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New M90 Drivers out

post #1 of 9
1/11/07 at 8:15pm
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Just realised Dell has released the driver for FX3500m (Forceware 92.77).
Tried installing it for my FX2500m...seemed to be working fine. Didnt noticed much of a big difference except Autodesk Maya seemed to run much better. It used to crash previously and I replicated the same scenario this time again with no problems.

Anyone else tried it? Any issues?

Cheers
Kelvin
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post #2 of 9
1/11/07 at 9:23pm
Thanks for that. as noted here substantial improvements in maya have been reported for the 3500M. It doesn't really surprise me that this is more due to drivers than to silicon.


I'm downloading it now ...
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post #3 of 9
1/12/07 at 2:49pm
Please let me know your experiences with this driver. I am using the lattest LaptopVideo2Go driver and I am still not satisfied with some of my gaming performance.
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post #4 of 9
1/12/07 at 3:23pm
Ok, uninstalled the old drivers, removed the video card in the hardware manager, rebooted into safe mode, driver clear,registry clean, install, reboot.

It uses the yukky new control panel.

DirectX performance is about the same, 4733 in 3DMark06 at stock clocks compared to 4720 to 4745 with other drivers (changing driver seems to have minimal effect on 3DMark06 with this card).

OpenGL performance has *dropped* to 3841 cinebench (HL Ratio 9.82) compared to 4781 cinebench (HL ration 12.82) with laptopvideo2go 91.36; tested using Cinebench 9.5

I didn't test any of the new features that are supposedly there like DVD decoding improvements.
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post #5 of 9
1/12/07 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by .PoNeH
Please let me know your experiences with this driver. I am using the lattest LaptopVideo2Go driver and I am still not satisfied with some of my gaming performance.

The latest meaning which driver number?
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post #6 of 9
1/27/07 at 6:27am
Here's my Cinebench with the 3500M. I am also running all of my processes (a-virus, spydoc, smart card, 802, dell stuff, and a whole bunch of shit in my registry [application references etc.]).

CINEBENCH 9.5
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Tester :

Processor : M90 - All On
MHz : 2.33 Ghz
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : XP Pro SP2

Graphics Card : 3500M
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

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Rendering (Single CPU): 378 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 689 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.82

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 439 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 1796 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 4693 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 10.69

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I've been looking around at benchmarks and need some help. How is it that people with 7600GT (OC or not) can get significantly higher cinebench OpenGL scores than me...
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post #7 of 9
1/27/07 at 6:28am
BTW. Thank you for your help Chris....

And, yes.... I did find myself bragging a bit...lol!
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post #8 of 9
1/27/07 at 4:59pm
So I guess it isn't a worthy upgrade? I am running L2G's 97.92 and I really don't like the interface it uses. I liked the simplicity of Dell's stock driver, but I seem to get a little better performance with these. Anyone know what driver I should go for as far as performance goes?
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post #9 of 9
1/28/07 at 12:22pm
For those considering it, just reporting some info on (My experience) with the new drivers (ver 92.77) All in all they seem to work fine, however this is with very limited use as I’ve not had much time to test them out

One notable bug (again in My experience) the backlight did NOT dim/disengage when the lid was closed

This problem occurred even with a proper driver cleaning

Process used to troubleshoot issue

Properly clean existing drivers. > install new drivers (ver 92.77)

Backlight issue

Properly clean existing drivers. > install new drivers (v.84.29)

No backlight issue

Properly clean existing drivers. > install new drivers (ver 92.77)

Backlight issue


Hope this helps
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