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Are these drivers the same?
Quick question regarding drivers, on my DXDIAG and MSINFO it's saying my driver is dated
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 8/6/2009 17:16:00, 9492480 bytes
The 'newest' driver on Dell's support website is this one
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R279498&SystemID=Alw_lp_M17x&servicetag=78HT4K1&os=W764&osl=en&deviceid=21871&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=6&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=412648
Release Date:8/25/2010Version:257.38, A03File Size:163 MB
The 'newest' driver on Nvidia's site is this one
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-whql-driver.html
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258.96 WHQL |
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2010.07.19 |
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Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit |
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English (U.S.) |
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143 MB |
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| I'm wondering if my driver is up to date - and if not which one I should upgrade to. I play a lot of games and when trying to run alot of newer games in SLI my GPUs get extremely hot since I think the driver is out of date and there are no SLI profiles for it! Thanks in advance. |
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kirkd
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September 25th, 2010 19:00
The driver from Nvidia is the newer. Nvidia is now updating about every 6 weeks, whereas Dell rarely updates any driver. I am using the 258.96.
starrywisdom
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September 25th, 2010 20:00
Thanks for the response, I'm curious as to if my driver that is installed is the same as the one that's avaliable on the Dell website - I know it's out of date by Nvidia's standards. The date on my DXDIAG says that it's from 2009, and the one on Dell's website says a date of 2010(you can see my driver details in my original statement).
kirkd
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September 25th, 2010 21:00
The 257.38 is several months older than the 258.96. I don't see the 257.38 on the Nvidia site, so it probably written just for Dell. There is probably no reason to upgrade now, but it shouldn't hurt anything. If you do upgrade, check to see if you lose any functionality as compared to the Dell version. I have upgraded about ten times, with absolutely no problems.
starrywisdom
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September 26th, 2010 06:00
My issue with the older profiles is really just the lack of SLI profiles - I'm having issues with more of my recent games due to how outdated the SLI profiles are(Civilization 5, Starcraft II, Final Fantasy XIV) all run fairly sub-par since only one GPU is being used! Thanks for the response though.