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Gwynbleidd
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March 21st, 2011 20:00
9800M GT drivers
Hi there
A few weeks ago a video card in my XPS M1730 had gone (it was 8800M GTX SLI) and had been replaced. Now device manager shows that this is 9800M GT SLI video card. And now is my stupid question to laptop users with that card: what version of drivers you use for it? For my previous card I used drivers from Dell website, but there are relatively old, so I thought I could install some newer, but I don't know which one are good (I did a little search in Internet and I found only a recommendation for 186.81 version, and Nvidia website suggests me 266.58, but I heard that this drivers are not very good).
Thanks for any help
dgkpcon
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Posted March 22nd, 2011 07:00
Driver v. 186.21 is from a windows update for this series GPU's,it popped up on me as an update,i clicked to hide it.I also tried using 266.58 for a few days but lost quite a few nvidia control panel options with the install,and went back to the dell driver.You can always use a MOD driver from here http://www.hardwareheaven.com/nvmodtool.php .This is the nvidia version of mobility modder,download the DESKTOP version driver you want to use,run the MOD to modify the driver.I'm running the desktop 8800 GTX driver and so far it's stable,no glitches and i did not lose any control panel features.Try out the desktop 9800 GT and see how it works,you can always revert back to the driver yoou are using.