M11xR2/R3 - NVidia Optimus Issues/Whitelisting Problems

[luffytubby]

thanks for everything erawneila:=) It's wonderful to have someone talk to us! Thanks a ton!

[erawneila]

I have C&C 3, 4, Red alert 3, Anno 1404, venice addon. all of which when I add the .exe in nvidia control panel, there is no ok or apply button to confirm. Exit and come back to control panel, the newly added .exe disappears.

What's strange is only steam.exe is listed. First impression I had was probably I had to add the .exe via some ini file or registry.

Would Brian have a short 5-6 steps on how to add .exe. At least I can know if I had added wrongly or missing a step.

Yeah, this is confusing stuff. I'm guessing you aren't adding the correct .exe file. You have to be certain that you are adding the .exe that runs thatgame itself, not the shortcut on the desktop, not steam, etc. I'll see if I can put together some basic instructions. Hopefully nVidia will update the whitelist soon.

I'll try to do this tomorrow, but it might push out to Monday as I've been really busy.

Thanks...

[Arklight]

Yeah, this is confusing stuff. I'm guessing you aren't adding the correct .exe file. You have to be certain that you are adding the .exe that runs thatgame itself, not the shortcut on the desktop, not steam, etc. I'll see if I can put together some basic instructions. Hopefully nVidia will update the whitelist soon.

I'll try to do this tomorrow, but it might push out to Monday as I've been really busy.

Thanks...

No do this first,... PLEASE?? just tell nvidia to please fix the driver for optimus because that's the one messing up the games that were playing, and the crashing and all that... I added C&C 3 and it stayed there,, dunno what i did.

[kg21vc15]

not sure if its been posted in here or not, but what's the name of the driver you need to uninstall if you were to install the verde 257.21?

[n.czar]

I don't remember the exact name, but it is nVidia graphics driver or something similar.

[Thran8]

question how do u mod the .inf. when i dl it, its just a .txt and i cant just overright it

sry for the newb question

[n.czar]

Unpack the Verde .exe with winrar (or similar), delete the original, download the nvdm.inf file from the beginning of this post, copy it to the display folder inside the unpacked drivers folder, run the setup.exe and that should do it

[ferstaberinde]

!erawneila, uoy knaht

If you have Hinge problems, call support and get it taken care of. It will be covered under warranty.

Looks like I'm okay on this front for now, but thank you for the reminder about the warranty policy.

For those having problems adding games, can you please post the game name and specific problem encountered? If you are using the non Dell driver, all bets are off. We are in the process of testing a much newer version of the video driver (than the currently posted Dell version). I hope to have an ETA for release soon.

As per my email (posted earlier), I am using only the drivers that shipped with the unit. I have not dared install any new drivers.

The game I am trying to run is: Armed Assault 2 (ArmA II) via Steam; please let me know if you want me to provide more detail (above what's written in my email that was posted earlier).

Thanks for participating in the discussion - assuming you're a Dell employee, you're doing them proud by engaging with us here. Fingers crossed on a swift ETA for that fixed driver ...

[Thran8]

Its not working, and its giving me an error code.

Says its not compatible with my current hardware, and the setup will not exit

[n.czar]

you probably have the original unpacked files somewhere, check your c:/ drive for NVIDIA, if there is a file delete it, have you deleted your current drivers yet? Did you restart the computer? If and when you restart, did you make sure to kill windows attempt to reinstall drivers?