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    Vista Graphics driver crashes

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by davkal, Apr 10, 2007.

  1. davkal

    davkal Notebook Guru

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    I have vista home premium installed, and I have a Go 7600 GPU. I have the most updated driver and any time I play a good game, such as Americas Army, or Medieval Total war the screen turns black and a message pops up saying display driver as stopped working but as fully recovered. Is there anything I can do to fix this. Everything else on my comp works as it should.
    -Davkal
     
    davkal, Apr 10, 2007
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  2. Yoshiii

    Yoshiii Notebook Enthusiast

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    LMAO, I was just saying the same thing on another thread....

    I have the same problems...seems to happen when I'm playing Oblivion or NFS: Carbon....

    Honestly, I'm just going to keep up with nVidia's web-site and wait for the Vista drivers....if they come out, and I don't have any more serious compatibility issues, then I'll keep Vista..

    If Vista wants to continue being lame-o, then I'm just going to format and start fresh with XP Pro.

    It's not the games that's causing the crashing, aparently, it's the cruddy nVidia drivers that Dell installed on it..

    If you notice on nVidia's site, for NOW at least, they don't even have official "Vista compatible" drivers...

    When I tried installing the XP Drivers, I got this error:

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    Yoshiii, Apr 10, 2007
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  3. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Go to www.laptopvideo2go.com and get a driver and an inf file. They have guides for how to install the drivers. I'm using 101.70, and they seem to be working fine (got them from the forum, they hadn't upp'd them on the main site the last time I checked)
     
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  4. davkal

    davkal Notebook Guru

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    I have that driver and it still crashes. These beta drivers suck, Nvidia needs to come out with some better drivers.
    -Davkal
     
    davkal, Apr 10, 2007
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  5. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Try one of the 9x.xx drivers for Vista; you can use our driver update guide if you need help installing the laptopvideo2go drivers.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Apr 10, 2007
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  6. davkal

    davkal Notebook Guru

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    Wow, thanks chaz. I installed one of the older drivers and I'm not getting any crashes. So now I can finally play my games. Wonder why the older drivers work better then the new ones?

    -Davkal
     
    davkal, Apr 11, 2007
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