laptop optimization help

[ewakio]

Hello

So, I got this brand-spanking new laptop with a bunch of cool stuff inside, only to be disappointed because BF2 does not support most of the features. Anyways, I'll outline the problems.

First off, I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with the following specs:
-Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
-17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen XGA+ Display
-1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm
-100GB Hard Drive
-256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

Ok, first problem. I think Half Life 2 has the option of changing the proportions to 16:9 to cope with widescreen monitors like mine, but BF2 does not, or at least none that I saw. Is there a third party program that can help me with this? Or can I change the config files or something to get it to work? Also, the maximum resolution that I can select from the list is 1024x768, and in-game on something like this really sucks, there are jaggies everywhere.

Second problem. I have a shadow problem that could probably be fixed by the nvidia driver, but since I have a GeForce 6800 Go (please note the "Go" part), the drivers doesn't seem to want to install. It says: "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit." Is there a third-party program that could fix this? Is NVIDIA working on solving this problem? And... should I e-mail them about it? I doubt that I'd get a reply.

Thanks in advance, hopefully you guys can help me out.

[ptegan]

Have you tried a search in the forums for the word 'widesceen' ?

Go to www.nvidia.com and get the latest drivers from there, not the ones on the BF2 disk.

[ewakio]

Have you tried a search in the forums for the word 'widesceen' ?

Go to www.nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com) and get the latest drivers from there, not the ones on the BF2 disk.

Ok, thanks for the advice on the widescreen aspect. But I went to the nvidia website, downloaded the 77.77 drivers, but those don't work either. I was thinking of getting the beta drivers, but I don't know if that's necessarily a good choice. Does Nvidia have an email address? Their support menu is a little confusing, and I don't know where the serial number and all that other stuff that they need are. Thanks!

[Gunny Highway]

Often regular drivers won't support their mobile cards, but modded drivers often add the feature, e.g. take a look at zer0point drivers from the driverhaven community:
http://www.dhzeropoint.net/ they add support for mobile cards. I'm sure there are other modded drivers for nvidia that do the same.

[ewakio]

Well, it seems like that site doesn't like me, as they are refusing to let me download the file. Do you know of any other sites?

[Gunny Highway]

http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/ should have mirrors for most drivers, here is for zer0point drivers:
http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/zeropoint.htm

[ewakio]

I installed the 0.7189 drivers (they were described as for the mobile cards like the 6800 go) from DHzeropoint, but it still doesn't work. Should I try the other drivers from that site?