Thread: The bills

I think SD had a better chance with Marty then with turner

I am just curious if anyone has updated to the 186.18 nVidia driver that was released on July 2nd, and if they have experienced any problems with it.

I am personally of the opinion that unless you are having issues, you should leave well enough alone, and I am not going to be upgrading my drivers at this point since my stuff has been working just fine.

Is anyone having any problems with it?

Thanks

I'm not trying to be contrary here Iggy, but I don't agree with your statement. Updating drivers is a necessary evil and one that often offers performance increases. This is particularly true with newer cards, as they often benefit from the drivers the most.

I've seen cases where a new driver can offer 30% performance increase on several occasions. You should always keep your drivers up to date IMHO. I'm not as good at it as I should be, but I try to keep them up to date so that I can gain any performance increases they provide and have the best support for my graphics card.

I have rarely seen a final release driver that caused problems with any of my games. Even if it does cause a problem, it's not hard to reinstall the old drivers.

Just my 2 pennies

Originally Posted by tonster

I'm not trying to be contrary here Iggy, but I don't agree with your statement. Updating drivers is a necessary evil and one that often offers performance increases. This is particularly true with newer cards, as they often benefit from the drivers the most.

I've seen cases where a new driver can offer 30% performance increase on several occasions. You should always keep your drivers up to date IMHO. I'm not as good at it as I should be, but I try to keep them up to date so that I can gain any performance increases they provide and have the best support for my graphics card.

I have rarely seen a final release driver that caused problems with any of my games. Even if it does cause a problem, it's not hard to reinstall the old drivers.

Just my 2 pennies

I understand your viewpoint. I have just had too many instances over the years where updating my system turned out to be a bad thing. In the case of the nVidia driver, L4D evidently had some bug issues with the 182 driver. The 186 may very well have eliminated those problems, but I just prefer to leave sleeping dogs lie.

That's why there are 6 billion of us....so we can all have a different idea

I'll try installing them on my machine this week and let you know.
Tony

Installing now, I know little about drivers, but I haven't ever noticed any improvements when I have updated mine.

EDIT: I think there was a slight improvement actually, or atleast I did the best I have ever done on counterstrike after I installed it, probably just me though *<.