Solved How to install video driver for NVIDIA RTX up to 3090 ti (laptop ver!)

[SevoosMinecraft]

Disclaimer: I'm happy to help people survive on Windows 7, but I'm not responsible for any damage that following instructions can cause. However, I tested it myself and have not run into any problems. By following my instructions, you must understand that the result might be unpredictable in your case. Thank you for understanding, let's begin.

Hello, everyone! So, what's the issue?

You can easily download and install Windows 7 drivers of NVIDIA graphics cards (up to 3090 ti, 40 series and above are not supported). However, only with their regular (desktop) versions, not laptop ("notebook"). So, how can you install the driver?

1. Get your device id. Go to Device Manager, find Standard VGA Adapter, select properties -> Details -> Hardware ID. You need to take the longest text value of all the present ones.
2. Download a Windows 7 driver for the regular version of you graphics card from nvidia.com. In my case its version is 473.81, higher version may not work for some reason. However, it doesn't really matter because the latest Game Ready release is from 2021, so gaming experience isn't going to change.
3. Unpack the installer using 7-Zip, go to the Display.Driver folder and open nvaci.inf. Then, find this line:

[NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1]

and replace Device ID in the following line (keep "Section001, ") with the line you copied from Device Manager earlier, so you have something like this:

%NVIDIA_DEV.1341.0867.1025% = Section001, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1F15&SUBSYS_3A4717AA&REV_A1

Now you need to save the file and run setup.exe from the unpacked folder. Windows'll likely ask you if you really want to install that driver, you need to approve that.

It actually works! Seems like drivers for different versions (desktop and laptop) of a graphics card are practically the same. By the way, you can also edit 6.2 and 6.3 sections to make it compatible with Windows 8 and 8.1 respectively.

I really hope my tutorial was useful, good luck!

 

[darksonny]

Disclaimer: I'm happy to help people survive on Windows 7, but I'm not responsible for any damage that following instructions can cause. However, I tested it myself and have not run into any problems. By following my instructions, you must understand that the result might be unpredictable in your case. Thank you for understanding, let's begin.

Hello, everyone! So, what's the issue?

You can easily download and install Windows 7 drivers of NVIDIA graphics cards (up to 3090 ti, 40 series and above are not supported). However, only with their regular (desktop) versions, not laptop ("notebook"). So, how can you install the driver?

1. Get your device id. Go to Device Manager, find Standard VGA Adapter, select properties -> Details -> Hardware ID. You need to take the longest text value of all the present ones.
2. Download a Windows 7 driver for the regular version of you graphics card from nvidia.com. In my case its version is 473.81, higher version may not work for some reason. However, it doesn't really matter because the latest Game Ready release is from 2021, so gaming experience isn't going to change.
3. Unpack the installer using 7-Zip, go to the Display.Driver folder and open nvaci.inf. Then, find this line:

[NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1]

and replace Device ID in the following line (keep "Section001, ") with the line you copied from Device Manager earlier, so you have something like this:

%NVIDIA_DEV.1341.0867.1025% = Section001, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1F15&SUBSYS_3A4717AA&REV_A1

Now you need to save the file and run setup.exe from the unpacked folder. Windows'll likely ask you if you really want to install that driver, you need to approve that.

It actually works! Seems like drivers for different versions (desktop and laptop) of a graphics card are practically the same. By the way, you can also edit 6.2 and 6.3 sections to make it compatible with Windows 8 and 8.1 respectively.

I really hope my tutorial was useful, good luck!

Interesting, i was thinking to buy a rtx 4000 but i read isn't compatible with win 7. Does this guide work for rtx4000 card under win 7?

 

[SevoosMinecraft]

Interesting, i was thinking to buy a rtx 4000 but i read isn't compatible with win 7. Does this guide work for rtx4000 card under win 7?

No, 40 series isn't going to work at all

 

[darksonny]

No, 40 series isn't going to work at all

I hate win 10 win 11 even I dont want to try it. Every time I did update via WU my windows got screwed and more if the windows is customized with menu start/skin pack. Ill have to search at ebay any single-slot card under rtx 4000 any suggestion to make win 7 to work with this trick?