Dell stinks with video cards

[TraumaRN]

So this is my rant as to why I wont buy a Dell again, so I'm just snooping around my computer today and I find this folder buried deep in the bowels of my C: drive that says simply 'Drivers.' Being the curious young man that I am I open it up, and I find numerous folders but two catch my attention, one says 'Audio' and the other 'Video.'

Now I'm fully intrigued, so first I open the Audio folder where I find the onboard sound and little else(I'm running an Audigy 2 ZS), so no surprises, then I open the Video folder and see a folder labeled ADDON, I click it to find to my HUGE surprise nVidia drivers! Not even forceware drivers! but Detenator 43.51!!! Suddenly all my problems with my 6800GT are crystal clear! The lower frames in some games, skipping and hitching and artifacts in C&C: Generals.....ooooo I was incensed! :|I promptly deleted those and now have a happy 6800GT running 77.50's

Lesson learned....download driver cleaner next time instead of thinking I can delete all the old drivers.....and that Dell stinks and I cant wait til August to buy and build my own system.

/rant

 

[Muscles]

I hate to burst your bubble but that the driver folder you deleted was completely irrelevant. You should of known to use drive cleaner and installed the latest drivers regardless if it was a dell or custom built PC.

That driver folder you found on your C:\ is the default place drivers get extracted to from the Dell driver CD. After the drivers have been installed all the old files in that driver folder on your C:\ drive don't do anything but sit there. Deleting that folder only saves a little bit of HD space, nothing more.