Nvidia laptop drivers.... FYI.
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Just an FYI as I know a lot of people in here are buying laptops (or have laptops) running Nvidia Go graphics systems.
Ever tried to install that latest forceware drivers and had them tell you that it can't find any valid hardware? Well that's because Nvidia don't officially support the Go chipsets, it's up to the OEM's to provide modified drivers for you to use. Which is pants, because Dell's latest driver for a Go 6800 Ultra has a date of 2005 on it (the 7000 series are also out of date).
www.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?drivers
Download the drivers and the INF file. The driver package is a self-extracting zip file (I ran both it and the extracted contents through AVG and it's clean), extract the files to a directory and copy the nv4disp.inf you downloaded over to the same directory you extracted the files to; tell Windows to overwrite.
Run the setup executable and let the new drivers install and reboot when prompted.
The different the latest drivers made is incredible; Games are a lot smoother and quicker with texture tearing on some engines being removed (noteably Dawn of War), the updated drivers have slightly better power saving control as well so extended battery life is in the offering... bonus.
Never seen anyone mention this here so I figured I'd post... I'm also adding this to our little FAQ.
Ever tried to install that latest forceware drivers and had them tell you that it can't find any valid hardware? Well that's because Nvidia don't officially support the Go chipsets, it's up to the OEM's to provide modified drivers for you to use. Which is pants, because Dell's latest driver for a Go 6800 Ultra has a date of 2005 on it (the 7000 series are also out of date).
www.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?drivers
Download the drivers and the INF file. The driver package is a self-extracting zip file (I ran both it and the extracted contents through AVG and it's clean), extract the files to a directory and copy the nv4disp.inf you downloaded over to the same directory you extracted the files to; tell Windows to overwrite.
Run the setup executable and let the new drivers install and reboot when prompted.
The different the latest drivers made is incredible; Games are a lot smoother and quicker with texture tearing on some engines being removed (noteably Dawn of War), the updated drivers have slightly better power saving control as well so extended battery life is in the offering... bonus.
Never seen anyone mention this here so I figured I'd post... I'm also adding this to our little FAQ.
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