Nvidia Drivers

[Kal'thzar]

Ok, so I get back from a year abroad, and I sit at my desktop thinking trying to play a few games I enjoyed prior to my year abroad.

And I've finally realised that the reason they keep crashing might have something to do with two things: Dust, Drivers.

Any other ideas?

Anyway, what I want to ask is that, are the Nvidia Geforce 7 series (I have 7600 GS, on XP), are they really at driver version 178? Cause my last driver is 6.14 , not knowing TOO much about this type of thing, I was wondering if anyone could tell me that the drivers have changed this much in (2 years? max? Can't remember, I know I was pretty religious in downloading new drivers at the start but this is just weird....)

 

[GVBN]

DLL version doesn't really mean a thing. XP drivers have 6.14 and Vista drivers have 7.15. The last 4 numbers are usually the only ones that change between releases, but even those aren't the same as Forceware/Catalyst version numbers. The "real" version number can be found in Nvidia control center or whatever it's called

 

[Kal'thzar]

Ah Awesome thanks for the info

 

[Brian Boru]

Don't ignore the other drivers while you're at it. I've had crashes cured by updating sound and network card drivers too.

 

[Kal'thzar]

Good point, I'll look into it