Importance of updating video drivers?
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Importance of updating video drivers?
Re: Importance of updating video drivers?
Staying up to date is no problem,BUT
Another old saying is "If it aint broke don't fix it"
"Bob Fliegel" <BobFliegel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:96C73322-915F-4720-85E9-31566C90037F@microsoft.com...
> My display driver is an NVIDIA GeForce 2. Every once in a while I'll visit NVIDIA's site to see if a new driver has been issued and, if it has, I'll install it. How important/useful is it to keep updating the display driver or, for that matter, any driver? I have never noticed a difference in performance after making such an upgrade, though I realize that many such improvements are invisible. Still, one wonders whether it's worth taking the trouble to stay on the leading edge just for the sake of doing so!
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Re: Importance of updating video drivers?
Squire's post is right...IF you are not a hardcore gamer who is trying tosqueeze every last frame per second, and your current drivers are stable and
you are happy with them, then why upgrade? On a video card that is as "old"
as yours, there's not many new tricks it can be taught to do anyway.
Bobby
"Bob Fliegel" <BobFliegel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96C73322-915F-4720-85E9-31566C90037F@microsoft.com...
> My display driver is an NVIDIA GeForce 2. Every once in a while I'll visit
> NVIDIA's site to see if a new driver has been issued and, if it has, I'll
> install it. How important/useful is it to keep updating the display driver
> or, for that matter, any driver? I have never noticed a difference in
> performance after making such an upgrade, though I realize that many such
> improvements are invisible. Still, one wonders whether it's worth taking
> the trouble to stay on the leading edge just for the sake of doing so!
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Re: Importance of updating video drivers?
Bob Fliegel wrote:> My display driver is an NVIDIA GeForce 2. Every once in a while I'll"Staying on the leading edge"?! How can you say that with a straight face -
> visit NVIDIA's site to see if a new driver has been issued and, if it
> has, I'll install it. How important/useful is it to keep updating the
> display driver or, for that matter, any driver? I have never noticed
> a difference in performance after making such an upgrade, though I
> realize that many such improvements are invisible. Still, one wonders
> whether it's worth taking the trouble to stay on the leading edge
> just for the sake of doing so!
you're running a card which has been superseded 4 or 5 times! ;o)
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