Latest vs. WHQL Certified Drivers Question

[cputnam]

Seems that there appears to be some problems with the latest ver. 5.41 drivers.

Question - Is there any advantage to sticking with the certified drivers? I know that these are basically "blessed" by MS, but are they "supposedly" more stable, etc?

thanx!

[paulcs]

I'm not having problems with the PD 5.41 drivers, although I have a relatively standard system: Intel BX chipset, Pentium III CPU, Aureal-based soundcard, etc. I get identical benchmarks, and image quality seems to have improved over ver. 5.30.

In my experience, and this was with the 4.xx drivers and a G200, the certified drivers were a fair bit slower than the "unblessed" drivers. (Slower *sometimes* translates to better stability and compatibility.)

I think you should try 5.41, and if you don't like them, uninstall them, and try the certified drivers. PC configurations are so different, it's hard to predict how the 5.41 drivers will behave on your system.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net