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Dell just lost a customer...
Enough is enough. I am selling my XPS 1710 (Geforce 7950/512 Meg, 2 Gig of Ram) in the next week and will never ever buy Dell stuff . Why ??? I think every owner of dell laptop knows why. No updated drivers. When you buy a 3000 $ laptop describe as a gaming laptop you expect to be able to run it at is max and to do that you need UPDATED DRIVERS. For the last 4 months nvidia has release 2 new set of drivers and Dell only have a 4 months out of date drivers on their web site (13/04/2007). If you check on nvidia website it shows clearly that nvidia release drivers to dell so dell can tweak them to match their specification (by that i mean underclock the card). It always make me laugh when I see dell new marketing campain : you spoke we listen. So if you are listening give me new drivers for Win XP.
- You need to learn how to search these forums for the answers. Contrary to your rant, Dell has indeed released an updated driver for the GO 7950 GTX. If you would go to Dell's Driver & Download section for the M1710 and look in the Rapid Driver Release section, you will see a link to a Performance Driver. This driver is a version of 101.19 for the 7900 GTX, and has been reported by several members to work good. 3DMark06 results are in the 5500 region. Others have used modified Desktop Vista drivers, some with good results. I am using a WHQL version of the 101.19 driver for the GO 7900 GS, with excellent results. No problems with anything; no screen flicker and no stuttering during gaming.Dimension 9100, Dual-Boot Win XP / Vista Home Premium, 3.0 GHz P4, 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM, 160 GB SATA II Samsung (XP), 300 GB SATA II Seagate (Vista), 250 GB SimpleTech USB (WD Drive), Nvidia Go 6800 (425/825 MHz), Dell 1901 UltraSharp FP
Inspiron E1705, Win Vista Premium, T7200 Core 2 Duo (4MB, 2.0 GHz 667MHz), 2 GB DDR2 677 MHz RAM, 2 GB Transcend 150X SD ReadyBoost, 120 GB Samsung HD, Nvidia Go 7900 GS - 101.19 WHQL Driver, 17” Sharp UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-Screen WUXGA - The people truly responsible for your hardware drivers isn't Dell. Dell's job is to release something that is stable and performs well with the systems they have bult. As far as I am concerned (and as another poster mentioned already), Dell has released some drivers, which you would have found if you searched for it. Their drivers in their download section for the M1710 all perform well under XP and Vista alike.nVidia may have released a huge amount of drivers but after 9 months of monitoring nVidia, nearly all their drivers are targeted for the desktop market. nVidia's priority now is with the 8-series cards as well as tweaking SLi.In addition, you can look at other competitors such as Rock Direct, Alienware (now owned by Dell), Sager and VoodooPC where all these companies are amongst the top for gaming laptops and pretty much all of them don't have up-to-date drivers.There is nothing to stop you from downloading the latest Intel chipset drivers from Intel, the latest Bluetooth drivers from Broadcom, latest wireless drivers from Intel again, latest touchpad drivers from Synaptics... and the list goes on. The only difference with the latest drivers are their stability and you are the one who has to take the risk. Dell wouldn't take the risk with releasing unstable drivers to the public.And as a side note regarding laptopvideo2go drivers, I'd advise avoiding them as most of the drivers are unstable on the 7950GTX (especially the desktop converted drivers which will cause screen corruption when running on battery). The latest 101.19 driver by Dell is best (although it still lack some options in the nVidia CP with some options greyed out).
Message Edited by tzang on 08-08-2007 10:36 PM
Message Edited by tzang on 08-08-2007 10:37 PM mthompson18593
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Posted August 10th, 2007 20:00
I can't find anything called "Rapid Driver Release" on the M1710 Drivers page? Any help? Thanks.mthompson18593
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Posted August 10th, 2007 20:00
Good posting. I laugh reading so many of these posts where people are angry at Dell for things that Dell can't control. By the way, I use the latest from laptopvideo2go on my m1710 with 7900 GTX and it works much better than with the latest Dell drivers.- It's on this page:Dimension 9100, Dual-Boot Win XP / Vista Home Premium, 3.0 GHz P4, 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM, 160 GB SATA II Samsung (XP), 300 GB SATA II Seagate (Vista), 250 GB SimpleTech USB (WD Drive), Nvidia Go 6800 (425/825 MHz), Dell 1901 UltraSharp FP
Inspiron E1705, Win Vista Premium, T7200 Core 2 Duo (4MB, 2.0 GHz 667MHz), 2 GB DDR2 677 MHz RAM, 2 GB Transcend 150X SD ReadyBoost, 120 GB Samsung HD, Nvidia Go 7900 GS - 101.19 Driver, 17” Sharp UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-Screen WUXGA
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Posted July 30th, 2007 14:00