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Vista RC-1 & Nvidia Go Drivers

post #1 of 26
9/7/06 at 2:49am
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Is there any place to get stable laptop nvidia drivers for Windows Vista RC-1? The Microsoft video drivers which come with RC-1 do not perform very well. We need drivers which will allow aero to work also.
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post #2 of 26
9/7/06 at 3:04am
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_96.33.html

Should be pretty stable... YMMV.
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post #3 of 26
9/7/06 at 3:19am
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Thats for desktop cards only.
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post #4 of 26
9/7/06 at 3:43am
Get drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ or http://www.tweaksrus.com/.
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post #5 of 26
9/7/06 at 8:41am
Is there any way to adjust colors with the 96.33 modded INF. I am still unable to adjust digital vibrance, brightness or Contrast. With my crappy samsung screen, adjusting those settings makes my display look much nicer. Any help would be great. Oh yeah I have intsalled the NVtray 1.0.4.8. It works but still no way to adjust colors.

cheers
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post #6 of 26
9/7/06 at 10:02am
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Originally Posted by rct23
Thats for desktop cards only.

Laptopvideo2go has the modded inf for the Nvidia release here http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...howtopic=10932

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post #7 of 26
9/7/06 at 2:11pm
Hey guys, is anyone having problems with the 96.33 nVidia drivers? I cannot use Vista RC1 (same issue with 5536, NO issues at all with Beta 2 though) because the display drivers keep crashing. I'm not sure whats causing the problem, but here's what i've come up with:

1.) Nvidia display drivers do not correctly detect my laptop's LCD screen (when in the nvidia control panel, when I try to identify the monitor, nothing happens, however, in the windows display settings, identify the monitor shows a large 1 in the middle of the screen like it's supposed to).

2.) The drivers are either underclocking or overclocking the GPU for some unknown reason.

The problem that i'm getting is SEVERE artifacting on the display, tearing, glitches then the driver will either crash or make the OS lock up. If i remove the display adapter from the control panel, no issues at all until I reboot and windows reinstalls the default drivers.

Here are a few screen shots that I took to show you all what I mean by the artifacts, its pretty bad:

http://www.nfynite.com/vista/DD_Crash_RC1_1.jpg
http://www.nfynite.com/vista/DD_Crash_RC1_2.jpg
http://www.nfynite.com/vista/DD_Crash_RC1_3.jpg
http://www.nfynite.com/vista/DD_Crash_RC1_4.jpg

Is anyone else having or had this problem? And if you had it, how did you fix it? This is driving me crazy.
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post #8 of 26
9/7/06 at 2:15pm
I had problems with every set of Vista drivers from Nvidia so far. The 8x series would just crash during install and the 96.33 ones gave me bad artifacts in games. All I could do was uninstall them, and use the ones that came with Vista (WDDM), which seem to be fine.

I am still waiting for some stable drivers that will let me overclock my 7800go again. Running at Dell's stock speeds just blows!
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post #9 of 26
9/7/06 at 2:44pm
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Originally Posted by Garbuckle
I had problems with every set of Vista drivers from Nvidia so far. The 8x series would just crash during install and the 96.33 ones gave me bad artifacts in games. All I could do was uninstall them, and use the ones that came with Vista (WDDM), which seem to be fine.

I am still waiting for some stable drivers that will let me overclock my 7800go again. Running at Dell's stock speeds just blows!

Even the drivers that came with Vista do the exact same thing. So i don't know whats going on (this is also a clean install as well, not an upgrade, i'm dual booting it with XP MCE 2005).
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post #10 of 26
9/7/06 at 7:05pm
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Originally Posted by IceBreakerG
Even the drivers that came with Vista do the exact same thing. So i don't know whats going on (this is also a clean install as well, not an upgrade, i'm dual booting it with XP MCE 2005).


I think this must be a 7800go or a 6800 series problem. I am running the 96.33drivers on a 7800gtx and I have had no problems with them at all. I did overclock my card with the 7800 gtx overclock disk(NVFLASH). 450/1250. I can't see that making the difference. Can you use a similar disk and over clock the 6800 series or the 7800 go?

