topic Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series in PCs & Accessories

Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

clash-city-rocker — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:37:57 GMT

Well so far, Sony Vaio UK support have failed to support my new laptop, and it's failure to run Half Life 2 game. (it bluescreens with the latest provided drivers, and Sony are not going to produce anything newer).

Because Sony cannot support their own hardware, I took the task upon myself.

I have a working (for me), 81.85 driver set, based on the NVidia mobile reference drivers. I can now play Half Life 2 on my FS-29XP laptop without issue, and other games run at better framerates than before. As it's a proper designed mobile GPU driver, not a hacked desktop driver, it should be safer to run. (but no guarentees, anyone using this driver does so at their own risk).

Anyway, enough waffle, you can download the 25MB ZIP here:

http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3204125

On my system, I had to add a custom resolution, but I have since added the 1280x800 resolution to the default supported resolution list, so that should now be OK (but untested).

Any comments or bugs welcome, and I will try to update the INF to fix any remaining issues. email me:

vaiouksupportsucks@markgillespie.co.uk

The driver is for FS series laptops, with Nvidia Geforce GO 6200 GPU.

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

clash-city-rocker — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:17:24 GMT

Well 3 people have downloaded it. Any feedback? Did it work for you?

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

seb21__ — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:59:16 GMT

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Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

seb21__ — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:00:09 GMT

hmmm, I hope you know what you do. LOL

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

nodron — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:55:04 GMT

Well 3 people have downloaded it.  Any feedback?  Did it work for you?

Hi I downloaded it yesterday, and I'm impressed. My Vaio FS115S could run games but would have difficulties running the in game movies etc.....

I installed this and it worked great!!!!!!

Has anybody reported any bugs yet????

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

clash-city-rocker — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:06:19 GMT

There are problems with it running on batteries, with screen blanking, will look at the power management settings, see if I can sort this part out.

That's the only problem I know. It's fixed all my other problems.

I just wish Sony made the effort to do this with SUPPORTED official drivers, rather than ignoring their users.

NOTE: If these drivers fix any issues that are present in the latest official Sony Nvidia drivers, please raise a support ticket with Sony. The only way we are going to get updated drivers out of Sony, is if enough people raise support tickets about the issues with the current driver set (which is destined to be the final set, unless we can convince Sony that they are not good enough).

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

MaSteR — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:52:14 GMT

Hey all. I play HL2 and am a HL (and its mods) person. It is possible to play HL2 and other source games by simply starting the game windowed and then making the game full screen in game (or leave windowed)

This can be done by adding this to your launch options.

-console -window

This can be found by opening steam, right clicking the source game you wish to play, clicking properties, clicking set launch options and typing the above. This has worked fine for me and I havent updated my Nvidia drivers. Desktop Short cuts to these games may not work but can easilly be remade.

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

clash-city-rocker — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:12:39 GMT

Newer driver here: (81.87), http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=1978023

May behave better on batteries, as I used some of the settings from the Sony driver INF.

Comments welcome... Even better, would be for Sony to produce a offical driver..

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

seb21__ — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:25:18 GMT

I just wish Sony made the effort to do this with SUPPORTED official drivers, rather than ignoring their users.

Well, I am one of the ignored user.:smileyrolling_eyes:

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

clash-city-rocker — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:02:13 GMT

How do you install the new driver?  There is no setup installation with it!!!!!

Same way as the Sony driver, use Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, click on the Display Adapters, then NVidia 6200 GO, click Update Driver, then Install From A Specific Location, and point it to the files extracted from the ZIP.

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

nodron — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:13:32 GMT

How do you install the new driver? There is no setup installation with it!!!!!

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

Enigmatic — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:37:47 GMT

Does your driver support the GO6400 GPU at all ?

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

clash-city-rocker — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:20:48 GMT

I don't think so, you can try, Windows will refuse to install it if it's not suitable.

It's more than likely just a case of adding the PCI vendor and device ID into the inf file. If you open up Device Manager, look at your graphic card Properties, "Details" tab, you should see the numbers you need,

Something like this:

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5960&SUBSYS_1051196D&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&48

replace the ones in the inf with your numbers, and it should take the drivers without any problems.

Usual disclaimers apply, that I am not responsible if you break anything, kill anyone, set fire to your house etc...

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

krige — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:36:24 GMT

I'm using ForceWare 82.04 on my laptop, downloaded from
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=10

I improved my 3DMark 2005 score of 120 points compared to the one obtained with the drivers provided by Sony.

Re: Nvidia 81.85 driver for FS series

AliClifton — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:21:03 GMT

Im using the current sony driver and it seems to work ok when playing bf2.

Cant u just use Nvidia's own forceware drivers as it says on their site that their drivers work 'for all Nvidia gpus'

edit:wait ignore that im an idiot