Help with NVIDIA drivers 275.33

[sandro1992]

hey guys im know im new and all but i've been having this problem for awhile now, i saw a tutorial on how to get the drivers working but the thing is when i go to my NVIDIA display drivers theres no nvdm.inf for me to replace and even if i do stick it in there it makes no difference.. i tried calling dell technicall support and theyre not really helping me tonight, if you guys cant help me i might try and call them tomorrow and hope for the best. by the way guys im trying to run GTA4 on it since the 295 drivers make it all stuttery and all.

Much is appreciated if you guys can help.. sorry if this sounds noobish

[raymosrunerx]

What OS do you run?

Added after 4 minutes:

Regardless, if you updated, and then had problems with it, then you can always roll back the drivers (I think).

Open the Start Menu

Right click on "Computer" and then click on "Manage"

On to the left panel, click on "Device Manager"

On the right panel, expand "Display Adapters"

Double click on "Nvidia GeForce GT 555M"

Click on the "Driver" Tab

Click on "Roll Back Driver" if it is active.

Otherwise, if it doesn't work/grayed out, then it probably means that when you installed the drivers for the first time (after re-installing the OS presumably like me), then the first driver you installed on the card was probably a later version of the driver. If that's the case, wait for a bit until a more experienced person helps you out :3

Added after 5 minutes:

I just now saw this, but under the "Driver" tab, you have the option to uninstall the driver. You should give that a go and then re-install the driver

Edited February 24, 2012 by raymosrunerx

[Stevenxowens792]

@Sandro - need details on what type of machine you have. Model, specs, etc... Also for GT4, prepare for disappointment. Its just not meant to run on pc. Im not saying that to be mean, its just a very bad port and literally thousands have tried and it just doesn't work out well. If your set on that type of game try Saints Row 3. Runs smooth, good graphics and all around better pc experience.

Good luck, StevenX

[mw86]

stick to the latest 295.73 driver and make a profile in control panel for grand theft auto and test game change a setting or two test change setting etc... make sure transparency sampling is not at full 8x try multisample or 2x maybe have ambient occlusion off or on performance. It should still be playable but unlike other games try to see what it says in option as your video memory load use lower resolution or much lower view distances and 4 or less shadows at all. Cpu is big player in this if you can improve there that may help. Unless i had lower cpu overclock last i played it was on 920xm and if 8thread speeds were too high it stuttered badly. Biggest thing is lower the graphics high res reflections and some others.

[sandro1992]

thanks for the reply, on my old alienware a support tech guy managed to get the drivers working onit but now with my new one i've ran into many problems here are my specs Intel® Core™ i7 2670QM (2.2GHz,3.1GHz,w/Turbo Boost, 6MB Cache) 3.0GB DDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M using NVIDIA Optimus™ technology 8GB⁴ Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz i also tried running the game on low settings with the stock 267.xx drivers but it only reads my 58mb intergrated graphics, right now im getting help from the guys from gizmo, opefully he can help me out hes more experiecened then the dell support, but thanks for all of your replys guys, much appreicated.

@ mw86, thanks for the response: the 295.73 drivers are horrible on my pc for every game even race driver grid, fairly easy game to run

i've tried that now im stuck with the offical stock drivers, hopefully the tech guy can help me from here

Added after 3 minutes:

stick to the latest 295.73 driver and make a profile in control panel for grand theft auto and test game change a setting or two test change setting etc... make sure transparency sampling is not at full 8x try multisample or 2x maybe have ambient occlusion off or on performance. It should still be playable but unlike other games try to see what it says in option as your video memory load use lower resolution or much lower view distances and 4 or less shadows at all. Cpu is big player in this if you can improve there that may help. Unless i had lower cpu overclock last i played it was on 920xm and if 8thread speeds were too high it stuttered badly. Biggest thing is lower the graphics high res reflections and some others.

with the 275.33 drivers im able to run GTA 4 at pretty decent settings with high textures and full res, and still get a nice 40fps.. im striving right now to get these drivers hopefully installed.

