Nvidia Driver 257.15 / 257.21 on AW... Discuss Here

[arsenal243]

I didn't have Physx installed with old driver (197 driver doesn't include physx) and I did everything properly.
Perhaps it only happens with M17x machines ....

[Mickbt26]

Its weird, Mine appears to be completely fine now with Powermizer enabled. Haven't had a single issue in 2 days of it being enabled.

[Blue_Wolf]

Woah! dodgy fan speeds at random times and a grey screen flicker that forced a hard reboot to report here too (all I was doing was browsing forums as well)

Kinda glad to hear it's the driver and not my display on its way out. Think I will be going back to 197.31 for a while...


Edit: My dodgy fan speeds were with Hybrid and Integrated graphics switched OFF.


I admit I just installed these straight over the last drivers, but in the past this worked best for me.

[tuenkamen]

never do that with these they apparently don't like over writing the previous driver on your machine which i found out with only physx and nst still on it so i would uninstall all nvidia software before drivers and it should install fine.

[arsenal243]

I believe the freezes issue only happens with M17x and Windows 7. Look like NVidia is screwing up again. Would it be fixed for WHQL release? Maybe not.....

[Psychotic deformity]

reverting back to 197.44, too many stuttering ingame its driving me insane after a week

[Mickbt26]

reverting back to 197.44, too many stuttering ingame its driving me insane after a week

Your spot on with that!
Ive had to revert back to 197.16 due to the little stutter issues (not related to the cmod issue) and what seems to be slow texture loading in certain games.

All is back to being ok for now

[Psychotic deformity]

anybody tried these 257.29 yet?

Keep your eyes peeled for 257.29 driver soon - LaptopVideo2Go Forums

[Alek123]

I didn't try 257.29. The 257.15 driver is indeed a very good improvement over DPC latency , but for me it is extremely unstable , with random system/video fails and freezes , and screen flickering during logon. Going back to dell 186.64 official drivers , even if they have huge DPC latency , they are imo the most stable drivers.

edit : Changed my mind. 197.16 are the most stable drivers , not 186.64.

[tyranus7]

Ok, i am back to the 197 drivers. The 257 drivers were great speacially becauses you can disable SLI and then set one card to be a dedicated physx card, but these drivers were unstable as hell.. black screen, fickering.. i think is all related to flash or IE8, becauses never had a problem during gaming, only during web browsing... but i liked the drivers becauses the physx stuff