So you have a laptop and the manufacturer has nothing to offer in the way of up-to-date video drivers, well here ya go. The two major video card manufacturers are NVIDIA and ATI and if you download the latest drivers from them you will most likely get a message saying there is no compatible hardware installed for their drivers. We turn now to MODIFIED drivers. there are several programmers out there that will take the original driver from ATI or NVIDIA and modify the driver giving it the ability to install on a laptop. So before we go any farther- DISCLAIMER: use these modified drivers at your own risk. I have installed modified drivers on some systems that did not like the new drivers and thus resulted in a safe-boot system restore. For example, DO NOT install on a Mac computer using Boot Camp! (can ya tell I've tried?) Having said that, this is what I recommend. First, those of you who are using older ATI Radeon video cards, you can usually find success installing Omega drivers from Omegadrivers.net. For ATI Radeon cards 9550 and below I suggest using the Omega drivers 6.5 and for the 9600 and higher the Omega Drivers 7.4. For those of you with NVIDIA video cards I would recommend LaptopVideo2go for the latest video drivers. Be sure to read the QuickStart Guide first so that you understand how to install the drivers.
I have used both of these websites and have had great success. These modified drivers can help keep your laptop relevant far beyond the updates provided by your laptop manufacturer. I encourage you to educate yourself before installing these drivers so that you understand how they are modified and why they work. Each of these sites has an excellent description of these details so I will not duplicate that information here.
For you Intel Graphics chip owners, try getting the latest from Intel directly. I have not yet located a modifier of Intel drivers.
If you have any additional questions shoot me an email.
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