Re: NVIDIA FX Go 5200 drivers
- From: "Paul Smith" <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:36:10 +0100
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1214768079_158114@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm well aware that the card in the laptop is not supported, but that
wasn't the point of the post.
Many people have found ways to get 5200's to work, and it's through
trial and error that they do it.
After months of "working" with my Toshiba M200 Tablet PC I gave up and got a Motion LE1700 (free of nVidia chipsets).
The Mrs got the M200, which she uses. But the best I could ever get it to run would still mean losing full-screen video, had to use hybrid sleep as the display wouldn't always wake up from regular sleep (which means it takes longer entering sleep as it suspends to the disk too). Aero would work for a while, but with only 32MB of RAM it would fall back to basic when the system was under load. And when running under the basic theme, scrolling pages with pen flicks would occasionally crash the driver.
Other than all that it "works", from memory the drivers I ended up using (after trying about 30 different versions) was the 97.something ones.
The laptop is about 2 years old, hardly TOO OLD, but it's another case
of how MS chooses to screw people with good systems in their effort to
get people to buy the next OS so that the next OS after that will have
enough hardware to run well - much like Windows ME did before XP.
I have to say that I completely, and utterly disagree with that. It's precisely that sort of attitude which allows the real culprits to constantly get away with this.
nVidia are solely the ones to blame on this, they're the ones who can't be bothered to write a driver, yet their competitors support products 2 or 3 years older. Worse still - nVidia actually went through all of 2006 saying they would support the 5xxx series, back in the Windows Vista beta we actually had video drivers from them. As I recall nVidia didn't change their position until February after Windows Vista was released, then they changed their website stating they wouldn't support the cards.
And that goes for the nForce 3 chipsets too, which I again got burned with. They went through all of 2006 saying they would support them, and again in February they change their website - which means I have to run my secondary machine with one of the CPUs cores disabled, otherwise I lose all hardware acceleration on the AGP port. Despite the fact that Via and SiS released drivers on a similar age systems which address similar issues on their machines.
You pointing your finger at Microsoft and blaming them is exactly why we keep getting screwed over. Just why the hell would Microsoft be motivated to stop people's video cards from working? Go talk to nVidia who are hoping to pick up some hardware sales.
--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
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