Nvidia Nvidia Nvidia who will you blame this time for the incorrect recent driver on your website. This is the second driver I have seen with an incorrect or changed folder name this year.
The first was the 347.09 beta driver, before it was made a WHQL (acronym for Windows Hardware Quality Labs) driver within hours after being called a “BETA” driver, which the extracted folder was called “349.09-sandbag” then once it was made a WHQL driver the folder name was correct after downloading it a second time. It is unknown as to why the folder had sandbag in the name, nor did I see anyone else notice it.. maybe I got the driver when it was first released and installed it before they got to change it who knows but I found it quite weird.
We should all know by now that changing from a BETA listing to a WHQL listing immediately is the correct way to authenticate new drivers…. right?
The second was for the latest driver “345.20” which came out on February 24 2015, this is funny because the previous driver was “347.52” yet all prior 347.xx series drivers are still on the download page like nothing is wrong.
That latest driver fixes some pretty serious things, according to Nvidia.
“This driver adds security updates for the driver components nvlddmkm.sys and nv4_mini.sys.”
“The latest GeForce Game Ready driver, release 345.20 WHQL, provides support for Maxwell’s new Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing (MFAA) mode. In addition, this Game Ready WHQL driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience for Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Crew, and World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor.”
I apologize if you don’t find this to be amusing but I had a bit of a laugh when I saw this, however these games mentioned in the description for the driver are considered old now yet there is yet another lack of performance improvements provided by Nvidia in the driver notes because saying “BEST PERFORMANCE” definitely equals that… rather than saying the improvements this is how Nvidia has treated the majority of their driver updates of the last 2 years.
What do you think of this, is it considered slacking to you or was the recently released “older driver” actually fixing the issues of the previous 344.xx series and 347.xx series drivers.. I wonder?
Source: Nvidia 345.20 driver, Nvidia Drivers page
You sound like a massive fanboy… they’re beta drivers.
Not sure which way you direct the word “fanboy” but I have never owned an AMD GPU ever. As for the driver being a BETA, yes it was however several days later (you can see the dates both on my PC screenshot as well as the Nvidia site screenshot) the driver was made a WHQL certified driver which is the weird part.
Normally drivers shouldn’t become certified within that short time frame and not to mention Geforce Experience keeps breaking ShadowPlay, the latest stable version from what I have tested has been 2.2.2.0.
Someone has to take a stand and say enough is enough… Nvidia used to have better quality control than this.
Mentioned “fanboy” because all you seem to do is be negative towards Nvidia, I mean they’re just drivers and they’re not even official. For all you know they’re just working on completing previous things before compiling it with newer drivers. Even if it were a mistake it’s such a miniscule thing yet you think it’s worth writing an article about and complain about quality control lol.
If ShadowPlay keeps breaking for you then you’re doing something wrong because it works perfectly fine for a very large majority of people. If you really wanted to complain about “bundled software” what about AMD and how they had security issues with their version?
…So your reasoning is that Nvidia started releasing old versions as new drivers…. because they haven’t compiled them into new drivers yet.
No I am not doing anything wrong the latest version of Geforce Experience is causing loads of issues and isn’t stable for a lot of users… please refer to the forums before trying to say I am doing things wrong thanks.
I wasn’t complaining about bundled software, I was complaining about a single portion of the software suite.
I thought it was actually well worth writing about because this isn’t the first time, you seem to call me a fanboy but get angry with me. If you don’t like what I write don’t read it… I don’t force you to read it nor does Bago Games.