Toshiba Portege G900 Video Driver

As it is known, Toshiba Portege G900 uses NVidia GoForce 5500 graphical accelerator, which allows to Experience true, fluid digital TV, console-class 3D gaming, high-fidelity surround sound, smooth DVD-quality video playback, and sharp, vivid photos all with longer battery life for more hours of entertainment, as it is told at NVidia website.

But when it comes from the paper to the real life we can see, that the lack of GoForce 5500 hardware driver support on the Toshiba Portege G900 is obvious.

Let us look at the features of the chip and the problems we face.

Video playback. As weve been told, GoForce 5500 gives smooth DVD-quality video playback, but the benchmark used on CorePlayer 1.1.3 gives about 75\% overall result while playing an *.avi file with 640*480 resolution.
Please note, that normal results are above 100\%
Remark: during the test was used Direct Draw acceleration with YV12 overlay.

3D gaming. Games like Call Of Duty, which can use hardware acceleration simply do not work on the device.

Sound. Many users report that the phone speaker is too quiet and audio quality is too poor.

Camera performance. The camera also works terribly. Despite the horrible white balance, sometimes it slows down so that it takes a few seconds between pressing the shutter button and photo capture.

Battery life. Although it does not depend only on the video chip, the lifetime of the device is very poor, partially because the processor works with the display instead of the GoForce chip.

There are many Portege G900 owners experiencing the same problems. The issues with video rendering, 3D gaming, sound, camera performance and battery life on the device seem to be a direct result of poorly coded GoForce 5500 driver.

If Toshiba Corporation is unable or unwilling to resolve this issue, we ask NVidia Corp. to prove a full fledge SDK release so that device owners or CoreCodec, Inc will be able to make their own driver software.

Thank You.