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Blot Brickworks
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Join date: 28 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,076
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10-30-2008 07:51
Just a question that I keep seeing and don't understand,People are always being told to update their video drivers if they have a problem.Fine, I would like to know ,how often do they go out of date?......or..How often do they bring out new ones? Which amounts to the same thing.Should we check on a regular basis or work on the principle ,"If it ain't broke don;t fix it."
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Brenda Connolly
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Join date: 10 Jan 2007
Posts: 25,000
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10-30-2008 08:08
From: Blot Brickworks Just a question that I keep seeing and don't understand,People are always being told to update their video drivers if they have a problem.Fine, I would like to know ,how often do they go out of date?......or..How often do they bring out new ones? Which amounts to the same thing.Should we check on a regular basis or work on the principle ,"If it ain't broke don;t fix it." I'm using the OEM drivers that came with this computer when I bought it back in 2004. . When Windlight arrived I tried updating them in a vain attempt to get it to work, as I have an outdated video card. It didn't help, the card just won't run windlight, so I rolled back the drivers, and run a non WL viewer and everything is fine. |
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Kathy Morellet
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Join date: 26 Jul 2006
Posts: 809
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10-30-2008 08:17
Some people always like to be on the bleeding edge and some don't.
Like all software these days, there is a constant flow of bug fixes in the video drivers. But, if your system is working ok and there isn't something telling you that you need driver X in order to use software feature Y, then it probably isn't necessary to update.
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Cherry Czervik
Came To Her Senses
Join date: 18 Feb 2006
Posts: 3,680
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10-30-2008 08:40
My PC's graphics card is a rebadged Radeon. It's anyone's guess what the correct drivers are. The last lot I tried, based on Radeon's advice, makes for meltdown. Spose it's time to upgrade the PC but then only SL is affected and I have better things to spend my money on.
Hope you get your drivers updated ok!
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Ann Launay
Neko-licious™
Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 7,893
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10-30-2008 08:54
Well, definitely don't update them past the 175 series if you use nVidia unless you want to have fun texture issues.
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Milla Janick
Empress Of The Universe
Join date: 2 Jan 2008
Posts: 3,075
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10-30-2008 09:00
I'll try to run the latest version of the video driver that doesn't have issues with SL. I don't run to update when a new driver comes out, but I don't let them go forever, either.
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Tali Rosca
Plywood Whisperer
Join date: 6 Feb 2007
Posts: 767
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10-30-2008 09:44
With new graphics cards, the drivers do tend to get better and better, in ways which actually helps performance (as well as possibly fix bugs; typically glitches in specific games).
Once your card becomes a generation or two old, things tend to have stabilized, and you don't usually get much, if anything out of it.
(And as has been mentioned, currently you *do not* want the latest nVidia drivers, or you'll be hit by the "palettized textures" issue.)
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