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

[kaltoreth]

fuzon1337 wrote:
That 301.24 driver isn't that a beta version?
I know that our notebooks is suffering from CPU throtling so that can by why you have low fps in RIFT... there is a workaround to fix it in this forum, but @ColonelS have mentioned that there will be a new BIOS released soon, that fixes this issue.... but haven't seen it yet 😞

hm .. isnt that just for the g73 series ? Im runing the intel boost monitor thingy, and it flies up too 2.8ghz when i play, so i dont think its throttleed in anyway. I have the 203 bios on my g74sx.

[fuzon1337]

kaltoreth wrote:
hm .. isnt that just for the g73 series ? Im runing the intel boost monitor thingy, and it flies up too 2.8ghz when i play, so i dont think its throttleed in anyway. I have the 203 bios on my g74sx.

This is for all Sandy Bridge processors so unfortunately this is for the G74 too =/
Take a look at this thread ATTENTION: G73/53SW Owners - CPU Throttling to 798mhz and how to fix it

[kaltoreth]

fuzon1337 wrote:
This is for all Sandy Bridge processors so unfortunately this is for the G74 too =/
Take a look at this thread ATTENTION: G73/53SW Owners - CPU Throttling to 798mhz and how to fix it

Increadible! 😃 THank you for adressing it!

But why do CPUID and Intel Turbo boost Monitor both say my cpu is running at 2.8ghz ?
I am NOT doubting what you say, its just tht everything i use to monitor my system, says otherwise.

Im as confused as an eskimo in the desert.

[Zygomorphic]

800 MHz is the idle frequency of the SandyBridge CPUs. If the monitor flies up to 2.8 GHz (you have a 2630QM I suppose), then the turbo boost is kicking in, and nothing is wrong. To save on power and reduce heat, Intel allows the processor to under-clock itself when idle. In fact, this feature, known as SpeedStep, was introduced in the days of the Pentium III (A LONG time ago:cool:).

[fostert]

Zygomorphic wrote:
In fact, this feature, known as SpeedStep, was introduced in the days of the Pentium III (A LONG time ago:cool:).

2630QM should clock all the way to 2.9 GHz if you've got a recent version of ACPI Thermal management installed: at least, switching linux kernels to one with a recent version of acpi did the trick for me (2.92GHz max now for one thread @100% load).

Ah yes, the PIII...1998 doesn't seem too long ago! In fact my PIII-600 machine is still 100%...plays HALO quite well too!

[fuzon1337]

kaltoreth wrote:
Increadible! 😃 THank you for adressing it!

But why do CPUID and Intel Turbo boost Monitor both say my cpu is running at 2.8ghz ?
I am NOT doubting what you say, its just tht everything i use to monitor my system, says otherwise.

Im as confused as an eskimo in the desert.

I'm not sure either =/

as @dkillone says in his post: Problem is when running Prime95 the CPU stays turbo boosted at 2.3 to 2.6ghz. However, once Furmark is started at the same time, the CPU drops instantly to 798mhz....

Perhaps you could check it out yourself and see if the same thing happends to you ?

[Zygomorphic]

2.6 GHz is the upper cap for TurboMode on the 2630QM on 2x2 cores. I say 2x2 because of hyper-threading. Due to variations, it fluctuates between about 2.3 and 2.6 GHz. The Furmark dropping it to 798 MHz is really confusing. Is there potentially a bug with Furmark? I have written my own high-stress floating point tests, and running them produces the speed results that @fuzon1337 quotes.

[soh299]

Hey guys, I have the G73SW-A1 notebook. With 267.54 nvidia version. I am not having any problem with the notebook except when playing battlefield 3, it will freeze after playing around for 5-10minutes. I cant play Need for speed The RUN as well, due to the ancient driver version.

Should I update to the latest 296.16 version? I am reluctant to update it due to many complaint about the 296.10 causing problem to the notebook. Since as mention earlier, the 296.16 version is made specifically for G series notebook and approved by asus, is it available to be downloaded in asus official website?

In short, is it recommended to download the 296.16 for the G73SW-A1?

[PILGRIM]

soh299 wrote:
Hey guys, I have the G73SW-A1 notebook. With 267.54 nvidia version. I am not having any problem with the notebook except when playing battlefield 3, it will freeze after playing around for 5-10minutes. I cant play Need for speed The RUN as well, due to the ancient driver version.

Should I update to the latest 296.16 version? I am reluctant to update it due to many complaint about the 296.10 causing problem to the notebook. Since as mention earlier, the 296.16 version is made specifically for G series notebook and approved by asus, is it available to be downloaded in asus official website?

In short, is it recommended to download the 296.16 for the G73SW-A1?

It should work just fine considering this 296.16 version is ASUS certified
and is supposed to be for the G-series (460M/560M).

Perchance it won't work for your laptop, just re-install the previous driver.

[fuzon1337]

soh299 wrote:
Hey guys, I have the G73SW-A1 notebook. With 267.54 nvidia version. I am not having any problem with the notebook except when playing battlefield 3, it will freeze after playing around for 5-10minutes. I cant play Need for speed The RUN as well, due to the ancient driver version.

Should I update to the latest 296.16 version? I am reluctant to update it due to many complaint about the 296.10 causing problem to the notebook. Since as mention earlier, the 296.16 version is made specifically for G series notebook and approved by asus, is it available to be downloaded in asus official website?

In short, is it recommended to download the 296.16 for the G73SW-A1?

If you still have issues when you play games, then you could try out the new certified and optimized driver for GTX 460/560M by Asus.
So if you choose to install it, then choose advanced and check for "clean install", then install. 🙂

EDIT: If you should get any issues with the new driver, then you can always install an earlier version of the graphic driver to see if the problem still occurs.

The driver is not available at asus support, but @MarshallR have posted the installation file in his first post here:

MarshallR@ASUS wrote:

Download link:

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

And as @Pilgrim says in his post:

PILGRIM wrote:
One question, though. Why isn't there any PhysX System software included in it?..
I had to re-install the 296.10 PhysX System just to have it.

You'll need to download the PhysX driver, nVidia support