Originally posted by: BFG10K
This is a thread about nVidia?s drivers; stop trying to derail it with off-topic comments and baiting.
Yep it is, I was just showing a point you've continually made---that AMD/ATI hot fixes/betas are better than Nvidia's because they're officially supported---and a point you once again attempted to make here by quoting a standard disclaimer, is patently false.
Your original claim I haven't really noticed a difference in frequency, maybe a slight increase in WHQL was responded to by pointing out the dramatic increase of WHQL drivers in the last three months or so.
And there's nothing inaccurate about my initial response to appoppin who claimed "Have you NOTICED that we are getting MONTHLY driver releases from Nvidia". My reply was that there wasn't any major difference in frequency, and there isn't, just a slight increase in actual WHQL releases. Try again.
I disagree, as does nVidia.
Of course you do, you have to in order to defend idiotic comments you've made regarding AMD's monthly WHQL driver schedule being better than Nvidia's erratic, non-standard releases.
This is absolutely false. They don?t have WHQL testing and additionally, you need to re-read nVidia?s own blurb again:
Beta drivers are under qualification testing, and may include significant issues.
If you?re claiming betas and WHQL drivers have had the same testing, then both should have the same warning on nVidia?s page. Yet they don?t because it?s obvious they?re not the same.
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Rofl, you can believe that if you like, just shows how naive you are to put any stock into WHQL testing or a standard legal disclaimer. The reality of it is WHQL means very little with regard to driver quality, as there's nothing comprehensive about it, nor does it offer any significant quality assurance. If anything it shows the Windows installer works properly, and that's not even guaranteed. A perfect example would be ATI's bug-ridden WHQLs which are often followed or preceded by unofficial, unsupported hot fixes or betas that often fix significant bugs that somehow manage to slip through WHQL.
Also, you do realize that WHQL drivers for Nvidia are often nothing more than the Beta release of the same number designation right? They're often identical down to the build version and date, they're just released right before WHQL testing as Beta and re-released as soon as they pass WHQL. As for the actual quality of the Beta drivers, there's been plenty written about them, how Nvidia has a single driver trunk where games are tested thoroughly and any bug fixes or additions are carried from one driver to the next:
- Rel 180 Driver article by Derek Wilson
NVIDIA's approach to drivers does provide fewer WHQL certified drivers, but now that they are back to unified drivers and done with the Vista transition, we can generally get good results on any card with any beta driver. NVIDIA has one driver trunk and a huge list of games they test with each update (even their beta releases get QA'd quite a bit before release).
There's plenty of other articles documenting Nvidia's extensive driver process, but really the best proof is the driver itself. As someone who has no problems using Betas from Nvidia's site the only difference I notice is that the Betas bring up an additional confirmation message in Vista.
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