Hi guys, I got mine a few weeks ago and the first to thing I did was to test this baby out with some games.

Thought I share some findings about this machine;

1) Ran 2 games so far --> C&C Kane & GTA San Andreas.

    No problems with C&C but can't run GTA SA EVEN after I've installed the right nvidia driver from that china web site. I think reason could be this
    card is really meant for Vista not so much for XP and I am running it on XP Pro.

    Solution? Install driver NVIDIA GeForce 6100 instead. Why 6100? Cause I tried many others which worked but will crash your PC after playing for
    a while so I'll save you guys out there some time. Also the plus from using this driver for the card is that the performance has improved~!?
    Somehow I think acer release the correct driver for this machine to run on XP but prolly did a half cooked job cause when I ran with the correct
    driver even on C&C the performance sucks, everything seems to slow down.

2) The problem with the keyboard lag is not happening to me but the keys needs a bit more pressure when pressed else you'll miss a few characters.

So far no problems with this machine been playing games for the pass 24 hrs no crashing or problems whatsoever. I like this baby --> boots up fast and a real value for money.

Share your thoughts with me.

Cheers,

Bobby

walao...i read through this forum...like this lappy so many problem la....

HI bobby! Do you have the site where we can download NVIDIA GeForce 6100?  Will it run on xp home?

There you go, http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_162.18.html

I think it should run on XP Home, haven't tried it mine is on XP Pro.

Cheers~!

Bobby

thanks a lot bobby!  I actually tried to load it but it did not work.  The forceware 165.01 is working though and remains to be the best driver for my machine so far.

I've been installing a few packages, I'm not sure but driver GeForce 6100 could be from the same 165.01 package. Select don't search when updating this driver and choose the driver to install from list; then pick 6100 from the list. Kinduf like forcing driver 6100 on your computer. Ignore the warning saying this driver may not be suitable for you pc, blah blah...

The forceware 165.01 you are currently using (which would install GeForce 7000M by default), have you tried running GTA SA? Cos it didn't work on my pc when i used it and performance were poor. But running with GeForce 6100 worked splendidly.

It'll be good if you could give it a try to confirm this issue and save our brothers and sisters here valuable time testing it. But remember you need to force the installation, by default it would not install driver GeForce 6100 on your acer lappy.

Cheers.

Hi guys i bought the Acer Aspire 4520 a week ago.
the specs r

Amd Athlon 64 x2 tk-53
1GB RAM
160 GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

all for 33.5k(India)

it came with linux but i deleted that and installed xp sp2

Guys i have downloaded the bluetooth driver and it works like a charm. also can u tell me how do i check if there are drivers to be downloaded for the devices installed?  before installin the bluetooth driver , in the device manager it wasn't shown 'driver missin for bluetooth', infact bluetooth wasn't shown...so i didn't know if i had to install the drivers. so like these how do i fid out if i need to install divers for the devices that r in ma lappy??

also which are the latest games tht can be played on this 7000M?(i don't intend to do gaming but just wanna know).

also wat is the max RAM that i can put in this lappy

also tell me if i have to enable anything in this lappy.
thanks in advance

Hi bobby!  tried the GeForce 6100 using the method you recommended and it worked also.  I do not have GTA SA on my laptop but tried NBA Live 07 on it.  As against 7000m, no observable difference.  If the 6100 works for some games and the 700m does not, I guess it is worth keeping the 6100.  thanks a lot bobby!

Ok thanks for the update~!

Yeah, you're right it might worth keeping 6100 if it works for some games and 7000M does not. Let me compile the list so far;

1) C&C Kane --> noticable performance improvement when using 6100 driver.
2) GTA SA --> can't run with 7000M, use 6100 instead.
3) NBA Live 2007 ---> no noticable improvement when using 6100 driver, but runs just the same.

Any gamers out there using this lappy, kindly update this list for convenience of others.
Cheers~!

Bobby

Nice, interesting discovery there  ...I guess the 7000m is basically the same chipset as the 6100 series then...i'm gonna go try and test on more games to see if there's improvement or not.

BTW, after using the 6100 drivers, has it affected the startup time/shutdown time of the laptop?  Because have tried using the latest forceware drivers on it but the performance for startup and shutdown was slower by a few seconds (I mean, it was noticably slower than before).

I notice it too, but I found the reason wasn't because of the display driver (6100 or 7000M) but it was because I didn't uninstall the previous versions of the CIR drivers as well as the atheros wireless driver. Check your add & remove programs make sure that you don't have 2 installed versions of CIR or the atheros wireless application drivers.

Hope it helps. After removing those redundant drivers, my pc startup as fast as it used to.
Cheers~!

Oh, but anyway I checked the lappy and the old drivers were already removed. 

Anyway which 6100 driver did you use for it because there's a list of 6100 drivers in the inf file:-
Geforce 6100
Geforce 6100 nForce 400
Geforce 6100 nForce 405
Geforce 6100 nForce 420

Hi guys i bought the Acer Aspire 4520 a week ago.
the specs r

Amd Athlon 64 x2 tk-53
1GB RAM
160 GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

all for 33.5k(India)

it came with linux but i deleted that and installed xp sp2

Guys i have downloaded the bluetooth driver and it works like a charm. also can u tell me how do i check if there are drivers to be downloaded for the devices installed?  before installin the bluetooth driver , in the device manager it wasn't shown 'driver missin for bluetooth', infact bluetooth wasn't shown...so i didn't know if i had to install the drivers. so like these how do i fid out if i need to install divers for the devices that r in ma lappy??

also which are the latest games tht can be played on this 7000M?(i don't intend to do gaming but just wanna know).

also wat is the max RAM that i can put in this lappy

also tell me if i have to enable anything in this lappy.
thanks in advance

Hi guys i bought the Acer Aspire 4520 a week ago.
the specs r

Amd Athlon 64 x2 tk-53
1GB RAM
160 GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

all for 33.5k(India)

Guys i have downloaded the bluetooth driver and it works like a charm. also can u tell me how do i check if there are drivers to be downloaded for the devices installed?  before installin the bluetooth driver , in the device manager it wasn't shown 'driver missin for bluetooth', infact bluetooth wasn't shown...so i didn't know if i had to install the drivers. so like these how do i fid out if i need to install divers for the devices that r in ma lappy??

Aiyoooo, hahahaha.
Ok, I think basically the drivers you need to install is found here;

http://www.acer.com.cn/driver/check_whole....4520&path=WinXP

It was shared by a member earlier, just check earlier threads.

Pay attention to the wireless driver --> use atheros & web cam is suyin, and if you read my thread earlier you will notice some issues with the graphic drivers as well.
Cheers.

Oh, but anyway I checked the lappy and the old drivers were already removed. 

Anyway which 6100 driver did you use for it because there's a list of 6100 drivers in the inf file:-
Geforce 6100
Geforce 6100 nForce 400
Geforce 6100 nForce 405
Geforce 6100 nForce 420