Upgrade Nvidia drivers?
By
Ardrea,
Posted on: 2010-05-08 05:04 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Well if your computer runs coh fine then why bother? 
If you do have issues though, trying it out cant cause too many problems, if it doesnt work just uninstall them and go back to your original drivers.
Personally if it was me, I'd say if its working, dont change it 
If you're not having any issues with the new changes then there really isn't any real reason for you to update your graphics drivers. However, bugs aside, newer drivers generally yield increased performance in most cases.
Your card is better then mine and I had horrible issues with the 197.45 drivers (8800 GTS Card). So you might get a greater benefit from them then I did. It never hurts to experiment. Currently I'm using the 196.21 drivers without much issue. Ultra mode has brought with it a fair share of hiccups. Performance with UM settings off are much worse then prior. Sound looping bugs and memory leaks. I've got it running on settings that I'm sort of happy with at the moment.
These are all things as they're brought to light a bit more will be ironed out I'm sure. So it wouldn't hurt to give some newer drivers a shot.
Again if you don't feel comfortable with doing that, then don't. If the game runs how you want it to there is nothing forcing you to change anything.
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- 68 Unique Characters / Fifteen Level 50s & Counting! Damn you alt-itis!!!!!!!
Okay, I gulped and decided to give the upgrade a try. I found the current drivers on nvidia's site via google, and downloaded the installers for both the current versions and the old version I had been using, in case I needed to revert.
The update went fast, less than a minute, and once the computer was back up I checked on CoH, and everything was fine. Another, older game I'd been having trouble with is now much more stable and decently playable again, and that was what I was hoping for.
Thank you everyone for the advice. 
Last summer I got a new computer. It uses Nvidia GTX 295 video and runs Vista 64 bit. At first, I had a lot of CoH problems, which were eventually ironed out by reverting from the drivers it came with (I don't know what version they were) to a slightly older version of the Nvidia drivers -- my Nvidia control panel says they're version 185.85. Since then, with the compatible cursors turned on, it has worked well enough, and I've strictly avoided updating those drivers.
Now, here and there in these forums and even from red names, I see advice to update drivers. Is this unequivocal without regard to video cards, OS, and such? If I upgrade to the latest Nvidia drivers -- which the Nvidia site says are 197.45 for my OS/card, is CoH going to keep working? Or should I stay on these old drivers? I don't want to mess it up.