A couple of weeks ago, an ASUS Norway Support rep inadvertently leaked an early build of the NVIDIA mobile driver. This mobile driver was build (version 346.87) focused specifically on their line of G751 laptops. This driver was posted on an ROG forum by the user Gamenab who supposedly just came across the driver by chance.
The link to the experimental driver was removed shortly after posting, but not before the folks over at pcper were able to snag the driver for themselves to test on their own G751 laptop.
Now we have yet to hear a statement from Nvidia on the driver, but news of its existence spells more controversy for Nvidia. As if they don’t already have enough after the 970’s VRAM issue.
What do you think about the news of these experimental drivers? Let us know in the comments below.
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Mobile gsync before everyone has a fit over the title
Damn I want Nvidia to address this. 1. If it really works, how 2. Then why does the module exists?
Maybe they were able to get notebooks work without a special module, idk why it wasn’t officially a g-sync laptop then.
This was interesting but PCper did a huge video on this and pretty much showed the guy was a fake pretending he made the drivers and what not. Still it’s more bad news about Nvidia…. And even AMD’s Raptr got hacked. It’s been a messed up few weeks for PC tech fans.
And those dipshits at nVidia deserves it, first the 970 fiasco and now this. Keep digging nvidia LOL!
We all know they are doucebags so to hell with em. We nvidia users was also f*cked over by the 3d vision that they abandoned and then this g-sync come out and we was WOOW amazing. And now it seems we had to pay for a POS module thats not needed!
Those money hungry lying bas*ards gets what they deserve.
I will definetly wont support those A-HOLES again.
Viva la AMD!
until tomorrow when your trolling a*s is back with nvidia.
GO F*CK yourself DIPSHIT!!
This kids got a temper.
G-Sync and Free Sync are Adaptive V-Sync. Remember that? Well now that has a brand/name so they can charge you for it.
Marketing ladies and gentlemen.
Adaptive V-Sync will just disable v-sync when you cannot achieve 60 fps, and automatically enable it when you do. It’s very different, G-Sync and Free-Sync are basically giving you permanent v-sync no matter how many fps you are getting, without cutting the fps down to half the refresh rate of your monitor.
Thanks for clarification mate. Still is quite similar and yet they add more price to your monitors which “don’t need” that at all.
Yeah, but luckily AMD’s FreeSync doesn’t have a license, so it won’t add any cost to monitors. Nvidia on the other hand just license everything they can think of, because f’ open standards, better s*ck as much money as possible.
I hear that G-Sync will still give you tearing (or frame-skipping, can’t remember which) if the frames drop low enough.
Basically, what NVIDIA is trying to force you to do is to buy their Module license while using VESA Adaptive-Sync Technology !.
Let’s be more clear. CUDA was made to
force the developers to work on a NVIDIA GPU instead of an AMD GPU. The
reason is that, if CUDA was capable to be used more widely, like
DirectCompute or OpenCL, CUDA will certainly work better on AMD GPU.
This is not good for NVIDIA, and the same goes for PhysX that could work
on AMD GPU (actually working on CPU and NVIDIA GPU only).
NVIDIA wants to dominate the GPU segment
and they are ready to close everything they made and this is not good at
all. Always lying to their customers and to the developers.
The main problem here is that NVIDIA
doesn’t like standard, so they always make licenses for each of their
products and win a lot of Royalties.
Freesync on AMD = Adaptive-Sync like G-Sync
Back to the G-sync.
Why the modded drivers can make the G-sync
work ? The answer is : Bypassing the G-sync Module requirement. Like I
said G-sync is a Licensed Adaptive-Sync by NVIDIA. The G-sync Module was
never needed but NVIDIA needs to sell a License to make more money.
What is the G-sync Module ?
A PCB with an Altera FPGAs core, why ? This’ the reason why NVIDIA uses Altera –
Altera Security FPGAs
Basically the NVIDIA drivers control
everything between the G-sync Module and the Geforce GPU. The truth is
that the G-sync Module does nothing else than confirm that the module is
right here.
Which Monitors are compatible with the G-sync Modded Drivers ?
All the external monitors that include DP 1.2 (past 2010) and all the Laptops that include eDP.
Example : Yamakasi, Crossover, Dell, Asus (for example PB278Q), etc and MSI, Alienware, Asus, etc Laptop.
Which Geforce GPUs are compatible ?
Starting from G6xx to G9xx including mobile versions.
Hopefully this clear statement helps you to understand how the G-sync really works.
They did the very same thing with SLI bridge chip 😉 Thats why they need those big margins to pay smart people creating those stuff.
Well like said, laptop panels are different to desktop panels, even AMD demoed Freesync on laptops first because they work different.
Exactly. NVIDIA never tell that adaptive synchronisation can’t be done without their module. At time of presentation there wasn’t other way for desktop monitors to do that without G-Sync. NTB displays are different story.
Nice, hope this will work on my MSI gt70 laptop.
This has been reported as FAKE per guru3d . com
Link? I’d be happy to update the article.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=396671
This is where I got the call for fake
I see people calling it fake, but I don’t see where they explain that it is a fake. I’ll keep digging though.
Its not fake, its Altera Security FPGAs -> and its in the G-sync Module !
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=396671
This is what I was referring to.
Still loving the Asus ROG Swift G Sync monitor.
Yeah not a single problem with mine so far and is easily the best monitor I have ever used in my 30+ years of gaming.
In fact I’m going to buy a second ROG Swift when the price drops to replace my older secondary 120hz monitor.
For the price the minimum that it should be it’s “good”.
😛
Good luck to pay overprice for that toy POS module thats not needed matey 😉
You mean the 1 out of thousend that actually works, most of em hav issues so that was this biggest POS screen ever!
Im glad I sold my monitor with the rest of my gear last week, so right now im between a gaming comp!
Will start from scratch with the upcoming AMD gpu and that new upcoming Intel cpu. Cant wait to build a real gaming beast later in the year and it’s bye bye to those nvidia ni**az fa***ts!
Why are you so behind lately DSOG ?
this story came out friday O.o
We’ve been sitting on this one for awhile waiting for a response from Nvidia, but I figured I’d go ahead and write it up anyway and then update the article when we get an official statement.
yeah its better to update the article ASAP than wait and be late
Most sites just run a story but on a case-by-case basis we like to wait about 24 hours to give folks a chance to respond. We posted my story on the cease and desist related to Strafe about 2-3 days after I first began tracking the story because we wanted
to get both sides.
Not to say we’re infallible, there’s always room to improve 🙂 Sometimes you just end up having to run a story though because the involved parties won’t respond or just say something like “No comment”.
My understanding of the controversy is that G-Sync can be achieved with newer (cheaper) hardware simply on a driver level, but (and we’re yet to see this) laptop makers will attempt to inflate the price for a G-Sync branded laptop.
Does that about sum it up?
So, you’re saying I was right… ?
mhhh if they fix that flickering issue it could be quite interesting
So they present G-sync a year after AMD showed their Freesync on toshiba notebook. Good work NVidia!
Oh snap! *BRAP* Lets get ridgety ridgety WRECKED SON!!