Some driver related questions for Vista Ultimate x64

[Synomenon]

Ok, I have a GeForce 7950GT and an ATI Theater 650 Pro. TV Tuner card in my PC. I just did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate x64. Downloaded all the Windows Updates for it, installed the chipset drivers for my motherboard, then downloaded and installed the latest ForceWare driver for my 7950GT from NVIDIA's site and the latest driver for my Theater 650 Pro. from ATI's site.

After all that, Windows Update still shows these two updates that I should download:

NVIDIA driver update for NVIDIA GeForce 7950GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)

and

ATI Technologies - Sound - ATI Unified AVStream Driver


Why does Windows Update show these two when I already have the latest drivers for each card? I tried downloading and installing the WDDM one for the 7950GT, but installation always fails.

 

[Nickc19]

Anybody know? I was wondering this too on mine...

 

[uallas5]

Could it be that if the newest drivers aren't MS certified, windows update is going to show you the drivers that are? Funny thing is I'm running Vista Ultimate X64 with GeForce 7600GT, the latest drivers from Nvidia but I don't get anything in Windows update. If everything is working I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: uallas5
Could it be that if the newest drivers aren't MS certified, windows update is going to show you the drivers that are? Funny thing is I'm running Vista Ultimate X64 with GeForce 7600GT, the latest drivers from Nvidia but I don't get anything in Windows update. If everything is working I wouldn't worry about it.

Exactly. Windows Update shows you the latest MS certified drivers for that HW even if it's older than the latest from the vendor (since the vendors version isn't yet certified)...