Some of you with laptops using NVidia’s various Go chipsets will understand the frustration involved when trying to update to the latest drivers.  My laptop, a Toshiba Tecra M2 with discrete GeForce Go5200 graphics, is a decent little gamer at the KOTOR/Guild Wars/Quake 3 level.  The problem is that Toshiba’s latest driver update is for version 46.44 of the NVidia drivers, and NVidia doesn’t support a unified driver architecture for most Go cards.

Well, here’s the fix.  The guys over at LaptopVideo2Go have a hacked inf file you can use to update your laptop graphics drivers.  What this does, basically, is remove the restriction from installing the drivers so you don’t get this error message:

nVidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit.

Here’s a link back to the thread with instructions for making the update:

ForceWare Updater’s Quickstart Guide

Gotta thank guys like that for keeping laptop gaming good, even on hardware that’s a little bit older.