Nvidia drivers vs same ol @#$%

Im just wondering aloud here, shouldnt nVidia be making newer drivers instead of just rehashing old cards with new names?

9? What about us abandoned 8 series pwners, which most of us have?

Look, Im no fanboy, and dont give a arts arse about what card I buy. But Im seeing all these nVidia fanboys slamming ATI about drivers this and drivers that when thats an old old story, and doesnt apply today. If anything, I see people using ATI talking about their new drivers all the time. Then you read about nVidias drivers being tweaked for this and that for show and not application, and while theyre screwing around doing all that, plus turning 8600s into 9500, and the 8800 whatever mess, they havnt made a new driver for the vast majority of their product owners in almost 4 months. Thats pathetic

And thats why I said what I said above. Here they are, making money and not supporting their customers. This is a huge problem from where Im coming from. If theyve been supporting there 9 series, and not their 8 series, its starting to sound a little like the Creative scenario here

I've been quite unhappy with Nvidia's driver support as well. There hasn't been a new XP WHQL driver update for the 8800GTX since December 19th, 2007.

Im not giving up on NVidia, but its been waaay tooo long. If this keeps up, it may become a problem. My problem is, they havnt really released anything new except your card SINCE the 8 series, and with no driver support for almost 4 months, and to put a shine on the newer 9 series? How am I to be confident that they didnt just release these newer drivers for the 9 series just for sales, and worse than that, how can I be sure they wont fudge them for the 8 series when we do get new drivers. I mean fudge them just to make their 9 series look better again? After all, theyve already done it once. I guess Im pissed (To you Canuckians, that doesnt mean Im drunk eh?)

And why do you have to take it out on the Canadiens.... they will go on stirke you know, that means no Canadien Bacon or maple syrup for the entire world... do you realize what you have just done.

Well, I live in California, and I cant even get Canadian beer here thats good, just heated up Molson, so forget about the bacon, though hockey here may suffer heheh

I looove that Canadian beer. I lived in Canada for awhile, on the rock as they call it there, Vancouver Island. Truly beautiful

Wonder if that scenario would be covered under insurance? The nVidia syndrome

I am not a fan of either side, but the nvidia people are die hards. Rather than buying an ATi card, they would live and die with what they have.
Nvidia for life............

Hmm... its now April and they haven't released any new drivers for the previous generations. I wonder whats going on.

EOL means what, no longer producing ? That doesnt make them obsolete or useless, there just prolly isnt much demand for them.

EOL means End of Life as in no longer producing or supporting.

The thing is that nV has said since way back that they willl move to a 1-2 official WHQL driver launch a year strategy, mainly aimed at major bug fixes or feature adds, outside of that the enthusiast community can rely on the betas.

Some people like that (they get 2-3 driver versions a month) others don't.

LOL Well, I want to thank B3D for having the 174.74 beta drivers! Theyre working great, seems a little clearer and better bungholio marks, but the best of all is my low fps in a few games are higher and noticeable. When I lived in Langford BC, we always went out and got pissed, on some of the best beer Ive ever had, Okanaguan Springs (spelling maybe off, as I didnt really take the time to read the label ) Anywho, thanks for help finding me a decent upgradeable driver, and I recomend it for sure. P.S. I sure miss Canada

Thanks again. Im puttin that in my favorites!!!

@TheGreatGrapeApe:

Im pretty sure you contributed to the fall of HD DVD
broken encryption = less movie studios releasing on that format

True, it's all my fault I take total blame.... which is why I bought and LG SuperBlu suckaz !!

Thanks to Slysoft though I think we'll keep free even under the Blu spectre of Sorny.

Wow, what's wrong with the 8 series cards that they need new drivers already? I'm pretty happy with the performance of my 8800GT and the fact they haven't released any updates probably has something to do with very little improvement can be had. I'm not saying that's the real reason but it could be a good one.
The way I see it; buy the product for how it performs WHEN you buy it. Don't expect it to be improved later for free. Now if there are problems with it, expect them to be addressed but from my view-point the 8 series is pretty solid as is. Most of the problems are being addressed on the game side with patchs, not with drivers. Similar to expecting windows to provide the fixes for poor programming of a program that keeps crashing.

So buy a new card with each new game?
People expect improvements and compatability fixes, especially when the IHVs tell people not to worry, that there will be improvements in future driver releases, etc.

These appeared today, dated tomorrow: 174.85 Vista x64 and x86

http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForc [...] -1895.html

http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForc [...] -1896.html

Did you read what I said? You must, because you quoted me.
What words make you think I'm implying you buy a new card with each new game?
What I said was Don't expect it to be IMPROVED later for free. I did not use the word, "fixed".
Separate your 2nd sentance and I can address them individually.
"People expect improvements..." Well something is wrong to expect anything for free. It's a life's lesson that promises are broken by everybody, including businesses.
"People expect compatibility fixes" Yes, but in my full reply I said and stand by my comment that the 8 series are very stable and compatible.
"...that there will be improvements in future driver releases..." Yes, in FUTURE releases. It's just taking some time but it'll most likely happen in the FUTURE. They used to release drivers very frequently to address compatibility issues and bugs, but since they are rather stable now, the releases will be further apart.