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I recently switched to Windows 7 Ultimate with problems

Aug 24, 2010 10:11AM PDT

I recently switched to Windows 7 Ultimate and been having some problems.I can not play some games i used to be able to play for example Rome Total War and Mount and Blade:Warband.I never checked my graphics card before i installed it because i am not really smart into computers but i did some looking and found the graphic card on windows 7 ultimate i checked what my laptop graphic card would have and it would of been GEforece 150 i even have nvidia graphics stickers but my current one is Standard VGA Graphics Adapter and i really want to continue playing my old games if you need more information i will be gladly to give it.

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From the info provided
Aug 24, 2010 8:21PM PDT

It would seem that the driver for the graphics card are not installed.
"Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" is probably a generic that Windows installed. Go to the Nvidia site: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
See if the auto search function under Option 2 can find what is needed. Also look in device manager to see if other devices are missing the needed drivers. Windows sometimes cannot find the appropriate drivers on its own.

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I have tried
Aug 25, 2010 10:15AM PDT

I used both graphic driver and motherboards driver the graphic driver had: Standard VGA Graphics Adapter 16.38 The manufacturer of this system requires that you download the driver for your GPU from their support site.

The GeForce M series and GeForce Go series notebook GPUs use drivers that have been customized by the notebook manufacturers to support hot key functions, power management functions, lid close and suspend/resume behavior. NVIDIA has worked with some notebook manufacturers to provide notebook-specific driver updates, however, most notebook driver updates must come from the notebook manufacturer. Additionally, the desktop GeForce graphics drivers will not install on Geforce M series and Quadro M series notebook GPU's.

While the motherboard driver option had: nForce 560 / nForce 520 -- HDMI Audio Driver 1.00.0.59
Version: 10.0059 WHQL
Release Date: October 1, 2009
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The motherboard drivers option had a download button also which i clicked which said during the download that it chouldnt find the hardware supported for the driver or something like that.Thanks for giving a try.