It's already late April and still no WHQL driver

I think thats the main thing Darren, people who want updates use betas and modded inf's and generally dont complain about driver frequency unless something big is broken or a big game has issues (DA2).

The WHQL crowd are waiting for ages because they only want a 'working and safe' driver which isn't really the case anyway. I always keep 2 drivers on my machine/usb stick though the latest WHQL and whatever beta im trying and is working.

 

No they havnt promised anything but when people put out 700 to 1500 dollars for their video cards people expect driver updates to correct problems.Bottom line is nvida doesnt give a rats ass about customers we are all just a number ($) to them.Its no wonder the US economy and others are in the ****ter.

 

Man....

 

I am married to a celiac. This means she is allergic is wheat and anything related. She told me cause of all the life threatening allergies out there if it says 100% beef it is or people could die...Ingredients are a stamp of approval...

My point: You have to believe what is on a label...

 

Food is one thing, software is another. Your comparing apples to oranges here.

 

And believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy too.

 

She seems to have lots of allergies, is she also allergic to CAWK ? :giggle2:

 

yes they have beter performance in crysis 2 but in some ohter games they loock worst

 

Trust me, i knew who you meant, big HT buff, but it was 2am, and just unfortunate that the typo is also an acronym for many other things:3eyes:
And its Lucasfilm, not Lucasarts:nerd:

Think more people would use the whql drivers if Nvidia released them more regularly, but for some reason they just don't send as many to get certified as they used to, maybe they are cost cutting lol.

Recently its been hard to know what your going to get with Nvidia, there are so many different branches being worked on at the same time, and you never know which one your getting until you install them.

 

I think they cut down on the recent WHQL releases cuz they were finishing up the majorly-changed 270.xx branch and wanted to get that out to us as quickly as possible. So we owe NVidia a big thank you for skipping relatively-insignificant WHQL releases so they could finish up on this 270.xx branch.

To find out what you're getting and if there are any issues with the drivers you only need to check these forums. NVidia tests them a lot before releasing, Microsoft may not test them at all or just a little bit, but the bigger testing is done by us and our findings have the higher visibility.

 

A quad SLI driver that doesn't have microstutter. We can but dream

 

Still no driver? Goshhhhhhhhhhhhh 4 months. It's been 4 foking month

I hope they will release a new branch 27x.xx

 

We've been over this. WHQL logos mean exactly nothing. It's just Microsoft getting paid to say they tested the drivers and that they might put them up on Windows Update. That's all it is. It doesn't mean diddly-squat when it comes to determining if a particular driver is better or worse than any other driver in the same series. Now stop whining about it or I will be forced to call the Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance for you. :smack:

 

As I previously said, there is a February WHQL driver on Windows Update, just install it over the previous WHQL, its not as good as the 270.51 beta, but it’s a decent enough driver, there is no NVCP if you do a clean install though.

Nvidia WHQLs are roughly every 3 months these days anyway.

 

You just went full retard bro.

If you have a video card, and it fails while on a BETA DRIVER, your lifetime warranty is Void. I had 2 BFG graphics cards that they would not replace several years ago because beta drivers were run with them. there is a chip built onto Graphics Cards that logs every driver version ever run on it in case it were to ever fail. Its a standard troubleshooting tool that almost every company uses to look for similarities in card failures.

 

Sorry but that (emboldened text) is just totally untrue. There is absolutely no way NVIDIA or AMD can tell which drivers you were using at the time their cards fail short of you telling them.

Some WHQL drivers have even led to hardware failure in the first place such as the NVIDIA drivers from a year or so back that disabled the fans unintentionally and caused cards to overheat and, in some cases, killed them utterly. I was fortunate enough to be using RivaTuner at the time with a custom profile so my own GTX 280 escaped unscathed.

 

I hope you are getting muddled up with BETA BIOS and not driver.

 

Fxmercenary, no offence, but you nearly got me caught at work as I started smiling, and I never do that at work.
Who told you that nonsense, I think someone was making a fool out of you, or BFG saw you coming and made it up as an excuse not to replace your GPU, which wouldn’t surprise me as rampant RMA’s are what contributed to their demise.

They really need to make the hardware side of building PC’s a lot harder, it would help prepare most people for the much harder software side of things.

 

it will be here very soon, ManualG contacted me 5-7 days ago about RE5 dx10 and LP2 dx9 issue, looks like they're fixing "all the issues" left behind.

 

Oh really? I've never heard of any such chip. The only non-volitile memory on any video card I've ever seen is the EEPROM which holds the BIOS and can only be written to by a special BIOS-flashing program. It's not designed to be routinely written to by the OS, let alone the video card drivers. In fact, if you wrote the driver version to the EEPROM on the video card every time you updated the drivers, you'd need to re-flash the video card BIOS every time you updated the drivers. And that's just not the case. So tell us, fxmercenary, where is this mystical chip that informs the vidoe card manufacturer when you've used a Beta driver. I'm sure we'd all like to know. Why don't you go take the cooler off your video card, take a picture of it, and then show us. Becasue, of course, you're not just talking out of your ass, like I think you are. Oh no, you're so certain that you're right that you've decided that I'm a "Retard." That's a pretty bold statement. You must be really sure of yourself to make a statement like that. Well, with certainty like that you should be able to produce some photographic evidence for us, right?

So go ahead: Show us some proof that you are not, in fact, talking out of your ass. Go on. Do it.

In the meanwhile, I'll go ahead and call the Whaaaaaaaaaaaambulance for you, just to save us all some time.