Ok, so maybe not officially released ones, but working ones none the less. I finally found a way to get this driver installed and wanted to share it with those of you that are using GeForce cards that you haven’t been able to get native drivers for Vista for.
This is specifically for those laptop users with Go cards like the 6xxx and 7xxx series.
The driver setup is straight forward and simple. It turns out the nVidia driver itself works fine with Vista, the problem is the .inf file that tells the installer which cards it works on doesn’t contain compatibility records for the cards. The .inf file I am including with this post contains nearly a hundred cards, download the file and open it with notepad to see if your file is in the list. The file itself comes from laptopvideo2go.com and I have installed it and tested it with fantastic results.
World of Warcraft was running around 45 frames per second on this laptop with marginal settings. With the updated driver installed I am getting just short of 60 frames per seconds with all settings on high. That’s a huge difference.
The details are simple, download the driver installer, extract it, over write the nv_disp.inf with the one at the bottom of this post, install the driver from the folder (run the setup) and reboot. Once your done, you will have the new control panel and a major increase in graphics performance. If you missed my last posts about WoW, the latest is here.
The files you need to perform this update are 10065_vista.exe, the 100.65 driver and nv_disp.inf, the update .inf file.
Thanks again to laptopvideo2go.com for this great update and let’s hope nVidia get’s their act together and has a nice installable for us soon.
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