Vista - nVidia driver made everything worse

I've tried a couple of times in the past to upgrade the driver for my 7600GS
from the nVidia web site. They've been dreadful: buggy, unfinished, and for
some reason slower than the one that came "in the box" with Vista
(apparently itself an early nVidia driver).

Anyway, Windows Update offered to update my driver yesterday, so I thought
"If Microsoft have put it on their server, it must be a good 'un."

Well, it isn't! Now the screen keeps flickering and getting funny tears
across it, the graphics score in Performance Monitor has actually fallen,
and the bubbles in the screensaver move in little jerks, rather than
smoothly as they did before.

This is pathetic. Anyway, I cured it with a System Restore, and now all is
fine again.

What is up with nVidia. Are they incompetent? Or is it my machine? (It's
a perfectly ordinary Gigabyte mobo with E6600 and 2G RAM, nothing else
plugged in.)

Has anyone else had this problem?

Steve

I have had no problems with several updates of the nVidia graphics drivers.
(Also 7600GS)

Have you tried first uninstalling the drivers in Device Manager *****including
checking the box to remove the driver files****, AND uninstalling the nVidia
drivers in Control Panel > Programs and Features, REBOOTING, and then installing
the new downloaded drivers? (Right click the downloaded drivers, click the
Unblock button, Apply and OK.)

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"Steve Thackery" <thack@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> I've tried a couple of times in the past to upgrade the driver for my 7600GS
> from the nVidia web site. They've been dreadful: buggy, unfinished, and for
> some reason slower than the one that came "in the box" with Vista (apparently
> itself an early nVidia driver).
>
> Anyway, Windows Update offered to update my driver yesterday, so I thought "If
> Microsoft have put it on their server, it must be a good 'un."
>
> Well, it isn't! Now the screen keeps flickering and getting funny tears
> across it, the graphics score in Performance Monitor has actually fallen, and
> the bubbles in the screensaver move in little jerks, rather than smoothly as
> they did before.
>
> This is pathetic. Anyway, I cured it with a System Restore, and now all is
> fine again.
>
> What is up with nVidia. Are they incompetent? Or is it my machine? (It's a
> perfectly ordinary Gigabyte mobo with E6600 and 2G RAM, nothing else plugged
> in.)
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> Steve
>