sn0wl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 You may have noticed that as LaptopVideo2Go, we are trying to bring you ALL nVidia drivers released. However this is not an easy task and has much greater costs such as hosting prices and our personal time spent on delivering best possible quality with packing and making modified INFs. We are relying on ads that are displayed on main page and forum. Thank all of who are contributing and checking our site often to get new drivers but our recent statistics show that only 28% of people come back again to download a recent driver within a week after installing one. Unfortunately this is not enough for us because we cannot get enough money to keep this site running if you just download a driver and never come back again. As administration, we decided to add an expiration date to solve this issue. From now on each modified driver will come with an expiration date as you can see here from 171.37 INF; [Version] Signature = "$Windows NT$" Provider = %NVIDIA% ClassGUID = {4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Class = Display CatalogFile = NV_DISP.CAT DriverVer = 03/19/2008, 6.14.11.7137 ExpireDate = 04/02/2008 So what will happen after expiration date is over? Simple: your driver will be uninstalled automatically and you will be enforced to visit the site and get a new driver or a new INF file. We are sorry but we had to take this precation to ensure your regular visits. We are still discussing the expiration time but currently it will be 2 weeks. Depending on your feedback we can alter the time later on. Thank you for your understanding and sorry for any inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fat AND Stupid Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 I'm going to be the first to say this and hope it's true but April fools :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetigerx7 Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 snOwl, as much as I agree with the decision we need funding... this is a horrible idea to pass onto our users. BIG TIME! As a Super Member I have to file an official protest against this action. I, for one, know that we need a consolidated INF for many system, but if we need user activity we need to break apart the consolidated INF and start doing OEM supplemental INFs divided out into set teams. You guys already have me doing HP/Compaq/VoodooPC work. Maybe we need other teams doing stuff for Dell, Toshiba, Alienware, and other teams to get people to download less of the universal INF but to download more of team releases of drivers and not just INFs. I, for one, would like to upload an entire set of drivers rather than just an INF because I am constantly being questioned by my users because they are having INF issues. maybe getting teams doing driver releases and testing would be a better idea. More teams mean more downloads.\ Setting INFs to have a ticking time bomb is NOT something we want to push on our users. I won't have it in my INF and I would have expected better from you guys never to do such an action! And BTW we did actually discuss this a month ago and I and several others were totally against it. This is no April Fools joke. The joke was supposed to be ATI was shutting us down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Ah yes, the first of April is always a funny day. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetigerx7 Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 What part of The joke was supposed to be ATI was shutting us down. did you not read? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fat AND Stupid Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Relax INF files can be opened in a text editor and you can change the data to a different year. Worst scenario we'll all just goto a different website and this site will get no viewers and the owner here will have to go back to hooking on the streets :) . But I still call April fools on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F3nNec Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 pwnd! :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Heh, the way nvidia has been releasing drivers I'm guessing most people don't even keep a driver for more than a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tb77 Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 there is no way of automatic driver deinstallation under vista with uac. you need admin rights for that! btw. you would need a daemon running on the system to do that - killing it, would fix this "problem" - so, it is a joke... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 lol, nice one guys, you had me going for a sec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salahtron Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 :) Good Joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantasia Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 You had me going on for a while! Nice one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 I also bought it for a few seconds lol. Theres one really good reason that wouldn't work though anyways. Firefox Adblock Plus. Most of us don't see advertisements anyways :) especially when using the EasyList one http://easylist.adblockplus.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 I fell for this, good April Fools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverLord Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 The joke was supposed to be ATI was shutting us down. Why would ATI wanna shut you down, more like NVIDIA :) And yea... you had me there for a sec tbh, before I too remembered you can tweak if urself =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Damn!! First April Fools joke to get me!! Good one guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEngland Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 I just about crapped my pants. GJ guys. i got owned lol... Seriously i spent like 20 minutes trying to find a good steady driver to try to keep... then i think... maybe i should actually READ the post... lawl.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 It better be a joke. Otherwise, farewell LV2Go! I know I am not alone when I say I check this website at least once a day already to see of any new drivers popping out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darmdorf Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Setting INFs to have a ticking time bomb is NOT something we want to push on our users.I won't have it in my INF and I would have expected better from you guys never to do such an action! And BTW we did actually discuss this a month ago and I and several others were totally against it. This is no April Fools joke. The joke was supposed to be ATI was shutting us down. Sorry to say this to all our forum members & guests, but whitetigerx7 and I just weren't able to stem the tide -- the forces of evil seem to have invaded our homeland and robbed our management of their wits! If you want to help us save LV2Go as we know it, give us a little support in the matter. This is your site for the web's fastest Nvidia information, and we need every vote we can drum up. Speak up!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TA2DF Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 "Everyone has a dream, but somebodies eat cream!.." :P Good and brilliant :) joke. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quietly Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Check the sound ... :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 We are being serious, everything these days has exipry dates on it. Why not drivers? Laptopvideo2go.com becomes like a fridge full of fresh drivers, you take them home they expire (like milk and bread) Then you come back here and grab some more fresh drivers. We've spoken with nVidia and they are all for it. 174 Drivers are white bread drivers 173 Drivers are wheatmeal drivers 171 are multigrain drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 and we are counsumers, we appreciate there is expiry date for products. but we like to fast freeze them for longer use too :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adolfotregosa Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 i don't get it ! :S if we go to the inf and just remove that line... i really really understand your point of doing this but undoing it will be very very easy !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0wl Posted April 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 So is adding support for your graphics card to INF but you still download pre-modded INF from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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