topic Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT? in PCs & Accessories

Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

Scrubjockey — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:48:29 GMT

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.

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

Blencogo — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:37:57 GMT

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

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

Scrubjockey — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:07:51 GMT

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:

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

jesnche — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:25:34 GMT

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?

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

Blencogo — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:29:03 GMT

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

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

jesnche — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:21:11 GMT

Thanks for your response Blencogo!

^_^

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

kee-lo_ — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:40:04 GMT

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

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

jesnche — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:46:13 GMT

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

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

rx7tt — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:46:58 GMT

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....

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

GrosTony — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:25:53 GMT

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...

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

jumpsuit — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:37:59 GMT

I've run Bioshock without any problems on the Ar31S

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

GrosTony — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:10:39 GMT

I everybody

Here's my feedback of the driver upgrade with the method written on this thread...

Very good! All the games I tried are all much better. Team Fortress 2 is so beautiful.

But i still don't understand why Nvidia does not release an official driver for the 8400M GT. It could do the happiness of a thousand of owners.

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

97122769 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:29:48 GMT

Instead of new drivers, goto

- Games folder in the start menu.
- Right click on Bioshock
- Click `run as DX9` tab.

I had the same problem on my FZ11Z, but the above fixed this. Downloading those drivers messes up other games (BF2142 etc).

V.Syn

Re: Bioshock on Nvidia 8400 GT?

shabba1000 — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:58:43 GMT

I am having a problem with my 8400M GT and counterstrike. People seem to go grey/white in the distance and it becomes impossible to tell what team they are on. There are no drivers available to fix this, what do i do!?