Nvidia's new Concept of Drivers

[jph1589]

When Nvidia came out with their Beta 91.28 drivers (and I use the term drivers loosely), I was the good customer who eagerly downloaded them and installed them. What a mistake that was.

The new user interface can only be described as disgusting. The drivers no longer allowed the same amount of overclocking that I had in the previous version, and I'm not even a gamer and I noticed the performance was degraded significantly even at stock speeds.

But being the good customer that I am, I left them on for a couple of days. I wanted to make sure it wasn't just my old/hate to change/hate when things are different attitude. But after 2 days I had all I could stand and ran DC and reinstalled the old 84.21 drivers.

That all took place a couple of months ago. So I waited and waited until the production versions came out and I even waited for the new release 91.47 and I eagerly tried again.

This time not only did I have all the problems mentioned above, but now they screw up the color on my TV tuner card. No matter what I do or how I adjust the color, each time I open the tuner program, the color is different than it was before. Sometimes it is very bright, sometimes it is very dark. Not to mention the fact that trying to change settings now is like hunting in the dark.

The other thing I noticed is that not only will it not let you overclock as well as the old driver, it doesn't let you overclock in 2D mode at all. Maybe that is just a personal thing, but I always overclocked both 2D and 3D so that the GPU freguency wasn't changing back and forth. I personally thing that would be a good thing/feature. And since it was there with coolbits, I assumed when they finally after all these decades of denying overclocking ability in their drivers,.........oh well you know what I mean of course.

I guess I would have taken this better if they had screwed up anything but my TV TUNER@!!!!!!!!> That get's personal!!!!!. I'm very proud of my Hauppauge setup and nvidia shouldn't have messed with it !! LOL.

So driver cleaner was again my friend this morning and the 84.21 drivers are back where they belong.

If I am stupid enough to give new nvidia drivers another try and this happens again, I'll be on my way to the store to buy an ATI card. Oh god did I really say that???

Thats all folks!!