Posts by Zero Cool X

I thought TOSlink and S/PDIF were almost the same thing, TOSlink being the cable and S/PDIF being the type of signal. Anyway, yes, the PS3 also uses the same TOSlink cable as my m9700, it's the one with the square connector.

But the S/PDIF cable is able to carry the 6 channels (5 channels for the speakers and 1 for the subwoofer) since the signal is digital, it's just that the digital optical output on my laptop is just sending a stereo signal. That's how I...

Hi, I recently bought a digital optical cable to connect my 9700's sound to my audio receiver, but I noticed I'm not able to output 5.1 sound to my speakers. I've already changed the configuration in the sound properties to 5.1 surround...

That's normal for Bioshock and Unreal Tournament 3, it's an issue with the Unreal 3 Engine, both games use it. As for Crysis, i'm guessing that happens because it's still beta, I also get the same slow loading textures.

I don't know if this works, but has any 9750 owner tried using the newest nvapps.xml with the drivers from Alienware? At least that way you may be able to use both cards to play the newest games without having to manually create the SLI...

Well, I just found this thread in the laptopvideo2go forums, and it seems you won't be able to install just any driver and get SLI to work. It seems that the 9750 uses an additional chip to enable SLI, so it requires special drivers in...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr.Les I am not sure why but anything apart from the original driver always comes up in 3DMark as not supporting SLI. COuld someone send me a M9700 specific inf...

Like MurderCityDevil said, there are a lot of issues with Vista regarding SLI, but even when using XP in order to effectively use SLI you have to install drivers that have the correct SLI profiles for each game. In order for a game to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hammerhead Very strange. You're sure you are getting the xp 32 bit version and all...? Yes, I made sure I downloaded the correct version and the modified inf for each driver...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hammerhead No. I'm using the 165.01 driver at the moment. If you're having driver issues, get driver cleaner, it's a free program and will remove all the elements of the old drivers. ...