Microsoft "releases" that which is supplied to them by the various hardware
manufacturers. That being said, you really should be getting your drivers
direct from the hardware manufacturers web site.

I have an Nvidia 6600. My graphics score is 3.9 with the default drivers
included with Vista. With the adding of any newer drivers, the graphics
score drops 1-2 tenth's of a point.

Nvidia's problem - not caused by the operating system.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"ChuckN" <Chuck@newmanArchitecture.com> wrote in message
news:A0F62289-C021-4273-BC1C-6FC078A0603D@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have the NVIDIA Graphics Card noted and have a graphics rating of 3.8
>When Microsoft released the updated driver, the graphics rating reduced to
>1.0
>
> 1. Why would a new driver degrade performance to that level.
> 2. Why would they release a driver that created that big of a problem?
>
> Is there a fix other than not installing that update?[/color]