Gma 945 Modded Driver
Up til now I’ve been using the standard Intel driver for years but decided to try yours. It installed correctly and seemed to work well at first but soon I noticed problems.
Sans Frontier driver won't display 16:9 aspect ratios, it appears to be a common problem with modded drivers. That's the first mobile version of the gma 945.
I had my laptop (Acer 5570z w/ GMA 950) set to extended desktop display mode, 1280×800 on laptop and 1680×1050 for external display. Just after installing the Sherry driver I was still able to use these settings, but then I put my laptop to sleep, and when I powered it on again the external display was using the wrong resolution, and when I tried to put it back to 1680×1050 the monitor gave me the message “out of range”.
Also when I tried to clone display at 1280×768, laptop display was correct but external had very large black borders at the top and bottom. Both of these things did not happen with standard Intel driver. Also, the Vista Experience index for gaming went from 2.6 to 2.2 with Sherry driver. So I did a system restore to before I installed the driver and everything is working correctly now.
I appreciate that you put your time into this and release the driver at no charge, but I would not recommend this driver to anyone. I’m not trying to be rude, just wanted to provide you and other people reading with feedback. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’ve been trying for 3 hours to get this to work on my acer aspire one d250 to no avail.
I even tried disabling the original driver which seemed to endlessly reinstall itself as well unless I did an update driver for it from the device manager. I had uninstalled all other software and drivers beforehand. Here is what happens I restart my computer and then the screen just keeps blinking with black, loading part of the taskbar and background and then black screen again and I can’t even really move the mouse and it keeps on dissapearing when everything else does.
I’m certain I downloaded the right 1.3 driver for win7 32bit. What else do I need to do because right now I have completely given up hope of getting this dang thing to install on this netbook! And one quick check to intel’s site to try to see if I could find anything showed that I didn’t have the chipset drivers installed although I specifically remember running it when I downgraded from 8 and back to 7. The update utility on the site showed that I didn’t have any version installed for some reason; p Would that have been my problem with getting this darn driver to function right and why I would have the issues I did? I’m a whee bummed out right now about wasting so much time when that mmay have been the problem, so hoping for a possible somewhat of an answer before putting any more time into this since it’s driving me nuts x.x That’s the ONLY thing I’ve found that seemed outta place so far x.x. Thanks for your work, it extends the usefullness of older computers, especially laptops, which is good for the environment. I use Windows XP, 7 and Apple Mac OS X 7.3 on a Toshiba Portege M400 tablet laptop.
I installed your driver for Windows 7 and, so far, it works. The Mac also has drivers (kext) for the GMA945/950 but, in OS X the gpu is limited to 64 MB of memory although, according to your work with the Windows 7 drivers, the GMA945/950 is capable of using much more memory. Would you be interested in doing the same for the OS X 10.7.3 drivers (kext files)? As well, the GMA945/950 will not be able to be used with OS X 10. Might And Magic 8 Full Version. 8 which is a shame because it could except that Apple won’t provide the drivers but the drivers and framebuffers from previous versions of OS X should be able to be modified to work with OS X 10.8 as has been done with previous versions of OS X (For example, OS X 10.5 and 10.6 drivers and framebuffers modified to work with OS X 10.7). Thanks again for what you’ve done.