NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Windows 7 64-bit drivers... no hope?

I've upgraded many laptops that have the GeForce Go 6150 video to Windows 7 but I've never found working drivers.

Windows is fine, Aero works, but you can't run the assessment without getting a 'video driver crashed' error.

Another annoyance is how long the screen is black before the UAC comes up when you try and run anything that requires elevation of the user account.

NVIDIA offers no driver for this video chipset under Windows 7.

HP (as most of these are DV series laptops) does not offer a driver either. The Vista driver does not work.

I find it hard to believe that everyone else out there running 7 on their laptop with this video is content with having no drivers... what's the deal?

 

What about this one?

 

I've seen that one but it doesn't install? Says I have no compatible hardware. I tried to force the driver update manually through device manager but it said I already had newer drivers (ugh)

 

can you post the complete device id?

 

Aaron, here's what you do

1. go to LV2G
2. near the top of the screen, click on "drivers" and click on the applicable OS for 285.79. (Make sure you get the right bit-system, 32-bit or 64-bit. You can check this in your computer's properties)
3. download BOTH the driver and the INF supplied with the linked driver. It'll be in a compressed folder that has a little "7z" icon.
4. Extract the stuff from folder, and drag the .inf from LV2G into the new 285.79 folder. Then open 285.79 folder, and drag and drop into "display.driver". A "do you want to overwrite this" blurb will come up. Say yes to putting the .inf in the folder WITH overwrite.
5. Follow Kingpinzero's guide the rest of the way.

It works fine with my Win8 M3-loaded 7950 GTX, which is running 285.79 as we speak.

Jason

 

Yes, I actaully noticed the inf zip inside the main driver file I downloaded from that link above. I extracted it to the same directory, overwrote the files, and the driver installed without a hitch!

No idea how well the drivers work but I'm just happy to have drivers!

 

I've noticed that 285.79-beta works quite nicely for my 7950GTX. It's not as fast as the last native 7-series driver (179.48) from 2009, but it lets me use PhysX and there are quite a few stability fixes in the past 2-plus years. Which driver did you use for your 6150, and how does it work compared to your last driver?

 

This one that Dufus above posted: v259.47 Windows 7/Vista 64bit | HP/Compaq - OEM INF - LaptopVideo2Go Forums

As far as I know it is the only driver for 7 64bit with the 6150.