monthly driver release for nvidia
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vhx
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LOL, Love the article's tone. Yeah... ripped from ATI's play book. I guess anyone who updates something once a month ripped it from ATI's business plan.
On topic: It's a new OS, and new hardware, of course they are going to release updates for it more frequently. Did anyone honestly have to be told this?
Well they did rip it from ati's playbook. Obviously nvidia has had driver problems and decided to follow the leader on how to fix them. Is good to admit when you have the wrong idea.
He's telling Nvidia to give us the *(@#! drivers because they're broken.
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Originally posted by: SickBeast
He's telling Nvidia to give us the *(@#! drivers because they're broken.
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Oh, forsooth!
Keysplayr
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Originally posted by: SickBeast
He's telling Nvidia to give us the *(@#! drivers because they're broken.
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Really? Is that what I said? At least now I know where you got the idea that I openly admitted AEG affiliation. You made it up.
Good driver will arrive March 12th or just a few days before. That's the launch date for R600. Mark my words.
Schadenfroh
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ATI cloned nvidia's driver page layout, I guess it is only fair nvidia releases new drivers every month
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Cookie Monster
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Whether or not its copied, this is good news at the end of the day. I think it shows great commitment, not to mention the bug reporting feature that nVIDIA has introduced.
its a good step for nvidia.. pumping out drivers once a month means constant working, tweaking and upgrading to ensure that each new driver improves upon the last.
who cares who copies who, in the end, consumers get the best of both worlds... no dongle, easy to navigate driver page, monthly driver updates... etc
who cares who copies who, in the end, consumers get the best of both worlds... no dongle, easy to navigate driver page, monthly driver updates... etc
Not really. I've been having this happen with ATi for about a year with my X1900 series, and I can tell you a strategy such as this seems to center more on quantity over quality. Just because they plan to release a driver every month doesn't mean every release is going to be an improvement over the last. That's ideal, but not realistic.
Still, more drivers to choose from and having a constant update of them is a good plan. As long as they don't launch a refresh, flagship product and then forget to support it in their monthly driver release like some other video card company I know...
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It doesn't. It has to do with following or copying.
Here Creig, let me explain it all to you since you want to play dumb. Not saying you are dumb mind you, just playing the part nicely.
I was annoyed the OP had to put a little bias twist on this thread. Why? Don't really know, it could be just the way he said it. He could have just said that Nvidia is planning on monthly driver release, and that it was about time. That would have been perfect. But then felt the compulsive need to say that Nvidia was following or copying ATI's monthly driver releases. Just reread ronnn's 2nd post in this thread. Anyway, this may be nitpicking on my part, but I felt it needed addressing and posted an example of the reverse. ATI following nvidia as the pictures do show.
At any rate, I'm sure ATI and Nvidia *do* often follow the leader in various ways. I expected Nvidia to release drivers more frequently to get G80 cranking in Vista and improved across the board.
If this does not clear things up, lemme know and I will try again.
Keys
Who cares? In a month there will be a thread just like this one.... and the month after.... and the month after that.....
The bias twist didn't come from the OP but from the site he linked. His following post was an agreement to that bias.
And if you want to get technical about the dual-internal GPU scaling links, didn't the X1950 Pro come out before the G80? But are you talking more about the dual-links or the fact that the connections are internal? Because if you only meant the internal connections, I apologize.
The OP doesn't seem to be the only one caring. Don't worry about it keys, lets move on with the discussion, okay? Ronnn agreed with b3d's biased and somewhat true statement. Big deal. ATi has copied nVidia, nVidia has copied ATi, now let's move on.
So now that you've posted an image and text that shows a definite biased anti-ATI twist, does that mean that others should be equally annoyed and post something with an anti-Nvidia slant? Or would that not be appropriate since it would be against Nvidia?
Oh, and your tone towards me was pretty rude. I simply pointed out that your post had nothing to do with the topic of the thread. Haven't you posted threads in FI complaining about members being rude to each other? Maybe you should go back, reread them and apply it towards your own behavior. :thumbsdown:
What you're not mentioning is that after Cat 6.6 ATI's monthly driver releases did nothing except hurt performance.
I would rather have one quality driver update every four months than have a crappy new driver every month.
I would rather have one quality driver update every four months than have a crappy new driver every month.
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