mobilenvidia Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 VISTA has no control panel with the LDDM drivers. So I tried to install the normal XP drivers and found these worked with Vista and gave a Control panel just like in XP, but then there was no glass effect. From here I worked on an INF that would work with Vista and XP, after some testing and tweaking I think I have it sorted. Basically you need to find a XP driver you like, then grab the Vista driver of choice. Now here is what you do: 1) Download and Extract the Forceware drivers somewhere. 2) Download and Extract the LDDM drivers into same directory where you put the Forceware drivers from step 1 3) Delete these 2 INFs from the directory above with both drivers combined, nv_DM.inf and nv_LH.inf 4) Now download and put the special Vista/XP INF in the directory with both drivers, which you can find here Vista/XP 32bit INF - Vista/XP 64bit INF 5) Depending on the original Forceware driver you used you may also have to delete another INF. The Vista/XP INF is called nv4_disp.inf (nVidia default) if the driver has an OEM INF you may need to remove this INF also to just leave nv4_disp.inf. 6) Now you can install the driver, this will need to be done via control panel update driver method in the system properties, under display. Once installed reboot and you'll have a fully working driver with a control panel. NOW, I'm unable to test this myself, but if someone could test this for me, there is a small chance that the Aero glass effect might work also. Probably not likely as I had to enable the XP display driver nv4_disp.dll, not the Vista one nvd3dum.sys But one never know as nvlddmkm.sys Vista's only other system file does get installed. A useful side affect for me is that this Vista/XP INF also works with Windows XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Great detective work, Pieter! :) To add a bit to the knowledge base: nvd3dum.sys == Nvidia D3D User Mode nvd3dumx.dll == Nvidia D3D 64bit extensions ? nvd3dkm.sys == Nvidia D3D Kernel Mode Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRd1st Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 I followed your procedure above with 81.98. It installed just fine on my XP Pro System, but I see absolutely nothing to indicate that anything's different. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted January 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Nor can I, it probably won't do diddly squat in XP, but this does allow for a control panel in Vista. I'd doubt that Aero effects will ever work in XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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