CALLING ALL Laptop Gamers! Recomended GPU Drivers for GTX 780M

[Futokuko]

Ive searched and searched but cant find any pertinent information about which Driver is best for the GTX780M. There is allot of talk and information for the desktop version but almost noting for the mobile version.

I would like to ask all my fellow Mobile PC gamers if they could suggest or share some information about thier driver experiences. Im planning to update my drivers but I cant seem to get any information about the new NVidia drivers for mobile versions of their cards. Im affraid of risking an update, just to have issues later.
Any advice would be much appriciated.

FYI

MY system:Windows 8.1
i7 4700mq
GTX 780m 4gb (311.06)
16Gb Ram

Some gaming performance infomation in Ultra 1080p - Average FPS

Borderlands 2: 98-110 FPS
Far cry 3: 45-58 FPS
Im looking to improve these figures with a better driver if possible

Thanks guys.

[Pant]

Just save a copy of the installer for your current driver so if a new one runs like crap you can just roll it back to the working one.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If the current drivers are in working order and stable, leave it be.
But if u want to try other drivers, I would go to the laptop makers website and re-download the current drivers so you have those backed up just in case. For using newer GPU drivers, first uninstall the current, then use whatever version u wish from NVIDIA.com

Should performance not be better or they are unstable for whatever reasons, then you will have the older drivers already downloaded to fall back on.

Given that you have GTX 780M on Win8, you should be using either 320.49 WHQL[www.nvidia.com] or 326.41 BETA[www.nvidia.com]. The newer 326 drivers are much better overall. I can't imagine why your laptop would have such an old driver with a 700 Mobile series GPU. But whatever the case, newer drivers should help all-around performance.

Just be sure whatever you get from NVIDIA as far as GPU drivers; that it is for 700M Series Notebook; not the regular 700 Series, as that is meant for Desktop GPUs.

I would also check for and update any newer Intel drivers[www.intel.com] (for your Chipset, SATA, etc.).

If for any reason you update the Intel GPU drivers; sometimes this can be buggy. If you run into problems then best bet is to first uninstall the NVIDIA GPU drivers; then uninstall the Intel GPU drivers. After rebooting and all; install the latest Intel GPU drivers and reboot as needed; then install the version of NVIDIA GPU drivers you wish to have on the system.

[SHON]

I'm on 320.49 (GT750M SLI), and they've been running good for the last month.

[Futokuko]

Originalmente postado por Bad-Motha:

If the current drivers are in working order and stable, leave it be.
But if u want to try other drivers, I would go to the laptop makers website and re-download the current drivers so you have those backed up just in case. For using newer GPU drivers, first uninstall the current, then use whatever version u wish from NVIDIA.com

Should performance not be better or they are unstable for whatever reasons, then you will have the older drivers already downloaded to fall back on.

Given that you have GTX 780M on Win8, you should be using either 320.49 WHQL[www.nvidia.com] or 326.41 BETA[www.nvidia.com]. The newer 326 drivers are much better overall. I can't imagine why your laptop would have such an old driver with a 700 Mobile series GPU. But whatever the case, newer drivers should help all-around performance.

Just be sure whatever you get from NVIDIA as far as GPU drivers; that it is for 700M Series Notebook; not the regular 700 Series, as that is meant for Desktop GPUs.

I would also check for and update any newer Intel drivers[www.intel.com] (for your Chipset, SATA, etc.).

If for any reason you update the Intel GPU drivers; sometimes this can be buggy. If you run into problems then best bet is to first uninstall the NVIDIA GPU drivers; then uninstall the Intel GPU drivers. After rebooting and all; install the latest Intel GPU drivers and reboot as needed; then install the version of NVIDIA GPU drivers you wish to have on the system.

Thanks for the advice Bad-Motha, I tried to update the nvidia driver last night using Dells service where they scan the machine for any update required and apparently i dont need to upgrade the Nvidia driver? I will try to manually update to thje 326.41 and see what happends, i will make sure to follow your steps. Thanks again.

[SHON]

Yes you need go manually download the driver from Nvidia's website. I don't bother with uninstalling the old driver anymore, I just do the custom clean install. Where the Nvidia installer erases the old driver before installing the new one.

[Futokuko]

Thanks Kaboom