Cheers
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post #11 of 26
9/7/06 at 9:57pm
Hmmm....thats a strange one...my 9300 with the 6800 Go works perfectly fine with the Vista drivers and the laptopvideo2go ones.

Sorry I can't be of more help.
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post #12 of 26
9/7/06 at 11:13pm
I did notice that the 96.33 available from nvidia did NOT support the 7800go outright, and I had to use a modded inf to get it to work. I notice that laptopvideo2go now has their own version of the 96.33 available, but I have yet to test it. I will try it once I install RC1 this weekend (I am currently running Pre-RC1)
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post #13 of 26
9/7/06 at 11:19pm
Alright, with the help of Riva Tuner, i found something interesting. I'll let the screen shots speak for themselves (pay attention to the clock and memory frequencies):

Riva Tuner in Windows XP




Riva Tuner in Windows Vista RC1


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post #14 of 26
9/7/06 at 11:28pm
I use RivaTuner, too. It sucks that there are no supported Forceware drivers for Vista yet, otherwise, that would be one way to overclock. It seems like you are seeing the same thing as me. In XP, I could overclock to what I wanted, but in Vista, it defaults to the normal clock/mem speeds... which sucks.
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post #15 of 26
9/7/06 at 11:40pm
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Originally Posted by Garbuckle
I use RivaTuner, too. It sucks that there are no supported Forceware drivers for Vista yet, otherwise, that would be one way to overclock. It seems like you are seeing the same thing as me. In XP, I could overclock to what I wanted, but in Vista, it defaults to the normal clock/mem speeds... which sucks.

Thats the problem. It seems like its running at less than 50% of the normal speed (which to my understanding, if its clocked too low, will cause issues as well). Here's the kicker. I rebooted my laptop from XP to Vista to reinstall the 96.33 drivers and the display is screwed up. It redetects my video card as a 6800 GS!!! It installs the 95.64 drivers for it, then tells me to reboot. I reboot, its still a 6800 GS!! So i have no clue whats going on, but its doing this on a clean install so i think my pc is possessed.

Edit: WTF??? I just checked Riva Tuner again, and guess what? The damn clock and memory frequencies are where they're supposed to be!!! Here's a few more screen shots, i have to have proof of this lol:



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post #16 of 26
9/8/06 at 12:23am
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Originally Posted by the_scotsman
Hmmm....thats a strange one...my 9300 with the 6800 Go works perfectly fine with the Vista drivers and the laptopvideo2go ones.

Sorry I can't be of more help.


So you have a control panel where you can change digital vibrance, adjust AA and AF, monitor your cards temps etc....I think not!

96.33 nvidia control panel doesn't function properly in Vista RC1, it either doesn't respond and causes an error and has NO advanced 3D options to adjust any video settings.
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post #17 of 26
9/8/06 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by lowdog
So you have a control panel where you can change digital vibrance, adjust AA and AF, monitor your cards temps etc....I think not!

Where did I say I had a working control panel idiot?

All I said was that my 6800 is working fine with no problems...
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post #18 of 26
9/8/06 at 3:30am
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Originally Posted by the_scotsman
Where did I say I had a working control panel idiot?

All I said was that my 6800 is working fine with no problems...

Ah, love the way you immediately retaliate with the "idiot" insinuation. Good ol aussie intolerance. Glad I'm not one of those type of Australians.
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post #19 of 26
9/8/06 at 10:49pm
Well...maybe you should have a look at my name...Im not an Aussie...and even if I was, what does that have to do with me branding you an idiot...you accussed me of being a liar.
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post #20 of 26
9/9/06 at 12:46am
Well, because for some reason, things were getting worse instead of better (USB Flash drive stopped working in Vista), I decided to go ahead and reinstall RC1. Since the reinstall, I've noticed that the GPU is still running at 125mhz, however, the artifact issue I was having is not present (at least not yet). I just played the Flight Simulator X demo (probably not the best game to try out but its all i had for the moment) and it ran decent (could be much better, but its probably just that game). So far so good. I've noticed through monitoring the clock speeds in Riva Tuner that the GPU throttles up when i start doing anything that relies on the GPU. Not sure if this is normal or not, i thought it was supposed to run at full speed all the time.
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