Nvidia SW Drivers

[Gamingphreek]

I have always used these SW drivers and have had no trouble with them whatsoever (as far as i can tell). Recently i saw on a thread that the SW drivers were horrible and slow and that they needed work. Should i continue to use them or uninstall them and use the regular ones.

-Kevin

 

[gistech1978]

i use the 4.12 IDE SW drivers
no problems. but the IDE drive is just for storage, its not my primary drive anymore. but it works okay for me.
its about as fast as any other driver as far as i can tell.

 

[Fern]

My first reaction is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

When I've heard of or seen probs, mostly they had to do with optical drives not working. Doesn't seem to be your case. I use win98se, although I set up a dual boot system with XP to check out the OS. I noticed on two rigs with XP that the SWE IDE drivers made all drives show up as scsi devices. I thought wtf??, but there was no real problem.

As far as they're being slower, maybe a benchie would tell. Don't know which to suggest, at least not any of my HD benchies cuz they generally use their own drivers so wouldn't point out probs with thw SWE IDE drivers.

But that seems like a lot of trouble for something that's at least not a noticable problem. Anyway, I hear peeps saying they (SWE IDE) have improved.

 

[Megatomic]

They work fine for me, too. If they're working fine for you then don't change things. For what it's worth, NV is supposed to be preparing a new UDP for release any time now. If you're going to muck with things, I'd wait for the new UDP to do it.