Possible cure for the old Nvidia driver blues

"Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote

The old familiar story.. it's a great flight [no matter the FS series
sim from '98 to '04]

I thot FS98 sucked. Even the sheep thot FS2000 sucked.

9 times out of 10, I'll wager it's the Nvidia video 'driver' and VERY
fussy they can be too

Being very technically inclined, having built my own systems and spending
roughly 35,000 hours playing with windows, installing almost exclusively
NVIDIA chipset video cards (many different cards), I have to disagree with
your conclusion. I think the problem is not related to the exceptionally
popular cards/drivers, I think any problem occurs because video is about
the most complex function on a PC. Process timing in windows is more of an
art than a science. Drawing stuff on the screen takes time.

.... depending also on the model of Nvidia card
you're running! So too, I've seen horror stories on the various boards
where folks speak of returning their high-end Nvidia [or ATI!] card and
sometimes getting back a reply that the card tested to be 'fine' yet it
just doesn't work in their system! Again, suspect the video driver as
the culprit!

Or any maker's video driver. Keep in mind that one of the odd problems with
being very popular is more faults are found.

Perhaps some of the pieces of the driver code [note that most of these
drivers can exceed 10 megs of code!] went to Windows itself for all I
know!

I am pretty sure that "unitfied" as NVIDIA uses the term means there are
lots of drivers in the file. The setup program determines which code goes
in your system. That is one reason the file size is so large. Inside, it is
not one huge, magic driver for all cards.

One tip too: IF you begin to spot especially near the EDGES of your
screen, viz., the GUI itself, what looks like a flutter or ripples that
you know is NOT related to or caused by any changes in monitor refresh
issues --and-- overall loading of webpages seems sluggish and the colors
decent but having a washed-out look requiring color and hue adjustments
via the Nvidia driver software for an otherwise fast machine, suspect,
inter alia, the video card 'driver' as the culprit! When I did the video
card tinkering, and th cure of the sim usage problems, the screen dance
ripple went away also and loading speed 'decidedly' increased for
graphic-heavy webpages! Overall pi quality also increased without
adjustment 'help' from the Nvidia software!

Try a disk manager, it solves windows problems. After learning how to use
PartitionMagic (recently bot by Symantec) I have nearly total control over
my system. I can configure my system any way I wanna and I can troubleshoot
any problem.