GT70 w/ 670mx latest drivers slow. please help

Question

Hello,
I just recently got a GT70 with a 670mx in it. I changed the OS to windows 7 from windows 8.
My issue is that with the drivers from MSI's site that date back to Jan. most games run fine but after a bit Ill get a big FPS drop and the audio will start looping and the game will crash and the nvidia toolbar will pop up saying the driver crashed. I have tried reinstalling it and all and it still does that. I want to run the latest drivers which on the geforce website say support the 670mx 314.22 i believe. But with those installed cames will run and start lagging big time like its throttling. I've uninstalled and reinstalled many times and it still does the same issues with both. I received the laptop no more than a couple weeks ago and I would think it would have the latest windows 8 bios. Which I read it needs to stay with the windows 8 bios.
Any thoughts or advice? oh and running the MSI burn in test and all the GPU stays around 60.

Answer 1

When you're updating your drivers are you removing the old ones first?
When I update the drivers on my system I first go to add/remove programs and remove the physix software and then the main drivers, once thats done I reboot the system and run a program called Driver Fusion, its use to be called driver sweeper, have it search for Nvidia Graphics and Nvidia Physx, let it remove all the traces and then reboot, once back to the desktop go to geforce.com and get the latest drivers, once in the install do a custom install and hit the box to perform a clean install, even though it doesn't say to, reboot the system once more and al should be fine after that.
When I don't do this process I have the problem of games running slower, game crashes, random lock ups, just a living hell long story short.
Here is a link to download driver fusion, its free, you can pay for it if you want it to auto update but you can just download the updates your self the next time you update the drivers.
http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion
Have Fun :D
PS install Geforce Experience, you may like it, it changes the configuration on games to auto set the settings to your machine.
PPS, I also recommend going to Intel and updating your other drivers while the nVidia drivers are not installed so it will help nVidia Optimus work better. I also recommend you use there Driver Update Utility, it doesn't install anything on your system its just a java web app that looks at your system and then gives you a list of download links to update everything Intel in your system.