Help me understand Laptop Video2go

This has been mentioned a few times but I am still confused. I went to the website and found what I needed but............

What does it do/help? How do I download? Is it worth it?

I have a SZ140 with the Nvidia 7400 (I think)

Thanks

Jeremy

 

i am also interested in this, i downloaded the 8420 i think and installed but had some problems, if anyone has a specific set they installed with the sz120 and the steps they took to install i would be interested in listening to them.. thanks guys.

 

Basically laptopvideo2go hosts the newest Nvidia Forceware Drivers. Nvidia uses a unified driver model, so most any card is supported by the same driver. However, Nvidia does not update their laptop drivers, as this is left up to the OEMs that produced your particular laptop platform. Labtopvideo2go provides for a way to get the latest drivers (and with them latest bug fixes and performance tweaks) without having to wait for your OEM (In our case Sony...).

I have found it really straightforward to install drivers from the above site. I suggest you uninstall your Sony-provided Nvidia driver FIRST. Then, run the setup.exe (if there is one provided) making sure you have downloaded the modified INF file beforehand. Should work well for you. BTW I have tried many of the available drivers and 84.56 is pretty great IMHO. I have gotten a score of 4679 in 3DMark03 with the 84.56 drivers OC'ed to 550/760. Not bad I must say...

-Jason

EDIT: "labtop... I am such a guud spellar!!"

 

driver installed ok but now when I go to play Need For Speed Most Wanted its just a small screen size???? Any ideas on why its not full screen anymore?

 

I tried googling for Labtopvideo2go ,but Google turns up zero results. Labtopvideo2go.com/net/org doesn't exist either. Does anybody know what its URL is?

 

it helps if you spell it laptop not labtop

 

duhh.oops. <runs off and hides behind a door>

 

What are some drawbacks to just updating drivers and not uninstalling the older drivers? I updated to laptopvideo2go drivers without uninstalling the orginal drivers and didn't notice a difference in my 3dmark05 scores.

 

From what I've read laptopvideo2go sounds really interesting, so I checked it out and found myself lost. Would anybody mind linking the latest NVIDIA driver update for the SZ? Thanks!

 

They also have a forum with the people who write the modified .infs to answer questions

 

hahaha 0wned

Btw NFS: Most Wanted Runs full screen for me you just got to get it to change into widescreen...either through the options or through the registry...Google it...thats how I made mine Widescreen .

 

I must be incompetent. I've scoured the laptopvideo2go forums for new drivers for the SZ140 and can't find anything. sigh.

 

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?drivers

84.56

Then download and save the INF file below that and replace with the one extracted.

Let me know if this doesnt work for you. It worked fine for me but I dont use any tools to measure performance.

 

You wont find it for SZ140...the drivers are for Geforce...all of them

so get the latest one and you will be fine.

 

how do you set it for widescreen. it showed up on my laptop as regular size not using the widescreen. i went into video settings and was only able to adjust brightness

 

Ok I want to see if I got this right. I downloaded 84.56 and then got the INF of 84.43. Then it installed and rebooted. Now the Nvida is showing as a desktop manager. Is that right? Can I delete the extracted file from my desktop now?

 

To set it for widescreen you have to get this from the website and pretty much follow what it says to do. I have this for mine and it is very simple.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2276

 

Thats it...thats how I did mine too.

 

oh a hack. cool, thanks for your help. i know its off topic

 

Cool...Maybe Off Topic but important as is

 

I tried installing 84.56 but a screen came up saying "The NVIDIA setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit." Any thoughts on why it may be doing this?

 

You have to replace the .INF file that was extracted with the .exe with the INF provided on the laptopvideo2go's website for that driver. Then run Setup.exe and it should work .

 

Ditto on what Aer0 said. BTW I have been on version 84.56 for a week now and I must say I am getting much, much better performance than with the stock Sony piece. This new driver has fixed a few problems I was having with Top Spin... whenever I would try to turn on AA in the driver settings the screen would flicker... not now. I can play lots of games on 4xAA and 16xAF @ 1280x800. Of course YMMV depending on what games you play. I am very happy with this notebook... I never expected an ultraportable to be even a fair gamer.

BTW: This driver was put out originally by EVGA and has some enhancements for dual core processors... plus the fact it has Coolbits enabled via the modded INF... And PureVideo hardware MPEG 2 and h.264 acceleration... so I think it's a good choice for the SZ.

 

The INF creation is a little vague. Am I to understand that I do the following:
1) Download 8456.exe.
2) Copy this info (below) into a file called modded.inf, and then try and install the file modded.inf:

; Mobile GPU's by www.laptopvideo2go.com
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0244.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 "
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0247.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0098.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0099.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_009C.1 = "NVIDIA G70GL"
NVIDIA_G71.DEV_0298.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS"
NVIDIA_G71.DEV_0299.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX"
NVIDIA_G71.DEV_029A.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M"
NVIDIA_G71.DEV_029B.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M"
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D6.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200"
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D7.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300"
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D8.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400"
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01DA.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M"
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01DB.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M"
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01DC.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M "
NVIDIA_G73.DEV_0398.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600"
NVIDIA_G73.DEV_0399.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT"
NVIDIA_G73.DEV_039A.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M"
NVIDIA_G73.DEV_039C.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M"
NVIDIA_NV11.DEV_0112.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce2 Go "
NVIDIA_NV17.DEV_0174.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go "
NVIDIA_NV17.DEV_0175.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go "
NVIDIA_NV17.DEV_0176.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go 32M"
NVIDIA_NV17.DEV_0177.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go "
NVIDIA_NV17.DEV_0179.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M "
NVIDIA_NV17.DEV_017C.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro4 500 GoGL "
NVIDIA_NV17.DEV_017D.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 410 Go 16M "
NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0186.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go "
NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0187.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go "
NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_018D.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go "
NVIDIA_NV28.DEV_0286.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go "
NVIDIA_NV28.DEV_028C.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro4 700 GoGL "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_0316.1 = "NVIDIA NV31M "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_0317.1 = "NVIDIA NV31M Pro "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5600 "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031B.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5650 "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031C.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 700 "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031D.1 = "NVIDIA NV31GLM "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031E.1 = "NVIDIA NV31GLM Pro"
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031F.1 = "NVIDIA NV31GLM Pro "
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 "
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0325.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5250/5500 "
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0328.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 32/64M "
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0329.1 = "NVIDIA NV34MAP "
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_032C.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 53x0 "
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_032D.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5100 "
NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0347.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5700 "
NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0348.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5700 "
NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0349.1 = "NVIDIA NV36M Pro "
NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_034B.1 = "NVIDIA NV36MAP "
NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_034C.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 1000 "
NVIDIA_NV41.DEV_00C8.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 "
NVIDIA_NV41.DEV_00C9.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra"
NVIDIA_NV41.DEV_00CC.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 1400 "
NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0144.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 "
NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0146.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 TE/6600 TE "
NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0148.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 "
NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0149.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 GT "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0164.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0166.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6250 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0167.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0168.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_016B.1 = "NVIDIA NV44GLM "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_016C.1 = "NVIDIA NV44GLM "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_016D.1 = "NVIDIA NV44GLM "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0228.1 = "NVIDIA NV44M "

 

Follow these directions:

1.) Download 84.56.exe and extract to 84.56 folder on your desktop.
2.) Right-click on "Modded INF" and "Save Link As" into the 84.56 folder on your desktop. It will ask for permission to replace the "nv4_disp.inf" file. Allow it to do so.
3.) Run Setup.exe and you should be all set.

-Jason

 

Did that. and got the "The NVIDIA setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit" message.
My card is a GeForce Go 7400 on an SZ.

Current contents of nv4_disp.inf are:
; Mobile GPU's by www.laptopvideo2go.com
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0244.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 "
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0247.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0098.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0099.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_009C.1 = "NVIDIA G70GL"
NVIDIA_G71.DEV_0298.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS"
NVIDIA_G71.DEV_0299.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX"
SNIP

It does not contain anything else. I removed all the nVidea provided data such as,

; NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Display INF file
; Copyright (c) NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.

[Version]
Signature = "$Windows NT$"
Provider = %NVIDIA%
ClassGUID = {4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Class = Display
CatalogFile = NV4_DISP.CAT
DriverVer = 04/16/2006, 8.4.5.6

[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir = 11
nv4.Miniport = 12
nv.Display = 11
nv.CoInstaller = 11
nv.Panel = 11
nv.Help = 18
nv.oldrm = 12
nv.delete.systemfiles = 11

[SourceDisksNames]
1 = %DiskID1%

SNIP

Maybe one has to replace the localised strings part with the modded portion of the modded.inf?

; Localizable Strings
NVIDIA = "NVIDIA"

 

Why did you edit the INF? Just used the INF that is provided "Already Modded." This will work.

-Jason

 

The was no INF provided with this download, except a file called nv4_disp.inf, which doesn't work. (see earlier set-up error)

The modded.inf, is one that I downloaded from the examples page under Laptop-based GO cards;
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9243

I think that I am missing a vital part of the instructions.

 

So AFTER you replaced the original INF with the one from the 84.56 thread you were still not able to install the driver? Hmmm... that is odd seeing as the Modded INF removes any restrictions on what type of card is required to install the driver. Can you list in order how you got to where you are currently so that I can try to help?

 

1) Downloaded 8456.exe into C:\Sony Setup\Drivers\Video2\Laptop2go
2) Unzipped into C:\Sony Setup\Drivers\Video2\Laptop2go\8456
3) Tried to run setup.exe - Failed as expected.
4) Created a new file called modded.inf, which contained the entries from Laptop-based GO cards; http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...showtopic=9243
5) Copied modded.inf to file C:\Sony Setup\Drivers\Video2\Laptop2go\8456\nv4_disp.inf, which replaced the original file nv4_disp.inf
6) Ran setup.exe - Failed with error message: "The NVIDIA setup program could not locate any..."

 

I looked at page
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9617
and the modded INF icon is greyed out. Was there a modded inf file for this to download?

 

Check the thread of that specific driver in their message boards, you will find it...I didnt know either (Jason_Thames told me )

If you cant give me the Driver version you are trying to get, ill find it for you ?

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9616 You are trying to get the 64bit ... get the 32 bit INF.

 

Well... that is your problem. You are trying to install a 64bit driver onto a 32bit Windows XP install.

Try this link:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9616

-Jason

 

Ravz beat me to it LOL...

Good Man.

 

Thanks Jason, but I owe it to you, I wouldnt have known it unless you had told me earlier today

 

Thanks folks. I knew it had to be something silly like this. Now, how do I spell labtop?

 

Rock! Everything works. Thanks.

 

Do the laptop2go drivers have smartdimmer support?

 

Yes they do.