Edited February 25, 2012 by sandro1992

[mw86]

In that case i guess your stuck with whichever driver will load for you and give decent performance. Thats strange you have issues on 295.73... I have a antiquated GT130M running great on that driver an older Hp computer... The gpu is even a Hp modified one and it still uses the latest drivers. Im thinking these issues are all because of your system running on optimus ive heard many unhappy users complain of optimus woes. My m18x and the HP dont have optimus... Maybe thats part of these issues. Maybe whichever driver you use perhaps it needs more tweaking since its optimus. Hope those people can help... members here may have some suggestions... Your gt550m is a common card and many have theirs running on latest drivers with good performance. Maybe m14x users can elaborate too. If your 275 doesnt help try latest non beta not sure but it might be 292 or something. Could be a beta feature causing you issues also they must be for mobile the .inf twaek rarely works... Goodluck my friend welcome to Tech Inferno

[sandro1992]

In that case i guess your stuck with whichever driver will load for you and give decent performance. Thats strange you have issues on 295.73... I have a antiquated GT130M running great on that driver an older Hp computer... The gpu is even a Hp modified one and it still uses the latest drivers. Im thinking these issues are all because of your system running on optimus ive heard many unhappy users complain of optimus woes. My m18x and the HP dont have optimus... Maybe thats part of these issues. Maybe whichever driver you use perhaps it needs more tweaking since its optimus. Hope those people can help... members here may have some suggestions... Your gt550m is a common card and many have theirs running on latest drivers with good performance. Maybe m14x users can elaborate too. If your 275 doesnt help try latest non beta not sure but it might be 292 or something. Could be a beta feature causing you issues also they must be for mobile the .inf twaek rarely works... Goodluck my friend welcome to Tech Inferno

thanks for your reply, im about 90% sure these 275.33 drivers will work since it worked on my previous, i just have no idea how the old tech guy did it.. im hoping the guy thats helping me now will be able to figure it out.. im pretty sure theres something i was doing wrong or something like that.. but right now we've deleted the NVIDIA drivers folder both the one out side the programs file and the one in it, and now we're going to try to install a fresh 275.33 driver and try the steps again hoping it will all work.. we did discover that the driver from the 275.33 was missing the international folder, but instead had the english one also found that in the program files NVIDIA corp folder the nvdm.inf was there in the display.driver.0 instead of being in the NVIDIA one out side of the programs one, could im pretty a bit confised about why the international folder doesnt appear.. hopefully the guy whos helping me can work this out.

[mw86]

thanks for your reply, im about 90% sure these 275.33 drivers will work since it worked on my previous, i just have no idea how the old tech guy did it.. im hoping the guy thats helping me now will be able to figure it out.. im pretty sure theres something i was doing wrong or something like that.. but right now we've deleted the NVIDIA drivers folder both the one out side the programs file and the one in it, and now we're going to try to install a fresh 275.33 driver and try the steps again hoping it will all work.. we did discover that the driver from the 275.33 was missing the international folder, but instead had the english one also found that in the program files NVIDIA corp folder the nvdm.inf was there in the display.driver.0 instead of being in the NVIDIA one out side of the programs one, could im pretty a bit confised about why the international folder doesnt appear.. hopefully the guy whos helping me can work this out.

i take these steps on toruble drivers delete all those files like you said but use driver sweeper to wipe out hidden registry entries and manually go to device manager and uninstall the driver from the device check the box to delete the driver too its important restart and recheck driversweeper comes up with nothing for nvidia... and device manager should say VGA adapter and no nvidia files left... then start the install. check Alienware M14x thread for GT555m and see what driver is working for others it will no doubt work for you what they use if 275 still dont load after the above

edit:

this one should help this guy had trouble on install and arent using 275build seems a old driver performance wont be as good as the latest WHQL driver like StevenX suggests in that thread

http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m14x/1397-m14-w-3-0gb-ddr3-nvidia%AE-geforce%AE-gt-555m.html

this one should get you more performance in those games

http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m14x/561-%5Bmod%5D-voltage-increase-nvidia-gt-555m.html

Edited February 25, 2012 by mw86