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[FDSystems]

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Edited by FDSystems, 04 December 2012 - 01:12 PM.

[toxie]

Good news is that nvidia is right now trying to reproduce the issue on an optimus laptop. They already downloaded VP914, too bad the AIO installer is not ready yet. Anyway let's hope they will find out what's wrong.

 

 

I'm going to get involved into this, too, to help out with additional info.. thanx for the initiative!

 

EDIT: ok, i'm in the loop now.. hopefully something pops out of this that helps optimus based setups..

Edited by toxie, 04 December 2012 - 02:07 PM.

[xio]

Great ! Is there something I should tell them about the way VP handle GPU ?

[toxie]

Just tell them all they wanna know, i guess..

 

The rest i can hopefully take care of..

I guess the most important thing they found out already is that the slowdown happens for the built-in display, but not when something is connected via HDMI (like a TV)..

That should hopefully already give some necessary hints to them (i.e. maybe a very simple driver issue)..

[maceman]

Btw, didn't you mention in another post that you had it working with an MSI modified driver ?

Good memory!! Yes, this is the only one that is working for me right now with the GT540M. I am using the 268.12 driver but it is modified so that it recognizes my card. I guess when that driver came out, maybe my card wasn't made yet and thus unsupported. It works glitch free as far as looks...just doesn't self switch, only forced.


Yeah, Toxie is onboard!! Hopefully all this will gety us somewhere. Maybe they will make us our own personal driver for VP

[maceman]

Here an interesting update.... XIO if you have a chance to try this driver if it works for your card. Would be interesting.

 

I am mad because this is the first driver that played FP perfect and VP rendered awesome, yet it seems to be stuttery..not like jumpy like before more jaggity movements closer together.....  This is the closest i've gotten.

 

It switches the optimus as well, even without a profile set-up for vp or fp it switches. I just set the card to use the Nvida for all apps and it is working...

 

Arghhh. If we had someone from Nvidia who could show the difference with this driver, it would for sure point to the issue i think.

 

Driver:  http://www.nvidia.co...eta-driver.html

 

Cheers,

Maceman

 

here is a render. Looks awesome but has stutter....hmmmm.

 

[xio]

Unfortunately this driver does not support 600m series. I'll give it a try with a modified .inf file, but I doubt it will work.

 

I also tried last compiled exe (rev 376) but it doesnt change anything. And No news from Nvidia yet.

[TheMcD]

Hah. Reading this thread is almost cathartic in a weird way - I suppose seeing I'm not the only poor soul plagued by this nightmare is somewhat welcome in confirming I haven't gone crazy (at least not because of this).

 

Is there somebody who can recap what we know so far? I'm seeing that NVIDIA has actually been made aware of the problem, there's some drivers posted all over the place, and I'm not sure what exactly our combined knowledge stands at in regards to this dilemma. I'll give the last drivers Maceman posted a shot, just because what the flipping heck else can I do at this point?

 

EDIT: Well, that was a dead end. The installer wouldn't even let me install, citing not being able to find compatible hardware.

Edited by TheMcD, 07 December 2012 - 12:13 AM.

[maceman]

Hey McD,

 

To try that driver (or any driver)... If you look in the Display.Driver directory of the downloaded extracted driver, there is an .inf file which has the info of the cards...you can scroll through or use 'find' to look for your card. It must not be listed, which would give that error.

 

That is why we try to find a modified .ing, one which inserts your card...and then it is poke and hope.

There are instructions on how to modify the inf all over the net. Sometimes if you google search like this " GT540M(replace with your card) and Nvidia driver 275.27"  it will lead to you a modified .inf 

Cheers,

Maceman

[TheMcD]

Hey McD,

 

To try that driver (or any driver)... If you look in the Display.Driver directory of the downloaded extracted driver, there is an .inf file which has the info of the cards...you can scroll through or use 'find' to look for your card. It must not be listed, which would give that error.

 

That is why we try to find a modified .ing, one which inserts your card...and then it is poke and hope.

There are instructions on how to modify the inf all over the net. Sometimes if you google search like this " GT540M(replace with your card) and Nvidia driver 275.27"  it will lead to you a modified .inf 

Cheers,

Maceman

 

The kicker is, it's listed. Actually, scratch that, the true kicker is that I'm running an ASUS K53SV, which has the exact same card you have - the GT540M, which is listed a staggering amount of times in the various INFs.

[xio]

Here's Nvidia update from today :

 

our lab was able to replicate the issue and has escalated the bug to our development to investigate.
Hopefully they can determine the cause and add Optimus profile to work with this game. I'll let you know once a driver with a fix is available.

 

Let's all cross our fingers !

Edited by xio, 11 December 2012 - 06:44 PM.

[maceman]

Sounds good!

 

My guess is that once these tech now know what VP is like, they will be more busy downloading tables then troubleshooting

[xio]

or maybe they're 19 years old and never seen a pinball

[VALIS666]

Anything further on this? I have this exact same problem and it's so frustrating. I can play all tables fine with my integrated Intel HD4000 in my laptop, but it has graphical glitches. Then when I try to use my GTX 675m in my laptop to play demanding games (Bad Cats is the table I keep testing with) my frame rate is impossibly slow, like 5-10 fps! I've tried so many different settings, drivers, etc. and nothing works. VP simply does not work well with high end notebook GPUs right now.

Edited by VALIS666, 04 January 2013 - 11:14 PM.

[xio]

Welcome here VALIS666 !

 

No news from Nvidia yet. I'm waiting for the end of holidays and then I'll ask them where they're at and will keep you informed.

[VALIS666]

Thank you xio! I must have spent 8 hours last night tweaking various settings and reinstalling VP/VPM, various drivers, etc. to no avail. I need to stop worrying about it for now and wait to see if nVidia comes up with anything because it's obsessing me!

[toxie]

I can also hopefully share some news on Monday..

[xio]

I wonder what you mean toxie, intriguing !

[toxie]

Just that I can hopefully get some more info on the progress.. :/

[toxie]

So some news: Investigation still continues it seems.. So at least there is progress.. (But it also seems like it won't be lightning fast afterwards, but i guess that's mainly VPs fault (codewise/DX usage is evil))