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    Gefore 7950 GTX Vista Drivers

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ShadowCow, May 30, 2007.

  1. ShadowCow

    ShadowCow Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm sure this sounds like your standard "I don't know how to find drivers" message, but I am about at the end of my nerve here with Nvidia.

    I have a Sager NP5760 (Clevo M570U) with the Nvidia Geforce Go 7950 GTX, which came with Windows Vista 64 bit.

    I decided I wanted to give Vista a shot and checked out the drivers available from Nvidia, Sager, Laptopvideo2go, and various other driver providers.


    Nvidia - Driver does not exist. They offer no explanation to this that I can find, no "coming soon" or "sorry".

    Sager - Driver does not work correctly. Driver on their website installs but doesn't support higher resolutions or games.

    Laptopvideo2go - Have tried all kinda of drivers and inf mods from here, different combinations of compatibility but nothing solid, still game crashes or missing resolutions or screen flashes.


    I then ditched Vista 64, installed 32 bit, and figured the walk in the park would begin...

    of course not. Exactly the same options, just I don't get the "not supported in this os" message anymore.


    I can't be the only person that finds it more than 100% unacceptable that Nvidia hasn't released an Official driver for this card for Vista.

    Every topic I look through shows all kinda of drivers that people have had no problem with, but none of them are for Vista, for the 7950 GTX, or working correctly.


    Any assistance would be appreciated, has anyone got this card working CORRECTLY in Vista yet?
     
  2. bob1182006

    bob1182006 Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm using vista 32bit with Sager's Beta 7.15.10.9808 driver and have had no problems so far.

    Edit: also the driver is signed so you can use it on vista 64 bit.

    Hope maybe this version works for you!!
     
  3. SaifVM

    SaifVM Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey,
    I don't know if you have resolved your problem yet, but I've had the same problem after installing Vista on my Clevo M570U with the GO 7950 GTX. I was forced to use the 7900 GTX drivers but it showed too many glitches in games.

    After constant searching I found the "XTreme-G MobileForce VS 101.70 M6", I use the 32 bit version, but they also have a 64 bit version on their website.
    http://www.tweaksrus.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=163&Itemid=1

    These drivers work incredibly well and recognize it as a 7950 GTX instead of the 7900 GTX like others I had tried and has worked flawlessly on all of the 3d aplications I've used so far, Oblivion, and UT 2004.

    Hope this will help anyone that has the same problem.
    VM
    *edit- added link.