Nvidia releases official notebook drivers for the first time ever!!! (Windows)

[Wolfpup]

Nvidia.com! They've got notebook drivers up officially, that support a whole ton of notebooks...INCLUDING APPLE'S!

Now I was able to use their desktop drivers fine on last gen hardware, but still.

Go grab 'em, and let us know how they work!

Unfortunately Sony's stuff isn't supported, for some reason. Don't know whose fault that is :-/

 

[Tastannin]

Whats the difference using the Nvidia drivers and the Apple BootCamp drivers?

 

[Wolfpup]

Whats the difference using the Nvidia drivers and the Apple BootCamp drivers?

They're up to date. Apple's drivers are outdated. They probably work okay for a lot of things now, but will get worse and worse and worse and make the system near worthless for a lot of things.

This is *HUGE* news. One of the biggest things to happen to computers this year. Maybe the biggest really. I just hope it continues on.

Weirdly, Sony and Leveno are the only companies not involved in it. I mean it's awesome even Apple is, and Windows isn't even their gig!

 

[winninganthem]

That's pretty cool, no need to use hacks and workarounds to get up-to-date drivers on my system anymore.

Thanks .

 

[TheCakeIsALie]

Another good news is that nVidia says that Hybrid SLI support is coming in an update some time later, which means hopefully that we'll be able to switch from 9600M GT to 9400M card on the new unibody MBPs.

 

[Wolfpup]

Let me know how well they work and what hardware you've got! 'Cause I'm close to buying a computer, and was leaning towards a Sony AW...but then these get released, and Sony is one of only two companies not supported!

 

[ProFont]

Thanks for posting this. I've been running on hacked drivers, so it's great to see properly supported ones.

 

[Keleko]

I noticed the install file for XP 32 bit says "beta" in the name. So does that make the driver beta or just the install itself?

 

[alphaod]

I've been using beta drivers from NVIDIA for a long time.

 

[kamin99]

They're up to date. Apple's drivers are outdated. They probably work okay for a lot of things now, but will get worse and worse and worse and make the system near worthless for a lot of things.

This is *HUGE* news. One of the biggest things to happen to computers this year. Maybe the biggest really. I just hope it continues on.

Weirdly, Sony and Leveno are the only companies not involved in it. I mean it's awesome even Apple is, and Windows isn't even their gig!

are these drivers for windows if used on Apple machine or are they for OSx as well
Many thanks

 

[tsvb]

Sounds good. I'm going to try these later.

 

[Tex-Twil]

Yes those are beta drivers

This is *HUGE* news

I've heard bigger news ...

Before you could get drivers for notebooks from here. I don't really see why such an excitement.

 

[tri3limited]

I agree with Tex-Twil... There has been far far bigger news than this.

I'd say the Internet Explorer vulnerability has to be up there, this is great for some but tbh most the time a driver update isn't going to make that much difference to the system. The companies invest far more time and money into new products than adding a slight performance change to a current driver.

 

[kolax]

So these are beta drivers then? Not officially released yet?

 

[ProFont]

Before you could get drivers for notebooks from here. I don't really see why such an excitement.

These drivers are actually tested and supported by someone other than some random guy from the internet. I used laptopvideo2go as well, but that can only be a good thing.

 

[Wolfpup]

I agree with Tex-Twil... There has been far far bigger news than this.

I'd say the Internet Explorer vulnerability has to be up there, this is great for some but tbh most the time a driver update isn't going to make that much difference to the system. The companies invest far more time and money into new products than adding a slight performance change to a current driver.

Actually sometimes performance increases can be massive, even more than doubling performance. But the main issue is compatibility. It's incredibly lame if you spend thousands on hardware that becomes a door stop only because of a lack of drivers.

And a software vulnerability? Web browsers have had trillions of problems fixed every year since there were web browsers. That's not even beginning to approach the level of a GPU company finally being able to offer driver support for mobile GPUs. That changes so much for notebooks.

 

[mosx]

Nvidia.com! They've got notebook drivers up officially, that support a whole ton of notebooks...INCLUDING APPLE'S!

Now I was able to use their desktop drivers fine on last gen hardware, but still.

Go grab 'em, and let us know how they work!

Unfortunately Sony's stuff isn't supported, for some reason. Don't know whose fault that is :-/

I remember you posted on another forum stating that you manually installed the drivers, bypassing the nvidia installer. Nvidia uses an installer for a reason and you're very lucky you didn't cause yourself any massive problems.

 

[kolax]

I remember you posted on another forum stating that you manually installed the drivers, bypassing the nvidia installer. Nvidia uses an installer for a reason and you're very lucky you didn't cause yourself any massive problems.

You've never installed graphics drivers manually in Windows?

I'd stay away from Guru3D!

 

[mosx]

You've never installed graphics drivers manually in Windows?

I'd stay away from Guru3D!

I've been building PCs longer than most here have owned Macs

Manually installing nvidia drivers is never a good idea. You miss out on hardware specific tweaks and features, as well as additional software like nvidia's control panel.

Plus you might not get proper power management.

 

[Wolfpup]

I remember you posted on another forum stating that you manually installed the drivers, bypassing the nvidia installer. Nvidia uses an installer for a reason and you're very lucky you didn't cause yourself any massive problems.

I've been building PCs longer than most here have owned Macs

Manually installing nvidia drivers is never a good idea. You miss out on hardware specific tweaks and features, as well as additional software like nvidia's control panel.

Plus you might not get proper power management.

You don't lose Nvidia's control panel, that gets installed too. Why is it a bad idea? IMO it's a better idea that using 3rd party software of unknown function or quality to do the same thing.

EDIT: I should say, if you know something about it, I'd like to know because this whole area is weird...but it seems to me manually installing the desktop drivers is probably the way to go prior to these new official drivers.

 

[kolax]

Talk about a huge ego

Most of the best "tweaked" drivers out there in the community require a manual install.

 

[Eidorian]

I read about this today. It's nice not to have to point people to the horrors of manually installing drivers anymore.

 

[desantii]

I updated the drivers seamlessly in my early 08 MBP, in Vista 64 went from driver version 167 to 179

thanks

08 Peryn MBP 17" 6gb ram 320gb HD

 

[Wolfpup]

Glad to hear it worked!

I'm hoping these work okay with Blu Ray too. I'm kind of leaning towards getting a Macbook Pro again

 

[macrem]

please post in the windows area. Here its spam.