For a variety of reasons, I have purchased an HP Entertainment notebook. It's a pretty beefy machine... C2D, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia 8800 GTS w/ 512 MB, Wireless ABG & N, and so forth... and I am very pleased with the notebook (it was only $1549!)

However, there is one glaring problem I am experiencing and I imagine it's something a mobile gamer has to get used to... LOUSY GPU DRIVERS. You gotta be kidding me! All I've got is version 1.00? HP?!?

Why are notebook/laptop manufacturers responsible for the drivers where-as the desktop manufacturers just send their customers to Nvidia/ATI for updated drivers? I'm just not clear on why I'm stuck using outdated drivers on my notebook.

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi m8,
I too have had Gaming Laptops, both Dell XPS, and suffered from outdated drivers that the manufacturer would not update. Really bad considering these both cost me £2000 at the time of purchasing.

I had tried many things but non worked apart from Driveragent...

I tried this program that scans your computer and finds updated drivers from their database. Low and behold there were updated drivers for my laptop...

Unfortunatly this did cost to subscribe, about $30 i think, but to me this was not a problem as I wanted to play Bioshock, and my drivers were crashing.

I got a few updated drivers from this website so it was worth every penny.

Give it a try as it is free to scan for updated drivers, you only have to purchase before you download. If they are there then your on a winner m8...

Im sure that other people have other ways also so good luck to ya!