bochica :
Anybody having issues on the two recent drivers for 500 series on Win 7? I know some of the newer drivers made them almost inoperable, and my laptop with a 700m series/Win 8 is having issues too.
You should probably be getting your drivers from the manufacturer of your laptop. NV doesn't guarantee drivers from their site to work with ANY manufacturers laptops or PC's.
It's comic people think automatically you can just go to NV for drivers when they may have cards that are made specifically for the OEM and supported BY THE OEM not NV.
This is why you BUILD YOUR OWN if you want NV support. I'd venture to guess 1/2 of the complainers have OEM systems (dell, hp, etc) who provide their OWN WHQL drivers you should be using.
That's not to say this is the case for ALL systems, but a good portion are NOT using off the shelf components for vid cards. My Inspiron 9300 is an example. If I was to load NV drivers i have all kinds of problems in a lot of games (but I have a ton, so probably see it more than others that don't game a lot), so I always end up back running Dell's own drivers (which are far out of date mind you, and so is the laptop...LOL). I'd only count on boutique vendors to use off the shelf parts and even then it's iffy (like alienware might actually have a XFX card inside etc, while Dell might use a custom card and drivers).