v77.70, v77.72, v77.74, v77.76, v77.77, v77.79 9X/ME, XP 32bit, XP 64bit | NV

[Bill]

Will the modded INF for the current driver work with the 64bit one?

Maybe with a tweak?

[Guest Xonticus]

Hello, I have an Nvidia Geforce Go 6600 for my pretty new laptop, and i installed the new drivers with the modified inf. everything works out fine, except, I cannot get battlefield 2 to run anymore! it used to run on my version 71 driver that came from manufacturer, but now it doesnt. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Guest Onizuka]

modified INF work with the international nvidia drivers version?

(thx for your work on the drivers!)

[JRd1st]

There's a 77.70 mobile driver at StationDrivers.

http://www.station-drivers.com/forum/viewt...php?p=5481#5481

[LSudlow]

Thanks! We'll get it up as soon as possible!

:)

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uploading 77.72 for XP64bit as i write this...

[Guest Guest]

Ok- I decided to retry the 77.72 drivers and they work really well with my Alienware- however if I roll back to say 71.89 (which by the way, does not work well) my computer goes haywire to the point I have to Uninstall the Nvidia Drivers from Add/Remove and start over from 62.20... then move up to 77.72 and there are no issues with it- except one. Far Cry. I can not play Far Cry with the 77.72 drivers- I called Ubisoft about it and they said that 77.72 is really 'flakey'! And on top of that Ubisoft does not support the Go cards to play with (to me this seems to be a crock)... just a heads up...

SaternKnight

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interesting that UBIsoft confirms what we see here for 77.72 from the comments of various guests and members.

Thanks for the info.

[Guest RickyRockFish]

Most issues outlined in this forum are also known issues with the authorized release... here are some details from the release notes on .72

I will bold some of the probs outlined in posts...

GeForce 6 Series

? GeForce 6800/6800GT/6800 Ultra, Windows XP, Windows XP

Professional x64: NVIDIA Overlay gamma controls under Standard

mode do not work properly, resulting in overly dark or overly bright

video.To work around this issue:

1 From the NVIDIA control panel, click the Color Correction menu tree

item.

2 From the Color Correction page, click the Apply color changes to list

arrow and select All, then click Restore Defaults.

3 Click Apply.

? GeForce 6 Series, Windows XP: Some animated characters in World

of Warcraft have black or missing textures.

? GeForce 6800 Ultra, Windows XP: Movies are choppy in Prince of

Persia Warrior Within. However, gameplay is not affected.

? GeForce 6800 Ultra, Windows XP: The wave splash particle effect in

the game Silent Hunter 3 does not render correctly.

? GeForce 6800, Windows XP: Colin McRae 5 demo crashes when

starting a new challenge with 4x antialiasing enabled.

? GeForce 6800: White flashing appears across the screen in the game

Joint Operations?Typhoon Rising.

? GeForce 6800: Shadow corruption occurs in the game Lineage II

(Lineage2).

? GeForce 6800/6600, Windows XP: Half-Life 2 does not render

properly when antialiasing is enabled from the NVIDIA control

panel.

? GeForce 6600 (128 MB): The game Hitman?Contracts refuses to start

with graphics options set to the maximum (1600x1200, 4x antialiasing,

16x anisotropic filtering).

? GeForce 6600, Windows XP: De-interlacing issue when playing The

Big Lobowski DVD.

? GeForce 6200 with TurboCache (16 MB), Windows XP: Everquest 2

crashes or hangs when run at 1600x1200.

NVI D I A C o r p o r a t i o n 9

Re l e a s e 7 5 V e r s i o n 7 7 . 7 2

? GeForce 6200 with TurboCache, Windows XP: Unreal Tournament

2004 has intermittent grayed-out screen with antialiasing enabled.

? GeForce 6200 with TurboCache, Windows Media Center 2005: When

switching DVD playback to full-screen mode, the screen turns blank

then the desktop corrupts when returning to windowed mode.

? GeForce 6200 with TurboCache (16MB): The system crashes when

resizing applications.

? GeForce 6200 with TurboCache (16MB), Windows XP Media Center

Edition 2005: Full-screen video mirroring is not supported.

GeForce FX Series

? GeForce FX series, Windows XP: In the game Halo, tank cannon

projectile trails fail to render and smoke clouds either fail to render or

flicker.

? GeForce FX 5950: Ultra Age of Mythology has screen flicker with

certain special effects.

? GeForce FX 5700/5600, Windows XP: Half-Life 2 does not render

properly when antialiasing is enabled from the NVIDIA control

panel.

? GeForce FX 5700/5600, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional x64:

NVIDIA Overlay gamma controls under Standard mode do not work

properly, resulting in overly dark or overly bright video.

To work around this issue:

1 From the NVIDIA control panel, click the Color Correction menu tree

item.

2 From the Color Correction page, click the Apply color changes to list

arrow and select All, then click Restore Defaults.

3 Click Apply.

? GeForce FX 5200: There is corruption in the Far Cry heads up

displays.

? GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, Windows Media Center Edition 2005, NVTV:

Live TV hangs when running in DualView mode with Video Mirror

enabled.

