Reviews of nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP (32-bit)

1. 
   rasaxeli

   Reviewing 190.38 (Aug 19, 2009)

   i want to download but i cant find download link
2. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 186.18 (Jul 4, 2009)

   I'm having better luck with these 186.18 drivers under Windows XP Pro SP3 and the main games I play, like Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth II - Rise of the Witch King and Painkiller.
   
   8x Anti-Aliasing looks clean and stays that way, even if I ALT-TAB in the middle of a game and re-enter it. No shimmering, no odd renders on third-party created maps in ROTWK and I get great performance with the eye-candy in Painkiller Black at 1280x960, which is the same res I run ROTWK at. I don't seem to be experiencing too many slow-downs, even with tons of opponents in both games.
   
   Have not experienced any NV4_DSP errors yet, but I haven't cranked all the eye-candy to maximum and done extensive testing with Triple-Buffering / Vsync and Super-Sampling, but those are coming up next. If they experience problems before a new release hits, I'll post the details.
   
   But so far, they feel pretty solid. Worth a 4 as a result, at least for me.
3. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 185.65 Beta (Apr 3, 2009)

   This seems to work ok for me, but I think 178.24 worked better with my 8800 GT 512 meg card.
   
   Still - I don't get about the concern about the control panel. I have it installed and the default control panel seems just fine to me. Unlike that HORRIBLE ATI CATALYST CONTROL CENTER garbage.
   
   Is there a problem with the default Nvidia control panel?
   
   Could you elaborate on that "registry change" that will give me the classic one so I can compare?
   
   Thanks
4. 
   mprost

   Reviewing 182.08 (Mar 16, 2009)

   Remote desktop is ONCE AGAIN broken in this release, OMG, when is nvidia going to fix that for good? And why is MS WHQLing drivers that broke basic OS functionality? So much for their quality testing, I suppose WHQL is just a way to control the market and, of course, profit from one more thing...
5. 
   jcunews

   Reviewing 182.06 (Feb 20, 2009)

   Although the classic control panel can be enabled manually via registry, it's like Artem said - the panel is crippled and has user interface glitch that make the interface a little unstable.
   
   And yes, it's becoming bloatware than ever. More likely be worse than ATI driver. It's not ISP's nor the programmer's fault. It's nVidia's vision fault since it controls what to give to the users.
   
   It's so called Unified Driver - aka. "All for one, and one to rule them all" is a joke. The proof is that the driver can't rule them all. No, really.
   
   From what I've known from nVidia users in forums and blogs, more and more various complaints regarding the drivers are pouring. Ironically, it's the other way around for ATI driver.

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