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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?

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.

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

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.

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

[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.