Please help me find the best driver for my graphics card.

[chiwanese]

A month ago, I posted on TaleWorlds that the graphics of my M&B are all messed up. Everyone said I should get the newest driver. I spent hours then to find a driver, got one that wasn't much newer than the one I had, or simply failed. I really don't know.

I have a Toshiba 1955-s803 laptop that comes with GeForce4 Go 440 (as shown in device manager). A lot of newest driver packages from nVidia 77.70 etc doesn't recognize my card. In fact, I think all nVidia ForceWares don't recognize my card. After trying again to install new drivers, I always had to use the official, the only, driver I found on Toshiba's website, version 31.10, after uninstall the old driver and fail to install any of the forceware. 31.10 is about aug~oct, 2002.

Please please help me find a driver. I really enjoyed this game before on my old laptop, which crashed two months ago.

 

[compfreak]

Nvidia says that they don't provide drivers for it. 'Contact the notebook manufacturer'.

 

[chiwanese]

Are you saying that to play this game, I need to have Toshiba write a driver just so that I can play it?

I really don't know how it works and what my rights are. This laptop isn't under warranty anymore. Is it Toshiba's responsiblity when the game doesn work? Can someone teach me how to phrase my request so that it compells Toshiba to write a new driver?

Thanks.

 

[compfreak]

I don't mean contact them, because there would likely be no point. I quoted their site. When one site says contact another, it means check their website and pray you find what you want. Beyond that, there is essentialy no hope.

 

[chiwanese]

Finally ... I ran into this readme file for one of the ForceWare version which gave me "enlightenment." I took a risk of ruining my computer entirely by forcing the installment of the geforece4 go 440 driver from one of the newest ForceWare packages. What I did is instead of letting windows search from the directory that I specificed, I went on and select the type of driver I want to install, and hit "have disk", found the inf file, scroll through the list of adaptors, and picked Geforece4 go 440 64 (the appropriate one, but there were 3 exact same choices!).

*Prayyy

glad that it worked and it seems that my M&B is fine just 1 min ago. At least I see the text ...

Thanks ... I hope the forum master can tell others this option AT THEIR OWN RISK.

 

[Archonsod]

You might want to install a temperature monitor if you haven't already got one on your laptop. Portable cards are designed to run at a lower temperature and voltage than their desktop counterparts.
If its detected itself as a Go card it shouldn't cause a problem, but better safe than a welded motherboard...

 

[chiwanese]

Wow ... never knew such thing. But Thank you!

However, what kind of software should I get? What keywords can I google with? The motherboard embedded GeForce is within nForce or can they be separate?

Please help. Thanks!!!

 

[MjD]

Hi chiwanese, could you give some more specific instructions as to how you got the appropriate graphics driver from the nVidia forceware package?

I think I have a similar problem with my GeForce 488 Go card - I can load up Mount & Blade fine and make a character but when I start playing I can move around in the town for 10-30 seconds and then the progam just exits back to the desktop.

When I try updating may graphics driver with the most recent Forceware package it says that my card isn't support supported (or words to that effect). I managed to find a beta version of forceware (version 6 point something) which upgraded the graphics driver to a 2004 version but the only improvement that has brought is allowing me to walk around and enter the fighting arena for about 10sec before crashing.

I played Mount & Blade at my brother's for the first time yesterday and was hooked but really frustrated by not being able to play myself. Does anyone know if the problem I've described is fixable or will possible be sorted by further versions of M&B??

Thanks for your help!

 

[chiwanese]

MjD, sure. Basically, for any official ForceWare from nVidia's website, you can click on a link to get a list of supported cards. Even though your card is listed, the software itself will say no supported card is found and quits the installation. To "force install" the driver, this is what I did,

Through whatever means (say, device manager), I arrive at the window where u can install the driver (reinstall, upgrade, whatever), u want to specify a device (usually you have it automatically search, or manually choose a driver for this unknown device. But in this case, you are telling the computer what device you are installing.). At some point, when choosing company and driver, you can click on "Have Disk". Now, find the directiory where you extracted the most recent nVidia ForceWare and u should find a *inf* (I think) file that basically enlists the supported graphics card. Choose the right one, install.

 

[chiwanese]

Also, both MjD and I would need a monitoring program. Anyone has any idea what to get and how, pleaseeee? And thanks!