It is just nVidia playing games..
"Chris Mattison" <ChrisMattison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Please help...
>
> I am just minutes away from being classified as a pure noob, so please
> forgive me.
> I've noticed that with Vista, no matter how many times I update my Nvidia
> graphics drivers, the properties on that piece of hardware in the device
> manager always displays a different display adapter version than what I
> just
> installed.
>
> I have a 7800 GT, and my driver version says I've got 7.15.11.65, though I
> know I just installed 100.65 from Nvidia's site, even the date is wrong
> saying the driver I just installed is 12 days old. I remember very well
> installing current drivers on XP and having them read directly after the
> update the lastest version I installed...but Vista keeps telling me this
> version. For that matter, it tells me that I've got some Window's version
> driver, which until Microsoft devours Nvidia, too, I would like Nvidia
> drivers for my Nvidia card.
>
> What am I doing wrong, or not noticing?
>
> What am I doing wrong?
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