Windows Vista RC1 Drivers For NVIDIA Graphics Cards
Today I installed Windows Vista RC1 on an old Dell laptop, a Latitude D800. I know RC2 is available, but I wanted to see how the mobile side of things has changed between versions...
Well this particular laptop has an NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go graphics card and on install only a generic VGA driver was available.
So I popped over to the main NVIDIA website to see if there was a beta driver I could use and found there was not... oh dear. No AERO for me on that laptop then!
They do however have a Windows Vista RC1 driver download for a bunch of their more modern graphics cards. On inspection of the supporting documentation it showed a list of supported cards.
Am I to assume therefore that this will be the final list of legacy cards that NVIDIA will support in Windows Vista when it finaly ships? I think that is a safe bet.
Here is the list:
• NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2
• NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS / GT / GTX
• NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS / GT / GTX / GTX 512
• NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT / GS
• NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE
• NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS / LE / GT / SE
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT / GS / LE / XT/ XE
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800
• NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL
• NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT / LE / VE
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600
• NVIDIA GeForce 6500
• NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE
• NVIDIA GeForce 6200 w/TurboCacheTM
• NVIDIA GeForce 6200SE w/TurboCacheTM
• NVIDIA GeForce 6200
• NVIDIA GeForce 6150
• NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE
• NVIDIA GeForce 6100
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900/GeForce PCX 5900
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900ZT / 5900XT
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 / 5800 Ultra
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra/GeForce PCX 5750
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE / 5700VE
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600XT / 5600SE
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 / 5200 Ultra
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200/GeForce PCX 5300
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200LE
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 / Quadro FX 4400
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 / Quadro FX 4000 SDI
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 / Quadro FX 1300
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 700
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 600
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 350
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 330
• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210s
Here is the driver download page: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp look under "start here" select Graphics and go from there.
Regards
Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP