Drivers for NVidia GeForce Go 6150

[Varmint260]

Hey, guys! How's it going?

I'm back after finally getting a notebook of my own, and I know that some will scoff at my buying one with a GeForce Go 6150 in it, but I have done some thinking lately and for my own reasons I decided it would do. I'm not unhappy with its performance in H2Vista.

However, I have made repeated efforts to download Vista drivers for this card (I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit) and every time I go to the NVidia website and download the graphics card drivers for 6 series cards on Windows Vista 32-bit, I have a problem. I download the drivers and try to install them, and without fail I get one of two messages. The first is that the setup did not detect any hardware compatible with the drivers (I know it's a 6150, I know it's Vista 32-bit!) or I get a message that I'm not running Vista 32-bit. In either case, it tells me "The setup will now terminate." Maybe I have downloaded the wrong drivers, or maybe it's something more sinister. Can anyone help me?

EDIT: Sorry, guys! I didn't read on the NVidia page that the drivers are not for GeForce Go mobile GPUs. I'll see if HP has anything.

[legionaire45]

What Northbridge chipset is your lappy using? Sometimes they'll integrate the graphics driver with the chipset driver. It's worth a shot =P.

[Varmint260]

Sorry about that; it turns out that NVidia is not supplying drivers for their own Mobile GPUs for Vista. I had to go to HP's website to download the drivers, and they boosted my performance quite a lot.

For anyone who has problems getting drivers for an NVidia Mobile GPU (GeForce Go) for Vista, they want you to go to the website of your computer's manufacturer.

[Mr Buckshot]

why did you do that! My neighbor just ordered a $799 notebook from newegg and it had a Geforce Go 7600 in it...what a pity!

still, the 6150 is not too bad. It's the best IGP, and if it can hit 30 fps in Doom 3 at 640x480 on medium, that's an achievement.

[legionaire45]

why did you do that! My neighbor just ordered a $799 notebook from newegg and it had a Geforce Go 7600 in it...what a pity!

still, the 6150 is not too bad. It's the best IGP, and if it can hit 30 fps in Doom 3 at 640x480 on medium, that's an achievement.
Hell, at a local retailer known for overcharging for most newer notebooks/stuffs I found a $1200 HP/Toshiba (forgot which) laptop with a 2.0ghz C2D, 8700 M, 2 gigs of ram and 240 gigs of HDD space (120gb x 2). The price was after a couple of rebates but I caught onto the deal too late though, otherwise I would have picked one up.

[Mr Buckshot]

My laptop is an older model so it was considered cheap for its time (2.13Ghz Intel Pentium M 770, 1 GB DDR2, Geforce Go 6600, all for $1600 USD, plus a 7200rpm 80 GB hard drive).

Pity...now many superior notebooks cost under $1500, and they even have dual core CPUs (when I bought my notebook, Intel Core (2) Duo did not exist yet).

[et_cg]

Laptop/Mobile video cards have never been supported by the video card manufacturers. The companies in charge of supplying drivers for the mobile chipsets/laptop video cards are the laptop manufacturers themselves.

[Mr Buckshot]

That's funny, the Nvidia official drivers work with my Geforce Go 6600...

[Varmint260]

Okay, it's just mine, then. Anyways, I know that one can get a better deal when ordering online, but I did not have that luxury, and we need not go into why. I'm happy with how this thing is running H2Vista, and that's all that matters.

[Mr Buckshot]

I don't think ATI/Nvidia offer much support for integrated video cards. I know someone had a Radeon Xpress 200 and the Catalyst drivers didn't work on it because it wasn't supported.