Comments on: NVIDIA Posts Newer Windows 7 Graphics Card Drivers Online http://www.technews.biz/nvidia-posts-newer-windows-7-graphics-card-drivers-online-662/ Complete coverage of gadget news, reviews, and complete consumer electronics coverage. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Christopher Price http://www.technews.biz/nvidia-posts-newer-windows-7-graphics-card-drivers-online-662/comment-page-1/#comment-943 Christopher Price Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:39:33 +0000 http://www.technews.biz/?p=662#comment-943 For some reason, these beta drivers do not have the full range of mobile driver support that other 180-series ForceWare drivers feature. It could be that this is temporary, but I hope that NVIDIA does not fall back on their <a href="http://www.christopherprice.net/nvidia-expands-mobile-driver-support-802.html" rel="nofollow">recent commitment</a> to expand ForceWare drivers for notebooks. For example, my MacBook Pro (Early 2008) with a GeForce 8600M is not supported by the latest Windows 7 drivers from NVIDIA. However, in Vista, there is a mobile driver branch of the same driver version available for Vista and XP. Those work fine on the same MacBook Pro, sans any modifications. For some reason, these beta drivers do not have the full range of mobile driver support that other 180-series ForceWare drivers feature. It could be that this is temporary, but I hope that NVIDIA does not fall back on their recent commitment to expand ForceWare drivers for notebooks.

For example, my MacBook Pro (Early 2008) with a GeForce 8600M is not supported by the latest Windows 7 drivers from NVIDIA. However, in Vista, there is a mobile driver branch of the same driver version available for Vista and XP. Those work fine on the same MacBook Pro, sans any modifications.

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