[Guest RickyRockFish]

Here are fixes that .72 fixed:

Single GPU Issues

? GeForce 6 Series: Stuttering occurs in different portions of the game

EverQuest2.

? GeForce 6800 Ultra, Windows XP: The opening videos are corrupted

in the game Silent Hunter 3.

? GeForce 6800: Slow performance in the game Star Wars Lego when

played at a resolution of 1600x12200.

? GeForce 6800 Ultra: Stuttering occurs in the game World of Warcraft.

? GeForce 6200 32MB with TurboCache, Windows XP Media Center

Edition 2005, HDTV: Setting HD modes, such as 720p or 1080i, does

not take effect until after you restart the computer.

? GeForce 6200 with TurboCache, Windows XP: The left side of Half

Life 2 is blacked out when 2x or 4x antialiasing is enabled.

? GeForce 6200: There is screen corruption when antialiasing is enabled

within 3DMark05.

? GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005,

NVTV: Live TV hangs the system when run in full screen mode.

? GeForce FX 5950: The game Ultra Battle for Middle-earth crashes to

the desktop with a Direct3D error.

? GeForce FX 5200: There is corruption on the water in the 3DMark05

Canyon Flight Game test.

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Thanks for that. This clears things up.

Need to add the release notes like i did for the other drivers when i have time.

[Guest One more from RickyRockFish]

for the person having application corruption.. I.E. the menu does not function right in the display driver tabs... also from the release notes:

If you perform a clean driver installation (no previous NVIDIA

drivers installed), you must reboot your computer. If you do not

reboot, the predefined application profiles will not be activated and

you may experience application stability problems.

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Also disable all virus protection apps during installation :)

http://www.nvidia.com/object/driver_installation_hints.html

[Guest DoDi]

Hi there,

I installed the 77.70 drivers on my new Toshiba M40 w/ Go 6600 GPU. I used the reccomended method and wiped clean all my old drivers before installing. The problem

I'm having is the same as the person above, where my Battlefield 2 will no longer work. It simply starts up, gives me a black screen right before the intro video is supposed to start, and drops me back to the desktop. I tried the overlay fix to no avail. My old drivers worked fine with BF 2.

Any more suggestions on what I could try? Or should I wait for the reccomended 77.72 drivers to hit with a mobile inf? Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thank you.

[Guest Guest]

The 77.72 drivers have worked well for me. I was suggest using the inf from this forum and install those.

[Guest DoDi]

Sorry I think I misunderstood, is there a mobile INF for 77.72 NON-64bit?

[Guest DoDi]

Errrr....nevermind I'm just blind

[Guest johnston21]

FX Go5200 32M (on a Toshiba). Currently running 67.66 with a modded nv4_disp.inf (AGP, Modes, Models stuff) & mode files.

The new 77.70 Go drivers (@ guru3d) do not have a nv4_disp.inf file but 2 other inf files, nvcv.inf for the 66 & 6800 series, and NVMT.INF for all others.

When I try to install using either the setup.exe or manually pointing to the NVMT.INF file (after having used a driver cleaner), I get a "hardware not listed" error. Ok, so I modded the NVMT.INF file to have the same Models from my 67.66 modded inf and I still get the same error.

Only thing I haven't done yet (because I want to try it all a 2'nd time) is to replace the 2 inf's with the 67.66 ver.

Also found that the 77.70Go's left a nview.dll file in the system32 folder which WinXP didn't like at OS start-up. Deleted the file and the start-up message is gone.

[LSudlow]

Ah! You have come to the right place. This is exactly why we are here. Download the correct inf file from the bottom of the first post in this thread, then install using the "have disk" mehod, which you'll find described here.

[Guest johnston21]

Ok, I got the inf for 77.70's. Will review it and further mod it as necessary (AGP, Modes re: Toshiba, Primary Monitor).

Correction to my post above, I tried using my 67.66 inf and it didn't recognise the hardware. Very wierd....

Will advise.

Update:

Using the 77.70 inf I further modded it: AGP to 1, Modes line re: Toshiba black bar, and the Primary Monitor mod. Installed no problems this time, yea. Note for my Toshiba, I also update the Modes.txt file.

The Power Mizer does "appear" to be functional for me.

Thanks all!!!

nv4_disp.inf

[Guest DoDi]

Well I tried the 77.72 driver, guru's 77.70 driver, all install fine and work with other games but no BF2...yet the OEM driver worked with it fine. I'm still open to suggestions if anyone has any.

Thank you.

[JRd1st]

There's an 80.40 driver out. You can get it at my site. :)

[Bill]

Nice one! :)

I'm going to test these ASAP on my desktop to see what is new/broken/fixed.

[Creative_ar]

Hey everyone...

I am wandering which drivers and .INF file will give me the best performance for my Dell INSPIRON 5150?

I am currently running the official 77.22 with the Larry's "Nv4_75_disp.INF" optimised for Dell Inspiron 5150 I found on LV2go...

[LSudlow]

67.66 is the fastest of the drivers in the past year or so. It's a very good driver but it's becoming a bit dated. 72.14 is the most recent driver that runs without problems. It's the version I'm currently using and works well with everything I've tried.