4 WHQL drivers from 21 October to 7 January : roughly 2 months of AAA end of year games 3 WHQL drivers from 7 January to 20 July : 7months I blame the Rythm of Gaming industry, or overall situation of PC gaming. Meanwhile things are happening on console (yes i'm mad not being part of Destiny Beta) :bang:
How many games have driver issues that are preventing you playing them or causing other major issues?
WHQL sign off isn't free.....nor does it make any difference in the quality of the drivers. WHQL has always been a joke and always will be a joke. If you don't want to wait for NVidia to waste money getting a driver signed by MS, just use the betas like everyone else does. That WHQL signature is 100% meaningless anyway.
If you included beta drivers as well starting from the 27th of December then it would be 11 drivers released in 9 months, thats not including Quadro, GRID, CUDA ect drivers that people use.
If WHQL drivers are an indication of "the state of PC gaming".....it was almost non-existant in the 90's when driver releases were rare for most hardware makers/vendors.
I don't blame Nvidia driver, just that it shows no game tried to push the boundaries on pc gaming for this 1st half of 2014. Btw, i didn't know you had to pay for WHQL certification. After using several beta drivers i tend to say i had more stable experience from WHQL than beta, on BF4 at least, which have been my benchmark for 1 year almost :/
Its how it usually is, this pattern. I mentioned it once, but got called for it that Im clueless xD Anyway there are always new drivers, because of old bugs or some new critical ones that needs fixing asap. Sometimes it takes longer then usual, probably so they get as much feedback as possible to fix "everything".
Drivers have nothing to do with games trying to "push boundaries on pc gaming"....lol New drivers are released when there are bug fixes. If there isn't a bug fix, there is no driver. That's exactly how it should be. There's no reason to release a new driver if there isn't a bug being fixed.
So the recent drivers that increased performance in some scenarios had no point at all. Interesting perspective.
I was responding to: "There's no reason to release a new driver if there isn't a bug being fixed." I'm perfectly well aware that every Nvidia driver released doesn't contain enhancements or fixes for every API out there. Come on...
How isthis a surprise? Nvidia has always had a strong emphasis on non WHQL/beta drivers. They fix what needs fixing and improves what needs improving, which is all that matters. As long as the beta drivers are publically available, there should be nothing to complain about.
