancements over 28x.xx drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 285.38 beta tried with original inf. No problems, same performance level as 285.27 (= not fast). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Leko Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 DId you test the new official 285.62 driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted October 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 OK, 285.62 WHQL tried. No problems, but amazingly one of the worst performers in a long time, especially on older benchmarks. Sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Leko Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Did you test it gamming? for example with bf3 (driver supposed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted October 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Yes, more fluid + better fps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted November 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 285.67 WHQL tried - no problems found. A pretty lame performer but a hair better than 285.62 with old software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted November 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Now 285.79 beta driver tried. Nothing to complain - about the same (crappy) performance as the predecessor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted November 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 290.36 notebook WHQL tried, with original inf. Nothing to complain; as crappy performer as the predecessors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted December 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 295.18 Asus driver with the original inf - utterly crap. They succeeded to break the custom mode creation plus larger screenmodes and the performance sucks like the predecessors. Quickly back to 280.19. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellatan Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) Thanks for making this thread! I have some questions though. I'm using Sager NP8662. I followed your advice and installed 280.19, while writing in a single line with my card name into original INF. I wanted to OC it with Nvidia System Tools to 600/900/1500. However, later on when I tried to test it with Vantage and 3dMark06, they keep crashing with "IDirect3DDevice9::Present failed: Device lost (D3DERR_DEVICELOST)" When I attempt to rerun the benchmark, the performance according to those benchmark tools drops exactly in half. I guess when it crashes, something turns off and or they discount a test. So instead of my usual 10000 and 4400 scores, I keep getting 6000 and 2200. Vantage test ran successfully only once with overclock and gave me the highest score yet, 4872. The temps stay relatively cool - under 75C with load. So what could be the problem? Is it the driver? Is it benchmark software issue or my OC is really not stable? I played some games with that OC for an hour, and they seem stable. Am I really getting half of the performance though? Have you tried to OC with that driver, and what do you think are the safe clocks without overvolting? Edited December 15, 2011 by Ellatan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted December 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 That's possible OC behaviour - the temperature may not rise too high but the driver yet crashes - that error is typical and I've got it a couple of times when OCing. The "safe" margin varies wildly - my GTX 260M barely tolerates 10% (principally the original default); my former Quadro FX 1600 did about 20+% and older go5700 about as much (until it died...) So it's trial and error time. Raising the laptop/using a cooler probably gives some leeway. The driver tends to have some effect into the crash behaviour so even more testing still needed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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