That's good advice from Cal Bear.

I have a 6600GT and it rates a 4.9 Desktop, and 4.3 Gaming score with the
169.09 Drivers from NVidia.

Kurt

"Cal Bear '66" <xxx@xxx.org> wrote in message
news:07304B4A-DF44-433F-A5E6-55BE2FDFC544@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> NEVER allow Windows Update to install hardware drivers, especially
> graphics card drivers.
>
> Go to nVidia and download and install the latest drivers.
>
> [url]http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us[/url]
>
>
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "ChuckN" <Chuck@newmanArchitecture.com> wrote in message
> news:A0F62289-C021-4273-BC1C-6FC078A0603D@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>>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?
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>> Is there a fix other than not installing that update?[/color]
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