VIA AGP driver: good or bad

[crsgardner]

Has anyone (on the board or on the net) tested the "new" (released in August) AGP in the August 4-in-1 driver release? VIA hasn't updated in a long time, and I'm currently running the 4.43 drivers all the way back from 2001.

I'd upgrade immediately, but this article disturbs me. Are they basically saying "don't use the driver"? I value system stability as much as performance, and I'd hate to run into problems just because their driver may not work with SP2.

Anyone mess around with this and see if the driver actually provides improvements?

 

[effee]

Are you happy with your rig's performance? Do you have any problems? If you're happy and no probs, no reason to upgrade, especially if you're unsure about it

 

[crsgardner]

I was happy with my rig's performance until I realized that the official nVidia drivers suck compare to the betas. Now I'm taking a close look at all my drivers, seeing if I can tweak more performance out of the rig.

 

[Viper96720]

If your using XP and have SP2 installed when you install the 4 in 1 just uncheck the agp driver.

 

[yezhou]

I have them installed...and I never seen that article, so I have the 4-in-1 AGP drivers installed also I think...I don't have any performance issues, so I dunno. But in that article it talks about "AGP3.0/3.5" devices, but when I look in my Device Manager>System Devices, I see "VIA CPU to AGP2.0/3.0 Controller". Is this the one that I'm "supposed" to uninstall? I'm kinda confused now...