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post #21 of 35
8/10/08 at 1:48am
Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 and even COD 4 works better. Only 2 I have tried since installing.
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post #22 of 35
8/10/08 at 1:52am
COD 4,gohst recon 2,BF2,Command And conquer series,Need for speed and many others works fine,,,so can u describe ur problem or take a photo for it
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post #23 of 35
8/10/08 at 1:55am
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Originally Posted by destruya View Post
Which startup process do you kill to get rid of it? I'm down to a low 33 stock, and the four startup items still enabled in MSCONFIG are:

1. rundll32 (the nvHotkey one)
2. NvCpl
3. NvMcTray
4. nwiz

I'd like to keep my color profiles, so killing the process that does that might annoy me a bit. I'd assume that's NvCpl for the control panel where the color changes are made. But which ones can die/be disabled?
what were talking about is not a registry start-up. Go to your services list and disable NVIDIA Display Drivers Service. But as mentioned it does not seem to be a problem with this version so i would leave it alone.
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post #24 of 35
8/10/08 at 11:13am
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Originally Posted by saifthamer83 View Post
download the modded inf also and replace it after extracting the driver then install the new driver
Thanks! I've got it downloading and look into that as soon as the Men's basketball is over and I regain use my my 1730.
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post #25 of 35
8/10/08 at 12:21pm
Gears of War used to crash and freeze requiring hard resart. Then I would get a CPU overheat error. Now it runs fine. Seems the new drivers utilize the CPU less and balance the load. Both CPU and GPU temps are way lower after 30 minutes of gaming. These drivers are a godsend.
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post #26 of 35
8/10/08 at 12:24pm
good to hear that
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post #27 of 35
8/11/08 at 9:00am
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Originally Posted by destruya View Post
Which startup process do you kill to get rid of it? I'm down to a low 33 stock, and the four startup items still enabled in MSCONFIG are:

1. rundll32 (the nvHotkey one)
2. NvCpl
3. NvMcTray
4. nwiz

I'd like to keep my color profiles, so killing the process that does that might annoy me a bit. I'd assume that's NvCpl for the control panel where the color changes are made. But which ones can die/be disabled?
I have disabled all of these, too, but I use the Spyder software to load my color-calibrated profiles. Just disable them one by one and see what you are missing. Startup Control Panel still is the best tool for working with startup programs, on XP and Vista.
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post #28 of 35
8/11/08 at 11:58am
Nvidia has also released a new Physics driver. Seems to work awesome also. http://http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_8.06.12_whql.html
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post #29 of 35
8/11/08 at 3:00pm
Anyone try this on a Xps M170 with just xp?
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post #30 of 35
8/11/08 at 9:29pm
The drivers wont work with my Toshiba X200 with 8700GT.
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post #31 of 35
8/13/08 at 5:40am
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Originally Posted by mikew View Post
I just loaded them up after removign the old ones in safe mode.

They appear to work on my 1730 with 8700GT/SLI but they don't fix my inability to boot from battery power.

I can't believe I'm the only one who can't boot their 1730 without being plugged in...
It seems that a lot of M1730 have this no boot on battery problem.
Mine is one of them. But I can load any driver (this one and the latest from nvidia) in WinXP and boot on battery fine just not Vista. Dell install or clean install. With Vista I can not go higher then the 169 drive with out a problem.
I like Vista and I don’t want to go back to WinXP just to use newer drivers.
I have the 8700GT video card.
But I have seen on the Dell forums the people are have this problem with the 8800 SLI also.
I just don’t know what is the problem with Vista and not with WinXP.
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post #32 of 35
8/13/08 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by Metalman View Post
It seems that a lot of M1730 have this no boot on battery problem.
Mine is one of them. But I can load any driver (this one and the latest from nvidia) in WinXP and boot on battery fine just not Vista. Dell install or clean install. With Vista I can not go higher then the 169 drive with out a problem.
I like Vista and I don’t want to go back to WinXP just to use newer drivers.
I have the 8700GT video card.
But I have seen on the Dell forums the people are have this problem with the 8800 SLI also.
I just don’t know what is the problem with Vista and not with WinXP.
I started a thread about it on the Dell forums, several follow up "me too" posts. It seems only 8700's in Vista that I've seen so far though.

My friend just bought a new 1730 with dual 8800's, he's going to update his driver in the next day or so and get back to me. He's not the kind of person who updates his software usually so it took some convincing to get him to load a driver from nVidia's website not Dell's.

I reverted back to the Dell stock driver, this will be acceptable for me until Starcraft2 ships, at which time I will certainly need as much performance as I can get. Everquest doesn't demand too much video (in fact I have to disable SLI to make it work well wish I had a single 8800GT now..) but future games will.
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post #33 of 35
8/14/08 at 1:50am
I hope that your friend can use newer drivers with his 8800 SLI.
I am using the driver 169.09 from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com and they seem to work fine for now, but I would like to use new ones.
I just would like to know what the difference in the way Vista handles video driver over WinXP.
Like I said I can use the latest driver from nvidia in WinXP with the have disk install and boot from battery without a problem.

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Originally Posted by mikew View Post
I started a thread about it on the Dell forums, several follow up "me too" posts. It seems only 8700's in Vista that I've seen so far though.

My friend just bought a new 1730 with dual 8800's, he's going to update his driver in the next day or so and get back to me. He's not the kind of person who updates his software usually so it took some convincing to get him to load a driver from nVidia's website not Dell's.

I reverted back to the Dell stock driver, this will be acceptable for me until Starcraft2 ships, at which time I will certainly need as much performance as I can get. Everquest doesn't demand too much video (in fact I have to disable SLI to make it work well wish I had a single 8800GT now..) but future games will.
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post #34 of 35
8/15/08 at 6:05pm
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Originally Posted by felixbrenner View Post
i read this news right now, too.
any info if/how they work on a fx 3600 m?
VISTA 600/900/1400

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post #35 of 35
8/16/08 at 10:29pm
These drivers seem smoother than the other drivers out there, but STALKER still blue screens on me (only the 150 series driver fixes that, but it has serious issues in Orange Box games). I can't use standby without getting bad corruption when I resume, but that's a known issue. Otherwise, it seems to be the best 170 series driver for the m1730. Has anyone else run into blue screen problems during STALKER? Any fixes? I was thinking about installing vista to address that problem.

My specs are: m1730, 8700m GT SLI, 2GB RAM, 200GB 7.2k RPM drive, T9500 CPU (2.6GHz). I'm running a fresh install of Windows XP Pro, service pack 3.
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