Robbo the Second Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 I had all sorts of problems with the previous 260.xx drivers (Black screens, Crashing, Leftover bits after Driver Sweeper in Safe-Mode leading to a Full Rebuild), but these Verde Drivers installed without a hitch without the need for a Modded .inf... No Control Panel Problems, in fact it is 10x more responsive than the 19x.xx drivers. I'm not sure if it is the "placebo effect", but my system seems a little 'peppier' and less 'crashier' Haven't had a chance to test any games (got to bring home the bacon), but I think I'm gonna keep 'em !!! Exactly the same for me, the NVidia Control Panel is faster & a lot more responsive than before - it was so slow before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fire8131 Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 don't have gt420m driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest_mylo Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 hummm...modded INF for this one??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arjcba Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 I installed this on my 8600M GT and it's working great. The first time i tried to run the setup it said my vga was not compatible, i clicked ok and the NEXT button was not grayed out anymore. Installation and the clean install works ok but it makes you reboot twice (really annoying) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arjcba Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 I installed this on my 8600M GT and it's working great. The first time i tried to run the setup it said my vga was not compatible, i clicked ok and the NEXT button was not grayed out anymore. Installation and the clean install works ok but it makes you reboot twice (really annoying) I forgot to say that GPUZ show CUDA, PhysX and DirectCompute are working but OpenCL not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo the Second Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 I forgot to say that GPUZ show CUDA, PhysX and DirectCompute are working but OpenCL not I second that, GPUZ showing OpenCL not working. To be honest, I don't think it's an issue for me, I don't think games use OpenCL (not the ones I have), and I don't think I have any applications that use it. This is something that has happened to me for many drivers before this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 runs much hotter than my previous drivers(257.something) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo the Second Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 runs much hotter than my previous drivers(257.something) Fair Do's. These drivers run at exactly the same temperatures as pretty much all other drivers I've tried on my system. The only exceptions are drivers that haven't been letting the GPU downclock from 3D to 2D clocks when it needs to, but that's been a long time since any driver version has not downclocked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Timur Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 The Clean Installation option removed my Realtek audio driver btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest R@ge Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 just work fine on my nvidia Gforce gt 325m - games seems to run faster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arjcba Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 runs much hotter than my previous drivers(257.something) Thats because the powermizer is not working in this driver i had to download the powermizer manager and enable it to not use full clock speed all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 Thats because the powermizer is not working in this driver i had to download the powermizer manager and enable it to not use full clock speed all the time thanks, that would explain it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerXML Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Powermizer working on my notebook, checked via eVGA Precision (2.0) tool. Haven't had much time to test my notebook, but AMAZING results on my desktop in regards to performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nautis1100 Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Powermizer also does not seem to function on my VGN Vaio Z in Hybrid Graphics. (Even after activated using PowerMizer Manager.) OpenCL and PhysX also seem to be having issues. Could be due to my modding though. Still working on em. EDIT: Very Curious :) ... I now have PowerMizer, OpenCL and PhysX working and I am not sure exactly how. :) Nvidia Control Panel seems to like to lockup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Powermizer also does not seem to function on my VGN Vaio Z in Hybrid Graphics. (Even after activated using PowerMizer Manager.) OpenCL and PhysX also seem to be having issues. Could be due to my modding though. Still working on em. EDIT: Very Curious :) ... I now have PowerMizer, OpenCL and PhysX working and I am not sure exactly how. :) Nvidia Control Panel seems to like to lockup. You should just feel lucky that the drivers work at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beyond Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 OpenCL also works fine for me. I just removed the subsys from another 8400M GT because mine is vaio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Timur Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 Is there any howto that explains how I can modify the INF files to make the setup run on my bootcamped Macbook Pro (9600M GT)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samozen Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 can you please put the changes that you made for nvidia 8400m gt,vgn-ar71m,thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodfreyOuwens Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 (edited) Downloaded and installed the 64 bit version for desktop. So far so good.... flash does seem to run a little better now, maybe its just my mind playing tricks on me :) oh yeah I installed this on: i7 -920 Rampage II Extreme 12GB 10666 G.skill 2x30GB SSD Raid 0 BFG GTX 295 Edited September 15, 2010 by GodfreyOuwens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy16 Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 This driver works fine in my Vaio FZ-190 with 8400M GT. Used the nvszc inf file (Sony inf - has settings for all recent GPU's), and copied some settings from the nvmt inf for 8400M GT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xcceltech Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 i have tested this beta driver and it works perfectly fine on my nvidia geforce 7150m/630m after i modded almost all of the inf files to support my card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pipes Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 This driver works fine in my Vaio FZ-190 with 8400M GT. Used the nvszc inf file (Sony inf - has settings for all recent GPU's), and copied some settings from the nvmt inf for 8400M GT. can you explain me how to get the drive to give to your sony vaio?? Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Minotaur Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 In Windows NT (Vista/7) the tool 'pnputil.exe' is your friend! I don't see why Drivercleaner etc haven't been able to integrate the features of pnputil and use it to clean out those stored system drivers. That is a reason why Drivercleaner alone wasn't completely useful when trying to clean out a system. On rebooting Windows after cleaning, it would just install the latest version kept in the store (undoing most of what Drivercleaner cleaned out), just before you install manually whatever drivers. I haven't tried this yet with the new driver install technique, but I would reboot into safe mode when the nVidia drivers reboot the system to install the new drivers. Run Drivercleaner & CCleaner and then reboot again and let the nVidia drivers continue installing. Good on nVidia for changing the way it installs drivers! With the new technique they use, it stops the system from trying to install drivers kept in the driver store :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Diceman Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 Heres the thing, if people did clean installs, rather then upgrade installs, it always removes the driverstore backup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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