Andrew55 Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Are you sure those very old drivers gave you good performance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hal Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Are you sure those very old drivers gave you good performance? When you say "very old drivers" I am not sure what your reference is for the age of them. Originally, I used this forum to ask users what worked best for them. Based upon my notebook which is a Toshiba Satellite P25 S-609, with the FX Go5200, these drivers were recommended to me. My machine originally came with XP but I have upgraded to Vista Ultimate. When you run the Vista Performce test with the test scores, I was getting a score of "1" and none of my video memory was recorgnized by Vista at all. When I installed thses drivers and the modified .inf, I got a score of 2.5 and all of my video memory is now recognized. I run dual monitors and so far, it has worked pretty well. Occasionally I get some screen flicker when launching someprogram but all in all, it's been pretty reliable. I had tried other drivers previously. Some older and some newer but with everyone I had some type of problem that was unaacceptable. So, just becasue a driver is newer, does not mean that it will work better. I will say that I have not checked recently to see if there is something very recent. I know that it's likely Toshiba will never have a driver becasue they never updated their original driver for XP even once. I do not know what could be done to make this video card run any better than it is running now. I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Indeed yes, Vista driver 98.13 with a score of 2.5 is the best we've found so far for the Go5200. This late in the driver development process, I doubt we'll see anything better for that card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfelelep Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 what about xp driver for the Go 5200? I'm using 84.25 driver. Not too much heat, decent results in doom3, good videos, fits me. any other advice per chance? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Sharpe Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 So is it all over for the FX Go 5xxx and Vista? I have been stuck on 98.13 for a long while now. I can enable Aero but it drops out if too many windows are open. This evening I tried a bunch of drivers, ranging from some of the latest, to some of the early 100.x drivers. None are better than the 98 series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isaac.S Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Hi all, I have been playing with drivers on my M200 and this is what I have found. I have a Toshiba M200 Geforce FX go5200 32mg. 1.5gb Ram running a clean install of Vista Ultimate. Tried 97.54, 97.59, 98.13, 179.13. The 97 series worked ok. Rotation worked but could not run aero reliably. Sometimes could run, other times would crash. 179.13 would lock up and still display but the device would show an error in device manager. I could never get above a 1.0 experience with these drivers. Currently I am using 98.16. I tried 98.13 and it worked but gave a dll error relating to the nvidia control panel or something, so I downloaded and used the install package from the 98.16 driver. Works like a charm. Rotation works. Aero gives me a 2.0 rating. Seems stable for the couple hours I have been running it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nyoooo Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Hi, I'm running a 5650 go on a Dell inspiron 8600 using ver 167.26 Drivers and a modded inf from the forum. I've found they work the best so far (only stable ver that does not have tearing in high res video) but I have a problem with switching between the laptop display and my attached monitor. Whenever I switch to the attached, using either the presentation function or using nview, the laptop monitor turns white instead of turning off. I've tried switching which installed monitor driver is primary and attached but that doesn't help. Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe something in the inf needs editing and a reinstalling the drivers with fixed parameters would help, but I would know where to look or what change would fix it. Would appreciate any help on this. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Oh noes Nyo-t again... Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Oops, typo, I mean I wouldn't know where to look...etc Hi, I'm running a 5650 go on a Dell inspiron 8600 using ver 167.26 Drivers and a modded inf from the forum. I've found they work the best so far (only stable ver that does not have tearing in high res video) but I have a problem with switching between the laptop display and my attached monitor. Whenever I switch to the attached, using either the presentation function or using nview, the laptop monitor turns white instead of turning off. I've tried switching which installed monitor driver is primary and attached but that doesn't help. Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe something in the inf needs editing and a reinstalling the drivers with fixed parameters would help, but I would know where to look or what change would fix it. Would appreciate any help on this.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Sharpe Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Great news for FX Go 5xxx series owners - Windows 7 is running perfectly on my Toshiba M200 and Aero never drops back to Basic! To get acceptable performance at 1400x1050 I have to disable transparency, and occasionally the screen will flash back (presumably as Aero restarts or something) but I have not had a single drop out to Basic. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BogyMan Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 where can i download that driver, which works for you on windows 7? what version is it? Great news for FX Go 5xxx series owners - Windows 7 is running perfectly on my Toshiba M200 and Aero never drops back to Basic!To get acceptable performance at 1400x1050 I have to disable transparency, and occasionally the screen will flash back (presumably as Aero restarts or something) but I have not had a single drop out to Basic. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anonymous Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 Any of the Vista drivers will work with Windows 7. Running 98.16 on a Toshiba M200 without any complaints other than suspend blanking out the screen on resume. The latest Toshiba supplied drivers (97.5X) worked fine but were a bit slower than these. Windows 7 really has given this laptop a lot more life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bogyman Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 yea could say the same - now its mouch faster everything - i have installed the toshiba drivers - will try now the 98.16 - thanks for the suggestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StickyD Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 I got 185.20 working in windows 7. Portege M205-S810, 2GB RAM, GeForce FX Go5200. I took the .inf file from the vista driver (97.XX?) that was posted on the European Toshiba site, and added stuff from that .inf to the modded .inf LTV2G offers. It works, even with AERO. The only problem is that the screen cuts out and quickly returns when there are more than 3 windows open. This is giving my old tablet some extra life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Sharpe Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 I got 185.20 working in windows 7. Portege M205-S810, 2GB RAM, GeForce FX Go5200. I took the .inf file from the vista driver (97.XX?) that was posted on the European Toshiba site, and added stuff from that .inf to the modded .inf LTV2G offers. It works, even with AERO. The only problem is that the screen cuts out and quickly returns when there are more than 3 windows open. This is giving my old tablet some extra life! Do you fancy posting the INF you've created? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danei Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 I get 98.16 work perfectly on my Hasee p240e of Go 5250, Vista 32 with aero open. But I still want some higher version driver because the control panel comes along with 98.16 is ugly :) . I tried but found no driver version higher than 9x.xx could work correctly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlewfish Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Running a GeForce Go5200 64M here on a Dell Inspiron. I was using the stock Dell drivers before, but there's a bug in them that kept making this laptop crash constantly. It was infuriating. But I found this site, and after trying out a few drivers, I tried 96.89 and it works! No more crashes. I'm still wrestling with the full-screen video on the 2nd monitor issue. I'll have to try a few different versions (this is an Asus branded install -- who knows, they might have adjusted some of the settings for their particular setup?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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