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Geek Culture / Which driver do you think is better?

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Fallout
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 14:18
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I had a few driver issues with my graphics card while I was playing a compo game the other day. I have the latest NVidia driver (I have the GV-3D1 (Gigabyte Dual CPU 6600GT). I checked the Gigabyte site and they have a driver specifically for my card, but it's from August 2005. What do you guys think would be more reliable? The gigabyte one specifically for my card but 9 months old, or the new NVidia one?

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spooky
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 15:16
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Manufacturers never update their graphics drivers.

Nvidia forceware is constantly updated, specially to cope with little bugs in latest games. I would go with nvidia one every time.

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 16:07
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if the gpu chip is an Nvidia, regardless of who assembled the card, go with the nvidia drivers.

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spooky
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Posted: 23rd May 2006 16:29
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The worst offenders are laptop manufacturers. I bought a laptop years and years ago with ATI Radeon 9000 graphics and they have never updated the driver on their website.

Now, any normal person would try and install the latest ATI Catalyst drivers off ATI website but they put code in the installation program to stop you installing it on any laptop. How pathetic. Easily got around by finding one of the setup mod tools (Patje) or omega modified drivers.

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Fallout
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Posted: 24th May 2006 00:51
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Thanks chaps. I'll leave the NVidia driver in place then.

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