Timeshift pretty much raping my old drivers...

did you try removing your old divers first?

can you give me the exact error message

You have to replace the INF for the drivers to recognize your mobile card.

Your options are laptopvideo2go and MobileForce (the driver section here).

The INF is a way to modify the way the driver is installed and some key settings btw.

Whenever you get drivers from LV2G, you want to replace the inf with the one they have uploaded to the site. If you are using MobileForce drivers, then the modified inf has already been included and you just have to run the executabe.

Just a little clarification.

Lol I've stuck with my 84.69 drivers to increase performance, shame that every so often in TimeShift textures start turning blue for no reason...damn drivers!

You're under-performing your GPU if you use those older drivers in comparison to the newer ones, especially using the dell ones, it's really senseless to me someone using the 84.69 drivers (no offense). The reason you can't install the drivers from the nvidia site is because the INF included in those drivers don't include laptop GPU's, so when you try to install it says your hardware isn't compatable. In reality it is compatable, but nvidia doesn't want to support notebook drivers, they want the manufacturers to supply them. But then the manufacturers don't keep up and you're left with underperforming hardware. Get it?

So what laptopvideo2go does is modify those INF's, making the drivers compatable with laptop GPU's, so you won't get that error message when you try to install and it installs. The drivers you download from that site are the exact ones from the nvidia site, except you're putting the modded INF in the install folder so it allows you to install it.

It's pretty easy, you just download the driver and its modded INF from the site, extract the contents of the driver into a folder, take the modded INF and put it in the folder (it should then ask if you want to replace the INF file, say yes), and that's it. Just then uninstall your current driver and then click on the setup file in the driver folder.

Sorry for the long explanation, but I really hate to see someone handicapping their hardware because they're not knowledged about the subject.

No offence, I have tried using the latest drivers with modded .inf's, and most recent ones have reduced the performance of my 7900GS Go by around 4-5fps.

I'm aiming to point out how its best to check with older and newer drivers to see which ones perform the best for your OWN GPU card, I was not speaking generally. I know, 84.69 drivers are absolutely pathetic for other people, however I only found it gave me the best performance by comparing benchmarks with more recent drivers.

Recent nVidia drivers are optimised for the most recent hardware, each set of GPU cards has their own optimum range of drivers. Trust me just because I have only a few posts does not mean I am not knowledged enough in the subject. Yes the .inf's can be modified but some of the time certain GPU cards may not be included by nVidia in the driver for particular reasons. Most recent is not always best.

Just as an example:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...showtopic=8424

Furthermore:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...howtopic=10214

And why not:
http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/mega...ysis_bench.png

All examples of how most recent drivers may not provide the best performance, it all depends on your hardware and the games you might be playing.

Yeah, you're right, most recent isn't always the best. I just assumed that very old could never be the best lol. But I guess you proved me wrong if you did some testing and found what you did. When I did testing with my 7800GTX go earlier, I found that the 84.69 drivers cut my performance almost in half when compared to the newer drivers, so that's why I assumed they were just bad period.

Lol no problem, it's just a tiresome case of finding the most optimal ones. I wouldn't have a clue where to start with 7800GTX Go drivers, but I'd go through the main ones nVidia released, checkout www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum and have a look through their archived drivers. If you have a few spare hours have a dig around, but if your current drivers are doing fine, remember what drivers they are so that if you test any new drivers out which perform worse, you can always safely revert back to your working ones.

Basically good luck!

http://www.notebookforums.com/forum304.html

Take your pick. Also make sure your run drivercleaner to get all the old crap out.