nvidia Driver question

[fjaloma]

Anyone have any input on the GeForce 5200 series graphics cards?  Thats what I have in my.... laptop.  I know... I know, I'll be getting a dedicated gaming system in a few weeks time. For now, however, would it be safe to assume that some of the driver tweaks I've read about below are "across the board" upgrades?  Due to the fact that they use similar if not the same chipsets for their video.

Question 2 regards building my gaming system. What seems to be the preferred video card / combination for desktops these days?  Opinions?

Thanks,

Disco

[Bruv119]

Hi guys

I recently got a 8800GTS 640mb.  It works ok the nvidia drivers that came with it are something like 9227 with the latest ones 9278 forgive me if the numbers are wrong but im at work and cant double check.

This morning after about 30 mins plus twice randomly AH froze went to white screen, no windows error report, basically froze the machine for a bit then me having to close AH from the outside.  With the latest drivers off their website the results were much worse the game crashing nearly straight away.

With all this talk of 9xxx nvidia drivers being crap do any of you know whether the old 8xxx drivers would work on such a new card as the GTS?

Obviously i'll find out myself tomorrow when I log some more hours to see if my fixes so far have done the trick.

Thanks in advance

Bruv
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[RTR]

Disco, for the 5XXX series gforce cards the 61.77 drivers seem to work the best.

cheers,
RTR