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Which Driver?

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metallicafan

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I just purchased a Nvidia FX 5500 from Chaintech. At first i installed the driver from the CD that came with the card. Things seemed good but a little glitchy at times so I followed the sticky post and downloaded the Driver cleaner program and deleted my driver, ran the program while in safe mode and then installed an updated driver from Chaintech's website. Now i seem to be getting worse performance than before. Same settings on games are now choppy framerates. Here is a link to my card and the driver i currently have:

http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=14&PISNo=271

http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/Download/dl_desc.asp?DCSNo=5&PISNo=271

Im guessing that the driver version 61.72 from 9/7/2004 is an older Forceware driver from Nvidia?

Is the forceware drivers from Nvidia for all their cards? Could i just go to Nvidia's website and get the 7x.xx driver for my card? thanks

EDIT: By the way i did get a warning when i installed this driver that it has not been test to work with windows or something of that nature and Microsoft strongly suggests not installing it. If it is needed i have the FX5500 256MB card.
 
The drivers from Chaintech are just the same drivers you can get from NVIDIA possibly with some cosmetic changes which don't matter. You should just ignore them and use the drivers you can download from NVIDIA. They are compatible with all GeForce cards. Assuming you're running Win2K or WinXP the latest drivers are here and the older drivers are here. If you have a board with a previous generation GPU like an FX 5500 then sometimes the older drivers work better than the newer drivers. You basically just try the latest driver and compare it to various drivers in the archive and keep the one which works best for you.

By the way i did get a warning when i installed this driver that it has not been test to work with windows or something of that nature and Microsoft strongly suggests not installing it.
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They're just telling you that the driver hasn't passed their Windows Hardware Quality Labs crap. Whenever you get that message feel free to turn towards Redmond, WA, extend your middle finger, and then install whatever driver you want. On the other hand, don't install beta drivers unless you've got a good reason.
 
Get the 71.84's from the link. Those are what you need. They work with all Nvidia cards.
 
thanks guys. I thought that would be the case but i just wanted to double check cause i wasnt sure if those drivers worked for ALL Nvidia cards.
 
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