Nvidia driver changes
Posted: 09 Feb 2007, 05:38
Interesting....
NVIDIA Adopts Monthly Driver Releases
Taking a page out of ATI's book (well, AMD now), NVIDIA plans on having regularly scheduled monthly driver releases instead of random, sporatic offerings. Thanks Beyond 3D. Here's a snip:
With all that information put aside, we really wanted to know what NVIDIA was willing to tell us about their upcoming driver development plans. While we know that GeForce 7-series cards currently can't run SLI under Windows Vista, when will users that shelled out their hard earned dough for this hardware get to put it to use?
NVIDIA told me that they planning to start releasing a new version of their Forceware driver for Vista at least once every month. I say at least because Diercks said that if they find several game fixes or bugs that are substantial they may have intermittent releases as well to help appease the gaming masses. This move is very similar to the driver development cycle that ATI's Catalyst drivers have been in for a couple of years now, with updates about once a month. Having this type of regular schedule should help NVIDIA users feel more at ease about their purchases knowing that a fixed time length is ahead of them to await another software release that could address whatever issue that ails them.
They also reveal the drivers themes for the next few months: February is "achieve a WHQL
NVIDIA Adopts Monthly Driver Releases
Taking a page out of ATI's book (well, AMD now), NVIDIA plans on having regularly scheduled monthly driver releases instead of random, sporatic offerings. Thanks Beyond 3D. Here's a snip:
With all that information put aside, we really wanted to know what NVIDIA was willing to tell us about their upcoming driver development plans. While we know that GeForce 7-series cards currently can't run SLI under Windows Vista, when will users that shelled out their hard earned dough for this hardware get to put it to use?
NVIDIA told me that they planning to start releasing a new version of their Forceware driver for Vista at least once every month. I say at least because Diercks said that if they find several game fixes or bugs that are substantial they may have intermittent releases as well to help appease the gaming masses. This move is very similar to the driver development cycle that ATI's Catalyst drivers have been in for a couple of years now, with updates about once a month. Having this type of regular schedule should help NVIDIA users feel more at ease about their purchases knowing that a fixed time length is ahead of them to await another software release that could address whatever issue that ails them.
They also reveal the drivers themes for the next few months: February is "achieve a WHQL