Alright, the ones that come from Asus are about 3 months out of date. I downloaded the newest WHQL certified drivers from Nvidia's site, and of course, they aren't designed to work with the mobile chipsets.

I went ahead and modified the drivers (changing the 6600 entries in nv4_disp.inf), and they work great. Only problem is, it kills the WHQL certification, and thus the annoying "This hasn't passed... blah blah blah" pop-up rears its ugly head.

Is there any way to kind of "hack" the security catalog, or am I just gonna have to make due? Reason I ask is because I want to include these drivers in my unattended install, and I don't think it will load them like it should if the drivers aren't WHQL'd.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Kai

WHQL certification just means that the drivers have been looked over ad approved by Microsoft. It means next to nothing, except Microsoft won't guarantee that they'll work with your Windows setup if they're not certified. But considering how often things that ARE certified screw up with Windows (in general, not on this computer specifically), I don't really think too much of their certification. I've got the 76.50 driver installed, it's not WHQL certified, and it works great! Check out Smilepak's review for more Nvidia driver info.

I have some additional info to add for anybody who wants to know. If you try to use "setup.exe" with any other driver, you'll probably have noticed that it always says that no compatible adapters are installed.

Well, here's how to get around that (so you can use setup.exe). In the stock drivers (you can get from CD or from asus support site), there is a file NVAM.INF. Simply copy this to your new driver dir, and voila - u can run setup.exe to install. At least it worked for me...

Muchas gracias. I (personally) don't really care one way or the other, the only thing I'm concerned about is my unattended install. It took forever, but I've finally got all my drivers in a row and don't want my video driver mucking up the entire operation.

Kai

What's an unattended install? Is it just when you format or something you can just run one file and it automatically installs all your drivers or what?

It's the same thing OEM's use when adding in their own proprietary drivers and all those garbage programs that eat up all your memory and cpu time.

Basically, when Windows installs... it automatically loads all the drivers I specify, and during the initial boot, it installs all of my programs, sets up my taskbar, and just about everything else without me having to touch it.

www.msfn.org is a great resource for learning how to make your own installs.

Kai

You could obtain any future version of nVidia driver from www.laptopvideo2go.com

This guy takes the nvidia driver and build the INF to support laptops on it. So you should not have any problem with it. I've used many times and using it now.

thanks smilepak, I'm going to try these drivers out as the most updated quadro drivers have some texturing issues with the default high settings in CS:source.

Tellerve

edit: I think I figured it out

There were bugs in nvidia driver prior to 71.84 version, including heat problem with the gpu.

Use 76.41 or higher. It is very nice and stable.

Why reinvent the wheel when www.laptopvideo2go.com already doing it to all beta and official releases of nvidia drivers eheheh

Sorry, I'm totally new at all of this, but does Nvidia even make drivers for their laptop cards, such as the Go 6600? If my understanding is correct, the laptop maker, not Nvidia, is responsible for these drivers?

I have an Asus Z71V and I'm having a problem that I think might be video card related (see below if interested). So I checked their website and saw only one driver: 7.1.1.3, which is already on my system. Are there other (more recent) Asus drivers available and what about the video drivers found on www.laptopvideo2go.com -- are they safe to use or will I get tons of error messages?



My problem:

When playing Sid Meier's Pirates the cursor will just freeze on the screen (doesn't seem to occur with Vampire: Bloodlines, the only other game I've installed so far). The freeze seems to occur randomly, but once it happens the cursor won't budge. When I quit the game, the cursor moves normally again. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem?

Of course, I searched for this problem on Google and there were a few hits suggesting that it may relate to the Nvidia GO 6600 video card. Anyone know anything about this? I checked my Nvidia driver and I think it was 7.1.1.3 (same as 71.13?). I looked briefly on the Nvidia website for new drivers, but the newest one available (sorry I forget the version) didn't list the GO 6600 as one of the supported cards.

Thanks for any help provided.

THE INF file is a text file that controls what graphics card to be used in. www.laptopvideo2go.com add notebook support to these drivers. I am using it now, very stable.

Pete: Can you check your CPU usgae when the game freezes for me? I am having a problem somewhat similar to yours where the game will stutter a lot, and the CPU is reporting 100% usage in Task Manager. Can you check what yours is reporting? Thanks!

Smilepak - I reviewed all of your posts relating to Nvidia drivers--there's a ton of them, but which driver are you actually using now and why and where can I get it?

B Nietsnie - I'm a total newby, but if you tell me how to check the usage, I'd be more than happy to

Using 76.50 and the 30.71 inf for my quadro. I did go back to the very first drivers to see if I could get it to stop having the gpu fan come on, but I think there isn't any difference. At least preliminarily I couldn't tell and figured that I hadn't given the original drivers enough time to see that they act very similarily to the ones I have now. Still tweaking of course, want to make sure that everything is working correctly with the ol' baby

CS:source works great in 1680x1050 with everything on high detail, except for reflections, that's only middle ground on the settting. In any case, it is at least nice to see that I can get "newer" drivers faster this way.

As for the clocking, the drivers that I loaded had a lot more options, one of which was the clocking and it is currently at 125mhz core and 332mhz memory. At least that's what's showing and I haven't clicked on it to change into being able to alter it. That was the reason for my other post about finding nvidia's specs on what the card can do. I doubt I'd clock it anything higher. As much as the urge is there I did get this for work first, gaming second.

Tellerve