I am running this board on an Inspiron 6400 with 2 gig of memory and getting a Windows Experience Score of 2.7 for Graphics, which I think is very poor. I also don't see a better driver on the Dell site. The machine is brand new with Vista installed by Dell.
I have an Inspiron E1505 with an Nvidia Geforce 7300 Go on Windows Vista Home Premium, and I am getting a 3.0 for gaming performance and a 3.6 for windows areo. I am using the drivers on dell's site, but they are old, 1/19/2007, and they don't work at all with OpenGL software. The other site that was suggested here is quirky and hard to follow, and plus I would prefer if I could get the drivers from a more reputable source, I.E. Nvidia or Dell. Does anyone know when Dell is going to have an updated driver for download, because I really need the OpenGL support.
I am running this with a 2 core processor and 4 gigs of RAM. It runs very poorly for a "vista" graphics card. According to Windows comments on the scores, 3.0 is the minnium to run most of Vista's features. If you play Neverwinter Nights 2 you'll have to disable most of the features. If you play Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, night games are basically out of the question. I am very disappointed with this card.
I spent 4 hours on the phone with Dell and they couldn't get it to run any faster. I actually went from a 3.1 to a 3.0. This has to be the worst 256meg video card you can get in a laptop.
I was able to pick up an ATI X1400. It's not amazing but it is faster and your windows scores should go up.
Another thing I will try some day is running it one a 64 bit version of Vista. If you are going to try this, buy a seperate hard drive or partition your current hard drive. 64 bit has too many hardware issues not to.
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