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[Falcon500]

As none of you know, I am not in expert when it comes to the "insides" of a computer.

I have a Nvidia Gforce4 MX video driver (or whatever)

I am running DirectX 9.0 "or better"

an AMD sempron 3000+ processor

I was went to the Nvidia site to see if there where driver updates, and found http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html

will this make any difference in my gaming experience, (like raise the quality) if i download it?

[Scorpiоn]

Depends on your current driver.  If your drivers are at all current (read: within this year), more than likely your will see no improvement on a G4 series of card.

Go to Start>Run>DXDiag>Video Tab>Display>Drivers Field>Version to see what version of drivers you currently have.

[Falcon500]

yeah my driver is 3 years old (2 years and four months)

[Scorpiоn]

With drivers that old, it is very well possible you will experience some gain in performance, but don't expect anything too dramatic unless you have errors.

Personally, and I stress this is just me talking here, I have never experienced a noticeable gain by updating drivers.  I only update when I have errors.  Sometimes I update (such as BF2) or I revert back to older drivers (as needed with CnC:ZH).  But if you're really concerned about damage, you know the old saying - if it ain't broke don't fix it.

[Ashton Lawson]

i swear, that one driver update screwed my GeForce 4.  Its never ran the same...

but seriously, u should try to keep ur drivers uptodate

[Ivan]

[quote]With drivers that old, it is very well possible you will experience some gain in performance, but don't expect anything too dramatic unless you have errors.

Personally, and I stress this is just me talking here, I have never experienced a noticeable gain by updating drivers.