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    NVidia driver for laptop

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by bloodandsoil, May 13, 2008.

  1. bloodandsoil

    bloodandsoil Notebook Guru

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    bloodandsoil, May 13, 2008
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  2. Icewalker

    Icewalker Notebook Consultant

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    Just curious: What's wrong with your current driver? A buddy of mine has this gaming laptop, and he had a hard time finding a stable driver. When he found one, he stuck with it. I'm just saying, if your current driver works OK, stick with it.
     
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    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    The site is correct, just make sure you get the modded inf also and overwrite that in the folder where you extract the driver.
    It will work afterwards.
     
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    Nocturnal310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    next to the 'download driver' link is the 'modded driver' link


    u have to download both & follow the instructions given on the site itself.
     
    Nocturnal310, May 13, 2008
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  5. bloodandsoil

    bloodandsoil Notebook Guru

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    Ok got it. I didn't understand at first that I had to copy the modified .inf into the extracted driver folder. It works now.

    To Icewalker: Using the driver from Gateway, Crysis would crash after about 30 seconds into the game. Consistently, every single time. After installing this new driver, I was playing Crysis for hours. So it fixed that problem.
     
    bloodandsoil, May 14, 2008
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    Zee_Ukrainian Notebook Evangelist

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    But you also have to remember that some games require up-to-date drivers. Not to mention that more features are added, and bugs do get fixed.
     
    Zee_Ukrainian, May 14, 2008
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  7. RePaRaQu

    RePaRaQu One name. One legend.

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    RePaRaQu, May 14, 2008
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