nVidia's not so ''Unified'' Driver Support
DooGie
This isn't news and as far as I'm concerned it's totally correct for nVidia to do this. Why the hell should they bring out new drivers with total backward compatability, it would make no sense at all.
Anonymous
I noticed that, too when my 6800 was on RMA but come on ... the only "problem" about that is that the driver selection is not correct ... they should add one more item for pre GF2 cards
Rosco
One other thing to note, most people running a video card that old are probably still using Win95/98, and most likely have not even considered installing a new driver except for the one that came on the cd with the card. Well, their might be a few CS players bitching about it though.
Cimlite
"This news is six months old but for various reasons is still not widely known." Yeah... could it be that no one actually still runs a TNT2 card? I mean, even if your a basic computer user that has no ambitions towards graphics heavy applications or games... your probably way past a TNT2 card anyway. This is pointless whining, not news.
Mastertech
It is not just the TNT cards but these are well: TNT2 TNT2 Pro TNT2 Ultra TNT2 Model 64 (M64) TNT2 Model 64 (M64) Pro Vanta Vanta LT GeForce 256 GeForce DDR GeForce2 GTS GeForce2 Pro GeForce2 Ti GeForce2 Ultra GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics Quadro Quadro2 Pro Quadro2 EX
TSThomas
Stay tuned for part 2 - Microsoft & Windows 95 - Why No More Updates?
Mastertech
Spoken like True Elitists. You can always tell those who own one computer and those who support many. Millions of users still have these cards in their computers. It is good information regardless. They drop support for those cards but continue to Support the GF2 MX line? Interesting.
TSThomas
Not sure if that remark includes me but anyway. As acknowledged; this applies (Or rather, doesn't) to multiple graphics cards & for over half a year. If this was such a "big" issue you'd have heard of it by now. But there's been nothing. Why? Because it's a non-issue. & just say they were to release a new driver supporting all those again, what difference would it actually make? As regards games they don't have the hardware features to run them correctly or the performance/video memory to run them playably either. Like I said, it's a non-issue. New Drivers will do nothing to bypass the hardware deficiencies of those graphics cards now. If you want to stick with old hardware you can't expect support forever.
Mastertech
Maybe I'm the only one who read the whole article? Anyway he is saying that nVidia clearly says their drivers support all these cards, they have been doing it and then without warning they just drop support? The point is that nVidia should notify you of this and possibly stop calling the drivers Unified if they are not. I understand why they are doing this, it still does not make it fair to the owners of these cards. Nor the fact that they continue to support GF2MX but not the GF2 Ti a faster card. I know this is hard to believe but their are millions of people who would care.
Mastertech
The Geforce 2 TI cards came out in 2001 after the GF3s and the GF2 MXs which came out in 2000. Anyone here work for an OEM? Didn't think so.
Mastertech
Seriously am I the only one here who doesn't skim read articles? I'm talking about the GeForce, GeForce 2 and especially the GeForce 2 Ti series.
Juomaru
Just permanently stop posting this guy's "submitted" blog as news, please.
