Warning to laptop users

[LochnarITB]

What kind of laptop and video card do you have?
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It is a VPR Matrix, former(?) house brand for Best Buy. When I was looking, they were getting very good reviews. Although I love this machine, I have run into a couple problems that proved that support was pretty much non-existent. The card is an nVidia GeForce4 420 Go 32M.

May I suggest Omega Drivers?

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

They usually work great.
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Thanks. I took a look and I might give them a try if I get brave. Right now, all seems good with the driver I have installed. I am a little leery of trying another driver though. I have been able to install other drivers but I could never get the native resolution (1280x854) to work. Without having access to the native resolution, a very beautiful display turns very ugly. For example, when I play D2, I play windowed. Doing so not only gives me immediate access to the desktop but greatly improves the graphics because they are at the proper resolution.

I got this driver to work by finding a forum on the net that dealt with VPR Matrix. Other people were having the same problem. The way it was solved was to find another manufacturer that also made a wide screen laptop with GeForce4 cards. They made it sound like the driver actually had to be modified to allow for the odd resolution and then I had to modify the .inf file to get that resolution displayed. The Omega Drivers page says that they didn't change the actual driver, they just tweaked what was already there. They do say that there are added resolutions but that could mean that they have been added to the .inf file to access what is already in the reference driver. I will have to give it a try some time, as they are more current than what I have. But, I would hate to mess things up right now when they seem to work for what I need. (although I am getting that "oooh newer better gotta have it" urge <_< )