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Necis
April 21st, 2009, 06:15 PM
I use a Macbook Pro model 4.1. Should I enable Nvidia accelerated graphics driver 173 or 180? 180 is in beta right? so would 173 be best?

cyberdork33
April 21st, 2009, 08:57 PM
I use a Macbook Pro model 4.1. Should I enable Nvidia accelerated graphics driver 173 or 180? 180 is in beta right? so would 173 be best?
just try one. If it works, it works. If it doesn't turn it back off, and try the other one.

Dougie187
April 21st, 2009, 09:01 PM
I think 180 would be the best one. I think 185 is the beta, and 187 is an alpha.

173 is what I currently use, just because for some reason I get weird graphics issues on my terminal with 177 and 180, but if I could I would use 180. Try the best, and work backwards.

Necis
April 21st, 2009, 09:13 PM
Thanks for the help. I enabled 180 and everything works good. Now I just need to see which is better for me for games.

jamesey
April 21st, 2009, 11:20 PM
I'd go with 173
180 is buggy and a regression in performance

hyperboloid
April 22nd, 2009, 03:27 AM
180 breaks suspend/resume on my MBP 4,1.

cyberdork33
April 22nd, 2009, 09:07 AM
180 breaks suspend/resume on my MBP 4,1.
there ya go, that is a good reason to not use it.