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Newer Nvidia Drivers Tank Performance

cthulhuiscool

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For some reason on my notebook (8600m gt) any drivers after 266.58 (from way back in January) cause performance to tank. I'm mainly just using the drivers directly from the nvidia site but have also tried some repackaged drivers to the same effect. I didn't think much of it, just expected some conflicting software or something, but recently I reformatted and installed the newest drivers first, and they were super slow so I had to roll back. Anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this?
 
with the 8600GT you don't need to use any drivers past 197.xx.. heck you could go back even further then that. Nvidia hasn't had any updates for 8 series non g92 cards in for ever. the last real update that effected the 8 series was a cuda update in the 258.96 drivers for people to run multiple nvidia cards without SLI enabled and not needing dummy plugs to enable cuda on that card.
 
That sucks I really liked nvidia since I knew they always had better drivers oh well.
 
That doesn't mean they'll keep updating drivers for old hardware.
 
what about software to better optimize handling of engines in certain games, thats worked into drivers for all gpus, right?
 
you're in a market where obsolescence occurs every 8-12 months. You're 48 months out. You cannot expect any updates at this point. I would personally stop expecting updates after they stop manufacturing the card, but they're nice and keep them going for a bit longer.
 
Once a card maker puts out a new gen of cards, I pretty much expect no more updates for my card. Not sure why OP thought otherwise ^_^ I wonder how much more time it would require the driver teams to do that lol.
 
yeah but newer drivers should not make performance slower though. and although the 8600gt is basically irrelevant, several driver revisions have made it much much faster than what it was when released.
 
DOOMHAMMA said:
Once a card maker puts out a new gen of cards, I pretty much expect no more updates for my card. Not sure why OP thought otherwise ^_^ I wonder how much more time it would require the driver teams to do that lol.
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I don't think he was expecting new performance enhancements for his old hardware, I think he was expecting the performance of the hardware to be at its' very best since its so old and they had worked out all the bugs long ago. He wasn't expecting performance to decrease by using newer drivers, and I can't blame him. We shouldn't have to guess which driver version is going to deliver the best performance for our card. If the 197.xx drivers were the last drivers that delivered any performance updates for an 8600M GT, then you'd expect the current drivers to deliver that same exact performance level.

cthulhuiscool said:
For some reason on my notebook (8600m gt) any drivers after 266.58 (from way back in January) cause performance to tank. I'm mainly just using the drivers directly from the nvidia site but have also tried some repackaged drivers to the same effect. I didn't think much of it, just expected some conflicting software or something, but recently I reformatted and installed the newest drivers first, and they were super slow so I had to roll back. Anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this?
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Just curious, which games in particular did you notice a drop in performance? Also, where did you come across the repackaged drivers?
 
Jon55 said:
Just curious, which games in particular did you notice a drop in performance? Also, where did you come across the repackaged drivers?
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I got the drivers repackaged at http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ with modded infs, and literally every game I have tried with newer drivers have horrid performance. Some examples are source engine games, oblivion, bad company 2, STALKER, GTA San Andreas (yes even stuff that old). And yea, it's exactly as you said, I'd like the new features and interface of new drivers such as overscan fix, but since performance is killed by it I dunno if this is possible for me.
 
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