Qosmio X300 (PQX31E) - New display driver from nVidia

Good news!
The Nvidia website has a fully compatible new driver for certain X300 models (those with short model no.-PQX31E,nvidia chipsets i believe).
Its driver 186.81 released about a month ago-so finally we can move on from the woefully outdated driver on Toshiba's site.
The new driver has increased SLI support for more recent games and enables PhysX acceleration from the GPU.
It also seemed to reduce my graphics card temperatures by at least 5c-it seems the fans work harder as i can hear them more.
One word of warning-dont follow the standard install procedure that Nvidia recommends-i.e. let the new driver uninstall your old driver and then automatically install its self.
I did this at first but had some problems with Dawn of war 2 crashing on startup.
So what you should do is the following....
1.Download Drivesweeper from Guru3D website.
2.Uninstall your old graphics driver using add/remove-its also worth uninstalling any PhysX driver as well.
3.Reboot into safe mode and run drivesweeper to remove remnants of the old graphics driver and Physx driver if applicable.
4.Install Nvidia mobile graphics driver 186.81 from Nvidia website and enjoy better performance in your games!!!

Al-ex-you misunderstand....a number of qosmio x300 models have hybrid SLI graphics so why that should sound strange to you in this forum is beyond me...
Also the driver i mentioned is more than generic if you read the release notes it states that it supports Qosmio x300 models but only lists 2 american model numbers-further research lead me to conclude that driver 186.81 is fully compatible with x300s that have nvidia not intel chipsets(nothing to do with GPU) and thus have model no. PQX31E-my Qosmio is oficially listed as x300-13w and with the 31E model no.
This driver is not unofficial like Doxs drivers on Laptopvideotogo website and doesn't require any special modification to work....its just that Nvidias uninstaller is inefficient and its a good idea to run drivesweeper before installing 186.81.
I'm enjoying better in game rendering and i can play red faction Guerilla without crashes and the laptop runs cooler...!!!!!

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