Hi StefanG3D,
Thanks for the links, I'll check them both out.
Re the most recent driver 307.83, I expect that the further away from the original 70 & 80 series drivers we get, the LESS LIKELY NVidia will be to compile in any support for obsolete instruction sets like MMX and 3DNow (and even SSE), and the MORE LIKELY NVidia will be to require SSE2 & later instruction support for their drivers to work at all.
I could be wrong, but that just seems to be the way things roll in the coders world. As an example, MS quietly dropped MMX & 3DNow support in DirectX 9 distributables after 2008, so I would expect NVidia to take a similar approach with their video drivers (in fact, that seems to be the source of my probs with the 70 & 80 series drivers).
BUT for the sake of completeness, I will take your advice and try the 307.83 driver.
Re the XP updates, have you found doing so to be of any particular benefit? I'll check out the link you gave, but also interested in your perspective if it's about anything more than security.
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