installing drivers for graph card

[9mmheater]

is it worth installing new drivers for my graphics card??
do they do much? people have told me if it aint broke dont fix it is that true?

and when i install the new ones do i have to unistall the old one first??

[mrcabbie]

if it aint broke dont fix it TRUE

if its working ok your games work etc etc then keep your drivers as they are
and yes u do have to unistall the old drivers but some bits do get left behind if you do not know what you r doin this is where u get driver conflicts

hope it helps

[9mmheater]

i see i see
all of my games work bar one

prince of persia sands of time is really really laggy my comp is way above system requerments for the game
i have geforce 4 ti 4800 grap card

would drivers help this?

[TriForce190]

uhmmm..... that is not really true mrcabbie ya don't have to uninstall old drivers couse newer drivers will over ride ya older drivers
cheers m8 :)

[9mmheater]

but will it help
POP

[TriForce190]

newer drivers are there to fix bugs or laggie problems with the videocard so ya better install them for better perfomance

[9mmheater]

soo do you think i should install them ??

[TriForce190]

ow yeahh... better do so m8 :)

[9mmheater]

so i just run the file and thats it? i havn't done it before

[TriForce190]

nothing will happen bad with ya computer

[TriForce190]

yep just run the .exe file and install is running automaticly only press OK button under install

[9mmheater]

hmmm i think i might download the old ones incase the new bunch are bad ? or do something not so fun ? or are they on my cds?

[TriForce190]

what kind of gp card do ya have??

[9mmheater]

geforce 4 ti 4800

[TriForce190]

only ya grap card cd has the drivers for it
so don't worry bout it m8

[9mmheater]

ight ight thanks man

[TriForce190]

np m8 intall the drivers and ya will play all ya games better in high resolution
good luck with m8

[NorthViking]

It's often best to have the latest drivers. It's always some fixes to improve.

Try and if it get's worse then just revert back to previous version.

[mrcabbie]

uhmmm..... that is not really true mrcabbie ya don't have to uninstall old drivers couse newer drivers will over ride ya older drivers
cheers m8 :)

in my opinion its best to remove drivers from control panel add remove nvidia


43.45 are the fastest geforce 3/4 Ti.. but this is mostly because they have brilinear filtering on the "quality setting" where as application controlled forces full trilinear. This is much better though because it's hard to notice the difference and the latest drivers are pretty bad performing (looks like nvidia made sacrifices in performance overall for other cards just to make the FX series better). Other 4x.xx drivers do not use brilinear filtering on the "quality" setting (same as setting application controlled in 43.45) and on "performance" they use full bilinear...

So the 43.45 are the best, at a cost of a bit of image quality but the gains much out-do the IQ difference that you have to squint and compare screenshots to notice for the most part.

if you want the latest drivers for nvidia go here

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_56.72
hope it helps :sup: