What's up with nvidia?

[TransformX]

I don't know how many of you noticed, but if you keep downloading the newest drivers for your aging graphic card, you're doomed.
I've seen it with my old Geforce 5600 and now with my Geforce 6600. The latest 'forceware' causes the cpu to hit 100%, slowing it to a crawl and then forcing it to reboot when playing a movie (wmv, mov etc). If their newest drivers aren't compatible with 'older' hardware, why the f*ck don't they say so!?

[Paddy]

I find them useless for my GeForce 7400 Go. Someone here pointed me to a third party driver, but I can't remember who or where. See that was helpful wasn't it!

[Tom]

I've used ForceWare 93.71 on a FX5200 and a 7950 GT KO on different machines and haven't had these issues.
It sounds like something other than a video driver issue.

[TransformX]

Well, even though it was on the same motherboard, I've had issues with 'too recent driver's on Win2k (with the BFG 5600 Ultra) and lately on WinXP with my XFX 6600GT.

[Gurm]

I've used ForceWare 93.71 on a FX5200 and a 7950 GT KO on different machines and haven't had these issues.
It sounds like something other than a video driver issue.

No, it's certain models. nVidia "fixes" certain models and then forgets that the fix was necessary. I had it happen with a GF2MX a couple years ago. I would have thought they'd have better version control nowadays.