Nvidia GeForce driver update: 296.16

[X-ROG]

Nvidia has fixed the bug that prevented our QC team from officiating their drivers on our G and VX series laptops. Our product page download links will be updated soon with Forceware 296.16 soon 🙂

As usual we recommend not downloading from 3rd party driver sites as you'll never know if it has hidden malware.

Download link:

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Drivers/VGA/nVidia/VGA_nVidia_Win7_64_Z817129616.zip

[Symho]

I have notice that the drivers 296.16 have Nvidia update, so if this application notify the 301.42 version we must update or not?

[Zygomorphic]

I would say update in either case, since the 301 drives contain some nice new features. I run them on my G53SX, and they run fine. While I have no use for the FXAA, I run the most recent drivers to get all performance tweaks and bug-fixes (that most of all).

[gilbert]

I updated tp the new 301,42 and my WEI went down to 7.1 don't know why , after i rolled back to 296,16 it went back up to 7.2 im guessing that in my case 296,16 gives me a better performance boost then the 301.42.....maybe they lower the performance on the 301,42 because with the 301,24 i was getting the 7.2 score .

[Zygomorphic]

gilbert wrote:
I updated tp the new 301,42 and my WEI went down to 7.1 don't know why , after i rolled back to 296,16 it went back up to 7.2 im guessing that in my case 296,16 gives me a better performance boost then the 301.42.....maybe they lower the performance on the 301,42 because with the 301,24 i was getting the 7.2 score .

Mine was at 7.1 under the 301.24 beta drivers and still is under the 301.42, so I think it has something to do with Windows. Actually, under Windows 8, I got a 6.9, but that was running non-Windows 8 drivers, so I can't speak with total certainty. Then again, under Windows 8, I got an 8.9 on the RAM :). Don't worry about it, especially since the WEI for gaming graphics is totally bogus. If the games you play run fine, then who cares what Microsoft thinks about your computer. If they don't try updating the drivers, since NVIDIA optimizes for games, not the Windows Experience Index. Some of their driver releases purportedly boosted gaming performance by 30-50% in some games...

[gilbert]

Zygomorphic wrote:
Mine was at 7.1 under the 301.24 beta drivers and still is under the 301.42, so I think it has something to do with Windows. Actually, under Windows 8, I got a 6.9, but that was running non-Windows 8 drivers, so I can't speak with total certainty. Then again, under Windows 8, I got an 8.9 on the RAM :). Don't worry about it, especially since the WEI for gaming graphics is totally bogus. If the games you play run fine, then who cares what Microsoft thinks about your computer. If they don't try updating the drivers, since NVIDIA optimizes for games, not the Windows Experience Index. Some of their driver releases purportedly boosted gaming performance by 30-50% in some games...

it would b nice to know what driver gives you better overall performance , i really think that the 296,16 is it.

[Zygomorphic]

I actually got 7.1 under all the different drivers that I have tested, to be honest. Besides which, if you look up GTX560M equipped notebooks on notebookcheck.net, then you will find that the range in 560M cards from various manufacturers varies by more than 0.1 points on the WEI scale. Just try all the various versions with the games that you play, and determine which one runs them the fastest with the most stability. The other thing I forgot to say earlier is that Microsoft occasionally changes the scale slightly, so individual cards can change in performance. So much for their promise to keep WEI consistent across versions. What they are trying to do is make the highest end hardware available score a perfect score, and everything else drops down from there.

[GottiBoi55]

gilbert wrote:
I updated tp the new 301,42 and my WEI went down to 7.1 don't know why , after i rolled back to 296,16 it went back up to 7.2 im guessing that in my case 296,16 gives me a better performance boost then the 301.42.....maybe they lower the performance on the 301,42 because with the 301,24 i was getting the 7.2 score .

I had the same issue, you need to reset 3D setting, then restart your laptop and run WEI again.
soon as your desktop is fully loaded run the WEI.
I get 7.2 for both desktop, and gaming.

[Slayerking]

The latest beta drivers (304.79) seem to have got rid of the lines for me.

[cjfowler]

Found a new nVidia driver release this month for the 560m.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-306.97-whql-driver.html

[Zygomorphic]

Good find! +1 🙂