Acer 9301 Vista graphics driver question.

Currently using NVidia graphics version 7.15.10.9755 the only one listed on Acers site for the 9300 series running Vista.
While I was playing around with a clean install of Vista on a 9301 Microsoft updates installed (recommended/optional update) a new driver which turned out to be 7.15.11.6369
Anyone know anything about this version. It seemed to work really well, and had many features the earlier one doesn't. Is it a notebook driver ? I also couldn't find it anywhere to download.

 

Windows Update does occasionally have their own drivers for certain devices.
If I were you, I'd look on LaptopVideo2Go to see if there's any more recent drivers for your card (what is it, anyway?).
I'm gonna poke around in my own collection of Nvidia drivers to see what the most recent Acer release is for you.

 

Thanks TehSuigi, it's GEFORCE GO 6100. The later one had settings for contrast, gamma, lot's of things really, that the other doesn't have.
I wonder if I uninstalled it, then asked Windows update to check if that would do anything.
It will be tomorrow when I look in again, thanks again.

 

Well, since it's a Go 6100, you can't use the 179.48 driver from Nvidia themselves (rock-solid stable and overclockable, but for 7 Series and up only).
But using the links and 3DMark06 results from my Acer Graphics Drivers thread, I can tell you that 179.44 would be your best bet (it's not an Acer release, but it's got a generic INF that supports every single GPU from the 6 Series)

 

Thanks TehSuigi, LaptopVideo2Go causes my IE8 to stop responding, have to close it from task manager. Tried a few times now. Will have a look on NVidia site again.

 

Nvidia's own website won't help - they don't have any drivers for the Go 6 Series.

 

Just a little update on all this.
It seemed that no matter what I tried I could not get any driver other than the original or windows own choice to install. Always met with the same message "no compatible hardware detected". Is there a way to "force" a driver on to the system ?
After a lot of playing around I looked further in the update driver tab and "compatible hardware" to look for all the drivers listed and in the end picked one for NVIDIA Forceware N405 ? I think it was from memory and this installed the driver I mentioned right at the start 7.15.11.6369
Seems OK and a lot more options with this driver. One thing that has to be used carefully, the brightness setting on the Nvidia control panel, as this seems to be able to take the brightness far higher than the other drivers, particularly as you can then turn it up even higher from the keyboard hot keys, which I reckon won't do the backlight and invertor any favours. I tend to use very low settings anyway, but just something to be aware of.