What Gives With Nvidia's Drivers?  

If I install any video driver updates beyond that which WU wants me to have I end up with an inferior 1280 x 1024 resolution and a grey taskbar and everything is squished. I end up with no nVidia control panel and no higher resolution or landscape setting possible.
I've read the release notes for 181.20 and 181.22 beta and they both supposedly support 1680 x 1050 x 32 @ 60hz W/S for my 7600GS card.
So what gives?
I seem to be doomed to be forever stuck with 179.23, not that I suppose it really matters.

Did you refresh your wei after you installed the drivers

No, but how would that make the driver act correctly?

You need to refresh the wei so the OS knows what it can enable.

That's a first. Never seen it before where the system can't detect a new driver the second it's installed.
I'll give it another whirl then. 181.20WHQL or 181.22Beta - ??

I'm using the 181.22Beta and it recognizes it as a Windows 7 driver when installing, so that must be a good thing.

Mr GRiM said:

I'm using the 181.22Beta and it recognizes it as a Windows 7 driver when installing, so that must be a good thing.

Yes 181.22 works well, and yes it shows as win 7 driver. Have been using it with no probs on x64. :)

Romulinx2 said:

Yes 181.22 works well, and yes it shows as win 7 driver. Have been using it with no probs on x64. :)

Same here!










Later Ted

The WEI refresh trick had to be employed in Vista occasionally after driver updates too.

I think W7 will say that any Vista driver is a W7 driver....I'll now go through this yet again.