M15x - NVIDIA 295.51 Drivers Released - Discussion

[katalin_2003]

Source: (64-bit) NVIDIA DRIVERS 295.51 BETA

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS : This is the first beta release from the R295 family of drivers. For more information, read the 295.51 driver article on GeForce.com.

This driver supports the following NVIDIA notebook GPUs (please refer to the Products Supported tab for exceptions):
ION notebook GPUs.
GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M, 200M, 300M, 400M, and 500M-series notebook GPUs. Quadro 5010M, 5000M, 4000M 3000M, 2000M and 1000M notebook GPUs.
Quadro NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those thatsupport DirectX10 or higher).
Quadro FX-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).

New in 295.51

NVIDIA SLI

Adds or updates SLI profiles for:

7554 Kingdoms of Amalur:Reckoning
Mass Effect 3
Oil Rush
Red Faction:Armageddon

3D Vision

Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3Dmonitors Adds or updates 3DVision profiles for:

The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good
Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair
Black Prophecy – rated Not Recommended
Chaos Online – rated Fair
Da Vinci Online – rated Fair
DotA 2 – rating upgraded to Fair
Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale – rated Fair
FerrariProject– rated Not Recommended
The First Templar – rated Fair
Fractal – rated Excellent
FreeStyle 2 – rated Good
The HauntedHalls Reach – rated Excellent
King Arthur II – rated Not Recommended
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – rated Fair
Kong Fu Ying Xiong – rated Fair
Love Beat – rated Good
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – rated Good
Microsoft Flight – rated Fair Perpetuum – rated Fair
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – rated Fair
Prototype 2 – rated Fair
Q.U.B.E. – rated Excellent
Quan Qiu Shi Ming – rated Excellent
rFactor 2 (mod mode) – rated Good
Saints Row:The Third – Rated Not Recommended
Shadow Company: Leftfor Dead – rated Not Recommended
Special Force – Rated Good
Tera – rated Good
Top Gun: HardLock – rated Not Recommended
Tropico 4 – rated Good
Worms Blast – rated Good

NVIDIA PhysX

Updates PhysX System Software to 9.11.1111

HD Audio

Updates HD Audio to version 1.3.12.0

Key Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixes instances of driver timeouts while simultaneously watching multiple videos. Adds edit/delete option for custom resolutions.

Other Details

Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing:CUDAC, CUDAC++, CUDAFortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP. Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.

Please see this post for installation steps in case you get this message after downloading the correct driver version for your graphic card(s):

NVIDIA Installer cannot continue
This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware.

[KurtH]

Well I installed these yesterday and noticed a dorp in FPS by 14-16 in Starcraft 2. My WEI also dropped to 2.8 due to video performance. If I wasnt using government internet I would post screen shots. But all I can say is I experianced a large performance drop after installing these drivers.

[landsome]

on which of your 3 aw's have you experienced the drop?

subjectively speaking, the drivers seem ok on my m15x/460m.

[KurtH]

My M15x they seemed fine for me too but then I tested the WEI and it scored crap. I know the WEI score means nothing but using fraps on Starcraft 2 my frames dropped like crazy.