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[alexanderfc]

I am attempting to run a smooth(ish) game on a friend's laptop (Vista 32). but I'm having a few problems with drivers, he had the latest driver for hid Nvidia Geforce 8400m GS graphics card, from experience I know sometimes the latest drivers for Nvidia hardware do not support older games, I was right, it ran very well, but crashed about 10 minutes into DA:O running, I tried all the other drivers on the Nvidia website, but on the search it only displays the most recent. 

I tried running on the original factory driver but the game ran at an alarmingly slow frame rate, so started to search the web for older drivers than the ones on the Nvidia website but more recent than the factory driver. Not that it's terribly easy. I downloaded and installed v190.73 but an error with PhysX.

My question is this: What is the latest Nvidia driver for an 8m series graphics card known to work with DA:O?

Thanks.

Modifié par alexanderfc, 28 octobre 2012 - 05:43 .

[Just-Me]

nVIDIA's 8400 GT was designed for business graphics, not for games.  The card is now five years old, which is a very, VERY long time for low end video.  Put the same already low quality part into a laptop, and it has less capability than a more up to date onboard integrated video chip, so that there is nothing available to improve its poor performance, short of replacing the very elderly laptop, or choosing much older games, more appropriate to the graphics quality involved.

The choice of driver isn't a variable that will be of major importance in this case.  The easiest test is to seek a three year old Geforce driver, the same age as DA: O is. 

(And: If you think the Geforce 8400 card will suddenly change from a poor old Sow's Ear into a lovely silk purse just by asking the same question on a different forum, you are mistaken.  Sorry, but pigs simply do not fly.)

answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Origins/Nvidia-8M-Drivers/m-p/149576#U149576

Modifié par Just-Me, 29 octobre 2012 - 11:44 .