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Tapo

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« on: December 01, 2004, 09:19:23 pm »
From what I hear, nVidia is this really good new graphics driver (what exactly is a driver?). I think. Will it help run games like PS? and it\'s free to download, right? ANd is there a big difference from the version in this link and a beta version?

http://nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2004, 09:31:39 pm »
Drivers are what your hardware uses to interact with your system and ensure compatability with anything that requires the hardware\'s use.

You should always have the most up-to-date drivers for your hardware. Funny you should be talking about the new NVidia drivers, as I just this second finished installing them for myself. :D

BTW- if you don\'t have an NVidia graphics card, do not get NVidia\'s drivers! Common sense, I know, but...
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2004, 09:36:34 pm »
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Drivers are what your hardware uses to interact with your system and ensure compatability with anything that requires the hardware\'s use.

You should always have the most up-to-date drivers for your hardware. Funny you should be talking about the new NVidia drivers, as I just this second finished installing them for myself. :D

BTW- if you don\'t have an NVidia graphics card, do not get NVidia\'s drivers! Common sense, I know, but...


crap, i downloaded them last night, 1am, was tired. thanks for  the save moogie
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« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2004, 02:44:56 am »
whoo... I have an Nvidia Card!! i downloaded the drivers yesterday after a nice reformat :)
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« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2004, 05:16:35 am »
I would download the new drivers but it would break Sim City 4 (damn geforce 4mx).

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« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2004, 05:25:30 am »
Just a question.. why are nVidea drivers bad? ?(
Is it just that they suk or are there alot better ones that totally outclass nvidea?

*deletes nVidea drivers off hardrive*
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« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2004, 05:29:09 am »
I\'ve been doing some driver switching hoping to find a version that would make my card more stable.  I was hoping this official 67.03 release would help, but it looks like the leaked versions (67.20 and 67.42) are doing a better job.

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« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2004, 12:02:20 pm »
whats so bad about nvidia drivers? i have 66.93... and running no problems...I can play any game I got and it works just fine.. its ATI\'s official drivers that suck, get third party drivers for them :)
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« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2004, 04:56:03 pm »
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whats so bad about nvidia drivers? i have 66.93... and running no problems...
Well, it\'s likely that you and I have different GPU\'s.  Therefore the driver can work fine for you, and be very unstable for me.  Games like Farcry, UT2k4, and Morrowind crash randomly for me.  The fact that my card shares an IRQ # with on-board usb ports doesn\'t help either.  I\'ll probably end up disabling them in my bios...

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« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2004, 08:53:39 pm »
i got an Asylum Geforce 4Ti 4200 128MB .... probably is different... and my AGP has no conflicts... UT2k4 and Morrowind work fine, thank god, i dont know what i\'d do without them :) only problem I have is B&W TV output, but the source to that maybe the fact that it goes: S-Video->AV->Radio Waves->coax into my TV... wish I had a VERY long S-Video cord :p
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« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2004, 09:07:03 pm »
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Just a question.. why are nVidea drivers bad? ?(
Is it just that they suk or are there alot better ones that totally outclass nvidea?

*deletes nVidea drivers off hardrive*



:| Am I reading these posts correctly? Do people really download drivers because they think \'Nvidia ones work better than ATI ones\' or something (for example)? That\'s... really scary, you know...

Unless I\'ve been in the dark all this time... I was under the impression that you should only use drivers made for the use of a specific graphics card type/family/whatever. So NVidia drivers only work with GeForce cards, ATI drivers only work with Radeons, etc.

I thought it was as common knowledge as \"you can only play this game after you install it\"...

Am I confused? ?(
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« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2004, 10:24:28 pm »
C\'mon, moogie, nobody could be THAT stupid... Could they?
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« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2004, 10:58:29 pm »
I have been asked by someone to repair their computer because the \"coffee holder\" was broken.  Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.  Of course, that is stupidity, which can\'t be cured.

The driver thing may be ignorance, which is easily cured.  Like so:

Drivers are programs that allow your hardware to interact with your software.  You should always use a driver written for your particular make of hardware.  If you have a GeForce, use a driver written for GeForce.  There are often more than one driver written for a specific card, you should go with the most up to date one(usually) for best performance/stability.

As for the moron with the coffee stains in his cd burner.... I hope you die a painful coffee-electrical death!

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« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2004, 11:31:12 pm »
Who the hall puts coffe holders on thier computer!!! Thats totally abserd lol! What company made thier comp lol... starbucks?
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« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2004, 12:11:54 am »
nVidia are definatly the best company where drivers are concerned. Unfortunatly I?m stuck with ATI and their pieces of malformed code (ok,not that bad ;) ) but I?ll prob get a nVidia next unless ATI improve their support for linux soon.
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