New official driver release 162.18.So what?

[danielj]

I know that now the 160 series official driver was released to Geforce 6/7/8 under Windows XP.But the fixes seem irrelevant to me...I don??t have bluray or HD-DVD disk,don??t have a dual core CPU and almost NONE important fix was mentioned to Geforce 7600 GT.So is it worth a while have ALWAYS the newest driver?Or only you are sure that the perfomance will be better?I also would like to know why EVERYBODY says to be updated to the newest driver,even if all programs work very well
What??s the use for this?
The only thing I know is the support to Open GL 2.1.Does it change anithing within Celestia?

[Boux]

Bah, the answer is pretty obvious.
People who are looking for performance, quality and stability will try many driver sets until their favorite software will run without a glitch on their particular hardware.
I try most of them, official or leaked after reading the best specialized forums.
Many want perfect HD video rendering and others want their preferred game to run smoothly with all settings maxed out without artifacts.
I am currently running the 165.01 set on XP. They are keepers for me because they happen to support decently most of the apps I throw at them both qualitatively (quality of rendering and stability) and quantitatively (fps).
Celestia is not a very demanding application with no challenging rendering needs. Any set will do the job.
If you want to do HD video processing or run the latest game at high fps with all the bells and whistles switched on, that's another story. Besides solid drivers, you will need horsepower.

[t00fri]

I know that now the 160 series official driver was released to Geforce 6/7/8 under Windows XP.But the fixes seem irrelevant to me...

Didn't we address this subject plenty of times already??? Daniel, please understand that NVIDIA's new driver development is NOT affected by your personal concerns! Use whatever works best for you, basta.

Bye Fridger

[danielj]

Sorry,I was misunderstood.The fixes were irrelevant for ME and for people that have a 7600 GT.I??m sure that is relevant for many people.But the fact is that only would like to know is if despite the lack of fixes,updating a new driver is always a good thing or not.And I also would like to know if Celestia is using Open GL 2.1 for new shaders,for exemple.
And answering Fightspit,you are DEADLY wrong.Some rendering like Mars 3D and very high resolution of probes and spaceships are very demanding in terms of GPU processing.For example,the biggest model of HST is too cumbersome for my system...

I know that now the 160 series official driver was released to Geforce 6/7/8 under Windows XP.But the fixes seem irrelevant to me...

Didn't we address this subject plenty of times already??? Daniel, please understand that NVIDIA's new driver development is NOT affected by your personal concerns! Use whatever works best for you, basta.

Bye Fridger

[John Van Vliet]

for people like me with an OLD card ( mx 400)
i just rebuild the same driver
(Legacy GPU version (1.0-96xx series)) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9639-pkg1.run
when ever i get a new kernel