Thanks everyone for the great advice.

Yes, I did update the score after installing Microsoft's recommended update.
I did get a score of 1.0.

It did return to 3.8 when I went back to the earlier driver.

"Frank" <fb@osspan.clm> wrote in message
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> ChuckN wrote:[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?
>>
>> Is there a fix other than not installing that update?[/color]
>
> Uhhhh...did you update your score after the new driver was installed?
> You must do that otherwise it will always default to 1 when new hardware
> or drivers are installed.
> Frank
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