NVIDIA to replace dated GeForce 6/7/8 WHQL drivers Next Week


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Wow, people are complaining like it's the most necessary thing in the world. The current ones work just fine. New drivers aren't going to change your experience THAT significantly.

No they don't least not on my Card.

I've tried the last WHQL certified driver and the beta's and the last one I tried they STILL haven't fixed resume from sleep on my 7800GT.

From a normal boot the card works fine but if i put the pc to sleep once I wake it back up the fan will get stuck on 100% and it's highly likely I will suffer from artifacting.

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but the drivers I have now work fine, getting the framerates I would expect from my 7600 GS.

At least yours works. :) I went through 5 7600 GS cards from PNY before they finally replaced it with an 8600 GT. Apparently the 7600 GS doesn't like my Intel D965LT board. *shrug*

As for the drivers, I haven't noticed any problems with the old ones but new ones are fine by me, too.

Won't they need to build the hardware into the GPU's first?

They are porting the microcode to run on the GPU. The Ageia silicon is no more...

What's the point of consistently meeting a monthly release schedule when they're is no real reason to update the drivers that often. It makes sense to release an update when there is something worth adding, after it has been tested - rather than just rolling out minor, buggy updates each month just to meet the schedule.

The thing is though, there are things that need to be updated and fixed, ESPECIALLY since Service Pack 1 for Vista came out. On top of that, there are plenty of things that plain just don't work for some people. This is an example of my situation: nVidia Control Panel - Video Card Fans. If you are one with no issues with your drivers than lucky you, but many people do have issues.

Edited by lord_xenos

175.16 is still far behind the 175.63's I am using on a 7800GS (from what I remember 175.16s caused a lot of issues, are they serious in trying to get them certified?)

These "new" drivers better fix the stuttering issues on geforce 8's in various games on xp or i'm not going to be happy. Knowing nvidia and their lack of driver competence though... it probably wont be.

Number/naming conventions, 175.16 is older than 175.63

No they are actually newer, it goes by the build date AND build number.

The 175.16 have newer files than the 175.63, therefore they were compiled later.

Most companies have multiple versions being worked on at any one time.

Look at ATi for instance, they release a monthly driver which is 1 month old by the time we get it, they are already working on the next 2 sets of drivers.

When they release hotfix's they have the same version number as the official monthly tag, but are from the new driver series branch.

Now my head hurts.

I've given up on updating my nVidia drivers just for fixes for specific games I don't even own. Every time I update, my color settings get messed up and for some reason the settings/values I used before will look totally different after the update.

Same thing happens to my system. I don't update Drivers either. However I install new drivers with fresh windows installed and they work fine.

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