One other thing:

He should be SURE to UNINSTALL (in Device Manager -- including CHECKING the box
to "Delete driver files in the Uninstall confirmation box) his present nVidia
drivers, reboot and then install the downloaded new drivers.


I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!


"Kurt Herman" <scapino@nwlink.com> wrote in message
news:%23iPvQbCOIHA.292@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> 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=green]
>> 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=darkred]
>>>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]
>>
>>[/color][/color]