Can someone please explain this? Graphic driver

[thumper]

i keep hearing that to make my MBP run game awesome i have to
download the drive from:

LaptopVideo2Go

can someone explain this too me, what it is and if its good or bad?
i dont want to kill my nice new machine

thank you

 

[ghall]

I've never even heard of that, sounds sketchy. Most, if not all games should run just fine on a MBP.

Edit: I checked it out and it looks like a Windows thing. The MBP has sufficient graphics power to run most modern games so I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[clevin]

do you run game in windows?

 

[Freyqq]

that site has every graphics driver version ever released for nvidia cards

some are better for certain cards..but it is a lot of trial and error to find the best one for your computer

apple selected one of these drivers and put it up on their site as the best driver to use. Note: this is not the one that comes default with leopard

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306891

this driver brought my 3dmark05 scores from 7100 to 7600 with no overclocking necessary

 

[djinn]

The drivers are usually modified (inf) drivers and are right out testing. Sometimes the drivers are in beta still. Just becareful with the drivers because sometimes it can overheat your graphics card or cause issues with performance.

 

[thumper]

oh sorry guys, its for gaming on windows xp. bootcamp

i think its suppose to be a better driver or something

 

[djinn]

There are a couple of them that do modded drivers. I believe guru3d.com has drivers etc... There are always driver wars on other forums. Windows users don't play nice in the sandbox apparently.

 

[diamond.g]

Modified INF's exist for mobile computers because nvidia and amd don't usually create drivers for notebooks. It is due to the differences in how some manufacturers use the chips gotten from the two GPU makers. The GPU makers actually prefer you get the drivers from the manufacturer of the notebook.

Places like laptopvideo2go or omegadrivers take the desktop drivers and mod the INF so that the drivers will install for the mobile versions. Sometimes using the desktop drivers will have you lose the advanced powersaving features. So you may want to be careful.