Windows 8 Drivers

Other manufacturers already put up Windows 8 drivers, so it's perfectly fair to ask the same from Dell. At least updated Synaptics touchpad drivers which allow proper interaction with Windows 8.

I wouldn't use nVidia as an example. Their latest driver only supports the release preview, not the RTM:

"This is a WHQL-certified GeForce driver to be used only with the Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview."

You could however go to http://laptopvideo2go.com/ to find drivers with tweaked INF files to support mobile cards.

+MSGALE - nVidia has released drivers, but for some insane reason the Dell Hardware won't use them - very frustrating

Lenovo here I come

Lenovo has released some drivers and Bios updates already

support.lenovo.com/.../detail.page

I have installed Windows 8 RTM and I can see that all the default drivers are dated 2006 :/ Even the USB driver is wrong. I wish Dell released updates for Dell Xps Lx502x so that we can use Windows 8 with optimum performance.

DELL release driver updates for Windows 8?  That's a nice dream.  If I would've waited for DELL to update the drivers for Windows 7 64-bit for my old Inspiron 1520, never would have had the system functioning properly.  You just have to go out and find it yourself, based on my experience with my DELL model anyways.

There should be no question of DELL not having the proper updated drivers because it's an unofficial OS, Windows 8 Enterprise RTM is the official OS as been stated above.  Even when Windows 8 rolls out to the retail consumers, for many DELL models that are compatible with a Windows 8 upgrade, DELL will probably not bother updating the drivers.

Currently running Windows 8 Enterprise RTM 32-bit on an Inspiron 1520

Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5Ghz

2GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce 8600m GT

Samsung SSD SATA3 Hard Drive

Runs perfectly smooth, fortunately everything's compatible with the native drivers from Microsoft.  Will eventually upgrade the driver for Wifi, graphics card, and Intel Rapid Storage Manager (unable to upgrade this driver from Intel for the time being) later to test if there's improvements, with no help from DELL.

Hello,

Just some heads up: Most of the Win7 drivers work for now on Windows 8. If not, you should try to set the Compatibility to Windows 7 and they will have a higher chance of running the setup + complete installation.

For example, the Bluetooth drivers couldn't be installed because WINDOWS itself blocked the Broadcom setup. However, I got inside the folder for my architecture (x64), and set the compatibility on the setup file. Voilla. Drivers + bluetooth apps installed, and now I can add bluetooth devices :)

I've tried the same on the synaptics settings, but to no avail.

So, Your mileage may vary, but try the Compatibility route. If not, then wait till 26 October (at least) and Dell will made publicly the W8 drivers available.

Some update regarding my last message. For Synaptics, with the Dell supplied drivers (For my Dell Studio 1555 at least), the settings window won't open to let me configure settings like continuous or circular scrolling.

But! I've installed the drivers from synaptic's website: www.synaptics.com/.../drivers, and even thought it looks different, all settings can be changed to one's liking :)

So, end of story is: You have 3 choices:

1) Wait for proper Windows 8 drivers supplied by Dell

2) Try using  Windows 8 compatibility

3) Install drivers from original HW manufacturer (AMD, Synaptics, etc)

Cheers.

Thanks SpeedStep!. Just what I was looking for. Excited and scared to update at the same time.

Est ce que Dell est au courant de la sortie de Windows 8 ???

Pour mon studio XPS 15 , aucun pilote à jour !!!

J'ai plusieurs PC : Acer, Toshiba etc ... tous sont à jour, seul Dell ne l'est pas.