Chris Mattison

I did see that last number, but I decided to ignore it, since it still says
my last drivers were created on the tenth of this month, not the 20th like
Nvidia says.

"JW" wrote:

> Note that the last number the .65 is the correct number.
> With differnt versions of Vista drivers both 32 bit and 64bit and many
> different card/chip types it it appears that the first 3 sets of number
> idendify the specific drivers for your card. It appears that the 100.
> number is used to identify an entire family of card and OS specific
> individual drivers with the same set of software features.
> "Chris Mattison" <ChrisMattison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:83172EF6-028C-4E26-813B-83A7B46E0787@microsoft.com...
> > 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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