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I'm rocking a sony vgn-nr32s/s laptop with an nvidia 8400m gt grapics card (hardware ID = PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0426&SUBSYS_902D104D&REV_A1). It sucks, but I can play Source games on it and can't afford a new one at the moment. I bought Portal 2 on it like a week ago, and all was good for a day
Went out for the day, came home, and one of my housemates got a virus on here. **** got real.
I finally got rid of it, but I couldnt load up portal for some reason. Everytime I'd boot it up it would automatically close, with no warnings or errors. I tried reinstalling the game, reinstalling steam, verifying game files, defragging my hdd, spyware scans, virus scans, etc, no avail.
Eventually I reformatted, and moved from vista to windows 7 64 bit. all went fine, but when i booted up it says my graphics card is "standard vga graphics adapter" in dxdiag. I run the windows experience index and everything performs fine except my graphics card, which is 1.0/10.
Reformatted again and tried Windows 7 32 bit, still the same issue.
After a bit of googling, it seems to be quite a common problem where sony have modified their drivers so windows doesnt know what the **** kind of graphics card i have, so i used the nvidia mobilitymodder to fix it.
However, i run it with the forceware drivers on driverheaven, and it basically says this at the end:
http://i.imgur.com/kCaHc.png
And then i run it with the nvidia mobility drivers and get this:
http://i.imgur.com/5iKBN.png
So nothing is changing, and it still thinks my graphics card is "standard vga graphics adapter".
Any help is very appreciated, as I'm pretty **** with computers and I'm currently relying purely on Google and common sense, and it doesn't seem to be getting me very far.
Went out for the day, came home, and one of my housemates got a virus on here. **** got real.
I finally got rid of it, but I couldnt load up portal for some reason. Everytime I'd boot it up it would automatically close, with no warnings or errors. I tried reinstalling the game, reinstalling steam, verifying game files, defragging my hdd, spyware scans, virus scans, etc, no avail.
Eventually I reformatted, and moved from vista to windows 7 64 bit. all went fine, but when i booted up it says my graphics card is "standard vga graphics adapter" in dxdiag. I run the windows experience index and everything performs fine except my graphics card, which is 1.0/10.
Reformatted again and tried Windows 7 32 bit, still the same issue.
After a bit of googling, it seems to be quite a common problem where sony have modified their drivers so windows doesnt know what the **** kind of graphics card i have, so i used the nvidia mobilitymodder to fix it.
However, i run it with the forceware drivers on driverheaven, and it basically says this at the end:
http://i.imgur.com/kCaHc.png
And then i run it with the nvidia mobility drivers and get this:
http://i.imgur.com/5iKBN.png
So nothing is changing, and it still thinks my graphics card is "standard vga graphics adapter".
Any help is very appreciated, as I'm pretty **** with computers and I'm currently relying purely on Google and common sense, and it doesn't seem to be getting me very far.
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