What do these driver thingys do?

[Hylander_1314]

TF, I'm just getting the standard 169 WHQL certified drivers, which is not what I think you are asking about. Could you do a cut and paste?

Or is it the PhysX thing you have come across?

If it is the PhysX thing, it's supposed to help boost your graphics power, but the software, ie, games have to be written with code that takes advantage of it.

From what I understand, it also lets you use two different series video cards like a 9000 series and an 8000 series in combination and utilize them to their best efficiency.

[Task Force]

I was wondering what the driver did, didnt realize how old it was though. Thanks for your time fellas. Im trying to find a good driver that gives SH4 better performance and I was wondering about this one. Im currently useing the 180.48 drivers. Im trying to get the best performance out of this thing I can.

[CaptainHaplo]

What card are you using? The 180.48 seem to be the last whql out for the 8/9 series. There may be a few beta's out there, but your probably going to get better performance thru tweaks.

If your running an 8/9 series card, your probably not maxing out the card depending on the specs of the rest of the machine. I note you have been selecting the 32 bit drivers - if you can get your hands on a 64 version of vista - ultimate preferred - your more than likely going to see a boost in performance. *This assumes you have a 64 bit processor. On average benchmarks - your looking at 15%.

[Task Force]

Im running a 8800 GTs 640mb.

I have a e8400 3.0 ghz that supports 64bit. I wonder how long untill windows 7 is gona be out.

[Hylander_1314]

Some say late o9, others say early 2010.

[Task Force]

I hope soon, I dont know which to get, Vista 64 bit, or windows 7.

[Hylander_1314]

Wulfhunter originally posted this link. You may want to read it as it really dispells a lot of "urban legend" and predjudices against Vista that even I didn't know.

http://www.tweakguides.com/VA_1.html

Read the entire article as it is quite illuminating as to the false pretenses many folks have about the OS. And it looks like folks that hold on to XP until Windows 7 comes out are going to be in the same position I was in when I waited until XP got sorted out before dumping Windows 98se. And once I did switch, it took the better part of a month to get used to XP as it was completely different from what I was used to.

So I would suggest from the article to upgrade, and then when Windows 7 gets sorted out, the transition won't be so difficult. It's the wise thing to do, but I have done my share of unwise things in the past.