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We haven't had a WHQL driver release from nVidia since October last year!
Aren't they supposed to release every quarter/3 months?
Aren't they supposed to release every quarter/3 months?
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Excellent, I'm hoping for some tweaks to improve speed in Skyrim
A whql driver can be just as troublesome as a beta imhoWe haven't had a WHQL driver release from nVidia since October last year!
Aren't they supposed to release every quarter/3 months?
Ah sadly you are missing some big performance increases then from the 290.53s. The new WHQL should have the same optimisations in them though
Yes, but he also misses the memory leaks that come with 290.53
Think you'll find thats the 295.51.
Use the wink when you get the facts right son.
after the argument and my friend had gone home Ive looked at my machine and realized that I'm running the Nvidia driver version 280.26 and everything works fine Ive not had any issues at all. So even though Ive just argued the opposite point it makes me wonder is it AMD frequent release schedule that causes the "AMD drivers are pap" stigma or is it really just nonsense.
The AMD regular release schedule isn't the cause of AMD driver issues... but neither is it of any real benefit if you look at it purely objectively... it might be if they kept up the effort behind the scenes but they don't.
Personally the nVidia driver release schedule doesn't really bother me - its very rare I've been waiting for a driver to support new games, usually there is atleast one driver thats completely solid even if not the highest performing - even if some of the newer drivers have issues.
While I think that ATI/AMD drivers being terrible is a thing of the past people seem to ignore the scale/relevance of the problem(s) when comparing nVidia and AMD drivers. AMD drivers generally are much more robust these days than they used to be but they don't have as timely updates for new products as nVidia and when they do have problems they tend to affect a larger number of customers. nVidia driver issues tend to typically affect fairly limited numbers of their customers and are usually dealt with in a more timely fashion and/or atleast taken more seriously as the threads on their forums show.
My bad I should have known that too, as I switched from 295.51 to 290.53 with which I currently have zero problems, not even the "driver recovered error".