Earlier today, Zach posted about updating drivers for various NVidia Go cards and the frustration that usually comes along with that process. All notebook manufacturers who use these cards generally provide an ‘optimized’ driver that works well with the card and plays nice with the rest of the system. In many cases though, these drivers can hinder the capabilities of your card. And in almost all cases, updates are non-existant.
Case-in-point… I own a Dell Inspiron 8200 (yeah, I need to upgrade). When this machine was new back in 2003, it was bleeding edge and came with the quickest mobile video card on the market, the GeForce4 440 Go. As time went by, there were updates to many of the ‘official’ drivers for this machine, but there was only ever 1 ‘official’ video driver. This driver was released in April of 2003 and to give you some idea of how old these drivers are, NVidia still called them “Detonator” drivers and they were at version 42.58. Even today, this is the only video driver that Dell offers for this card/machine.
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