vista video drivers needed

[mercmanuk]

hi
i need the driver for a geforce go 6600 to run with vista ultimate .the toshiba website say its unsuported and the nvidea website the same..anyone any ideas.
cheers all

 

[Sp!ke]

Yeah, go back to XP or purchase another GPU.

Sorry if its not quite the answer you wanted.

I could have tried to point you at some geforce nerds on binary chat somewhere who've compiled some hellishly buggy driver but I thought I'd save you a whole load of time and energy.

 

[nimmat]

Unfortunatly, the Geforce go 6600 and many newer graphics cards do not support the Windows Vista Aero so you will not be able to get the aero looks of the Ultimate. It will still look like Vista basic.

You may also have problems running Vista Media centre and graphics extensive games that need to communicate with the GPU directly.

Its a hard fact that I had to live with as well but eventually decided to upgrade the graphics card but unfortunatly thats not an option on a laptop.

I have a Toshiba M70 and have to run Vista Basic on it.

Cant help you here but someone else might know some ideas.

Nim

 

[Alfie]

hi
i need the driver for a geforce go 6600 to run with vista ultimate .the toshiba website say its unsuported and the nvidea website the same..anyone any ideas.
cheers all

Good luck. I've had a number of problems with vista and NVIDIA chipset graphics cards. I've even had the blue screen of death twice using Vista business because of the driver! Oh how I miss XP pro

 

[mercmanuk]

luckily i also run xp pro on the same laptop a toshiba qosmio.i'll have to wait untill a fix is out
cheers all

 

[nimmat]

dont think anyone is going to really bother to take out wdm drivers for these older graphics cards.

Nim

 

[whizzkid11]

As everyone has already mentioned, VISTA support for the later nVidia cards is still being developed, its a DirectX version issue with Vista and nVIDIA.

I believe some companies will be releasing the drivers at some stage, but currently its best to stick to XP? Even Microsoft have extended the shelf life/support of it as thats what customers like/want.