Importance of updating video drivers?

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My display driver is an NVIDIA GeForce 2. Every once in a while I'll visit NVIDIA's site to see if a new driver has been issued and, if it has, I'll install it. How important/useful is it to keep updating the display driver or, for that matter, any driver? I have never noticed a difference in performance after making such an upgrade, though I realize that many such improvements are invisible. Still, one wonders whether it's worth taking the trouble to stay on the leading edge just for the sake of doing so!
 
Staying up to date is no problem,
BUT
Another old saying is "If it aint broke don't fix it"
 
Squire's post is right...IF you are not a hardcore gamer who is trying to
squeeze every last frame per second, and your current drivers are stable and
you are happy with them, then why upgrade? On a video card that is as "old"
as yours, there's not many new tricks it can be taught to do anyway.

Bobby
 
Bob said:
My display driver is an NVIDIA GeForce 2. Every once in a while I'll
visit NVIDIA's site to see if a new driver has been issued and, if it
has, I'll install it. How important/useful is it to keep updating the
display driver or, for that matter, any driver? I have never noticed
a difference in performance after making such an upgrade, though I
realize that many such improvements are invisible. Still, one wonders
whether it's worth taking the trouble to stay on the leading edge
just for the sake of doing so!
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"Staying on the leading edge"?! How can you say that with a straight face -
you're running a card which has been superseded 4 or 5 times! ;o)
 
Bob Fliegel said:
My display driver is an NVIDIA GeForce 2. Every once in a while I'll visit NVIDIA's site to see if a new driver has been issued and, if it has, I'll install it. How important/useful is it to keep updating the display driver or, for that matter, any driver? I have never noticed a difference in performance after making such an upgrade, though I realize that many such improvements are invisible. Still, one wonders whether it's worth taking the trouble to stay on the leading edge just for the sake of doing so!
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NoNoBadDog! said:
Squire's post is right...IF you are not a hardcore gamer who is trying to
squeeze every last frame per second, and your current drivers are stable and
you are happy with them, then why upgrade? On a video card that is as "old"
as yours, there's not many new tricks it can be taught to do anyway.

Bobby
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Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
"Staying on the leading edge"?! How can you say that with a straight face -
you're running a card which has been superseded 4 or 5 times! ;o)
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