You think the delay had anything to due with the acquisition of Aegia and the incorporation of the PhysX into the drivers?

Tom's Hardware, will you hire me to proofread your news blurbs?

Because they = the suck is why.

Nvidia has been completely unreliable in the driver department for as long as I can remember. I noticed the severe drop in frequent updates right after the 8 series cards were released. Fine DX10 tuning took center stage afterward. Next was Vista and the scramble to conform to the Microsoft's giant belly flop. Now PhysX and CPU interests have completely stolen the focus of the company... That and the hard pressed need to change GPU's every 3 months in response to ATi's heated pressure. Nvidia either is understaffed, or is severely disorganized. Either way, I wish I would of held out for the resurrection of success that ATi is experiencing.

Why does Nvidia need to constantly update drivers?
Update them when it is needed would be a better approach imo.

Are you out of your fucking mind? Why would NVIDIA need to update drivers monthly? You have just wasted my time.

NV is top dawg, they don't need to support their customers to keep in business these days.

OLD DINOS ROFL

RUN TEH ETST

nVidia NEEDS to update drivers on a monthly basis. If you don't use nVidia cards extensively or are a fanboy, then I can see where you might not think that they need them. (24/7 on only two or three games still doesn't give a feel for the rest of the rather large game industry)
However, I would be remiss not to mention the industry wide driver update policy: "Only update your drivers if you have a problem with the current ones".
So while you may not need driver updates personally, nVidia needs to supply them.

Any time a new game comes out, optimizations can be made.
Any time a new game comes out, there is a high probability that at least one card in the three generations supported by the same driver release will have a bug that needs to be fixed.
Finally, any time a new game comes out, there is a chance that nVidia's overaggressive performance focused drivers will drop the ball in the quality department and customers will see the trade off.
Of course they blame it on a driver bug, but the fact of the matter is, if they didn't optimize so aggressively, it wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

Don't think ATI is off the hook either.
nVidia may have led the way with shader replacements, but ATI is just as guilty for stepping down and following suit.
(Shader replacements weren't the first thing nVidia did, just the one that got ATI to take the bait)

I give ATI a slight advantage, though, as they realized that they needed frequent driver updates to make sure the aggressive optimizations didn't get out of hand.

Before someone starts crying fanboy, I should mention that I currently use 3 nVidia based computers and 2 ATI based computers.

Geforce 8800GTS 512Mb
Radeon X1900XT
Quadro FX4500
Geforce 6800 Ultra
AIW Radeon 9700Pro

The Quadro is in an Intel Xeon based system w/Intel chipset.
The rest are in Athlon 64 754/AM2 based systems with nVidia chipsets.

Yeah right. You expect NVIDIA or ATI to release updated drivers every month or every new releases to optimize the performance. This idea is nothing but garbage. It would make sense if you lived in the perfect world. Since we are not in the perfect world, this monthly update thing will never come true.

ATI is working pretty hard to be in the top for GPU latly ever since 3800's. I noticed them taking alot of action, hey they made mistakes but they moving on.