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Hi all, I have recently placed an order for the Dell XPS M1330 notebook. It is going to ship with Windows Vista Home Premium and the NVIDIA® GeForce?
8400M GS 128 MB video card. I will have to remove Vista and install Windows XP Professional with SP2 on the laptop because I will be using it for academic purposes, and my university has complete support only for the latter. I was looking for a 32 bit Windows XP driver for my video card.
The closest I can find is the NVIDIA drivers for the NVIDIA® GeForce? 8400 GS (without the M) [Link: ].
So my queries are: 1.) Is that driver sufficient as a substitute (I am willing to take an acceptable performance hit)? 2.) If there is a mod available here, could you please guide me on how to download and install it (I am a complete novice to rigging and modding:) ). Thanks for your help in advance. That is a desktop driver, it has to be modified to properly function on your laptop card(s). Read this topic. Pak0 Pak Pak1 Pak here. Now you can find the 162.18 driver here on these forums and extract the driver, replace the INF with our modified one, and then install the driver. (read the FAQ section pinned topics) Repeat as necessary till you find a nice working/fast/good quality driver.
If that or another driver works well, please tell us about it here. As this topic gets some more posts somebody with the same graphics card is bound to test some drivers and post feedback as well. You should know that the latest drivers are not always the best to use, although with an 8 series card you will probably be exclusively using 1xx.xx drivers or higher. That is just the driver you mentioned, if you found it on nvidia's driver release site that is usually an indication of a good driver. You shouldn't encounter any serious issues, your just replacing the INF that contains instructions on how to install the driver for your card, your not modding the driver.
Now things like the xtreme G drivers, if you were to get those, the actual driver files are usually modified. You might want to check out this program. There might be a special new version somewhere else for your notebook though, you might want to search for fangui and your notebook model. You could also search for nvtweak, and tvtool, those are also good programs to have that you might want to use. As for other drivers from nvidia, the only think you could install in addition to that with be 3D stereo drivers.
(for 3D gaming) To use those you have to find the driver (on nvidia's site) and it HAS to match the driver you have installed. (if not expect problems or refusing to install/run) Nvidia does not update the stereo drivers very often, so most likely you will have to downgrade if you want to try those, but you might want to get a hold of some 3D glasses first.
Some don't work on standard lcd panels, so do some research before you buy anything expensive. I will probably go for dual homemade polarized High Definition projectors in a few years or so for a proper 3D setup. (powered by 2 or more high end cards Last you should remember we will not hold your hand here, you need to test drivers and things on your own, read FAQs before asking too many questions. This reminds me, I should do a 3D stereo FAQ topic someday, for all 5 of the members here that use stereo.:). I understand that modding the INF simply changes the instructions to make the video card compatible with the OS and the laptop device [Am I correct?]. Once I'm done with the installation and modding of the driver, can I get rid of the extracted folder? About holding hands, I really am paranoid about doing stuff to the hardware of the notebook, because I depend on it critically for all academic purposes.
So I just want to get things absolutely straight before venturing out and doing anything. Also, I'm heavily constrained for time:). Appreciate your help once again. Before installing this driver and making changes to the INF, should I uninstall the existing utilities from NVIDIA? (like nTune, I've heard.).