How to install latest NVIDIA or AMD/ATI mobile drivers?
It’s sad that NVIDIA and AMD(ATI) does not let you install the latest drivers for your card. They had a policy regarding that the notebook manufacturer is supposed to give you updated drivers for you card.
The
true is that the manufacturers never kept heir drivers updated so well and with the current economical crisis and their layoffs I’m quite sure that this is one of the places where they will drop the workforce.
An now the solution:
- Download the drivers from NVIDIA or AMD (choose a driver for card from the same generation but not mobile – anyway they should let you download anything because they are all in the same installer)
- Try to install them. You’ll receive an error but now you have the drivers unpacked into C:\NVIDIA.
- Download NVIDIA Mobility Modder or AMD(ATI) Mobility Moder – a small application that does make some very small changes in the .INF files of the driver in order to be able to install them without the “OEM manufacturer error”
- Run the Mobility Modder on the C:\NVIDIA or C:\ATI folder in order to patch the INF files
- Now install the unpacked and patched drivers, using the installer from the folder above, and enjoy them.
You should know that:
- the patch does not make any binary change to the drivers
- it worked every time for me in the last 3 years.
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