Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

[Scrubjockey]

Has anybody had any luck getting Bioshock running on a VGN-AR41M, or any of the laptops that come with an Nvidia 8400M chipset for that matter? All I get is as far as the planecrash, the game logo and then it crashes. I suspect it has to do with the Nvidia drivers not currently up to date but am curious whether anyone else is experiencing this problem or is it just myself.

[Blencogo]

Hi Scrubjockey and welcome to Club Vaio.

Have you tried the Forceware driver ver 163.44 - optomised for Bioshock?

nVIDIA ForceWare X 163.44 for Windows Vista 32bit

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

[Scrubjockey]

Hi Scrubjockey and welcome to Club Vaio.

Have you tried the Forceware driver ver 163.44 - optomised for Bioshock?

nVIDIA ForceWare X 163.44 for Windows Vista 32bit 

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 

 

I had spotted the driver around, but couldn't get it installed on my laptop, but those instructions worked a treat! Thanks very much! :smileygrin:

[jesnche]

Hi Scrubjockey and welcome to Club Vaio.

Have you tried the Forceware driver ver 163.44 - optomised for Bioshock?

nVIDIA ForceWare X 163.44 for Windows Vista 32bit 

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 

 

Hi Blencogo, I have a FZ18M with 8400M GT graphics card also and I have a question about this driver.
Do i need to install this driver? Vista give me a 3,5 when It evaluates my system. Do I improve this note with this driver?

[Blencogo]

Hi BeWater,

This is still a Beta driver so I doubt if it will improve the Vista 'score'.

To be honest, I'm not quite sure how Vista arrives at this score but you would expect there to be an 'WDDM' driver by now that would give a reasonable performance score for the 8xxx series of GPUs. It seems to be a measure of video bandwidth.

It is probably a worthless measure - except for those who sell hardware upgrades!

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/pages/458117.aspx

[jesnche]

Thanks for your response Blencogo!

^_^

[kee-lo_]

If you have less than 256MB VRAM forget about it.

[jesnche]

Yes, It's incredible but FZ18M graphic card has only 64 Mb dedicated.

[rx7tt]

i downloaded this driver and followed the instructions, but its only offering me an update for geforce 8400m gs not gt ... how do i sort this out ? thanks for your help....

[GrosTony]

Hi everybody.

I have the same problem : I have a FZ18M with a 8400M GT.

I tried Oblivion, and it's very very slow, i can't understand, it worked better on my old computer which had lower hardware.

I tried Half-Life² (Dod:S, CS:S) and i have to set the the video option on middle, without, the game gets low. It's amazing. The same for Overlord...:(

Otherwise, NFL Madden 08 works very very well, at full performances, howsome.

I didn't try Bioshock yet, but I can't wait. I read that you guys had problems with games too.

Do you think the method offered by Blencogo will work on those last games I mentioned?
Because, like all other, the Nvidia website has not any driver for the 8400M GT. It's a shame.

So now I will try this method, and i hope it will work...