I am wondering if this is the correct the driver for my gForce FX 5500?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_163.75.html I am asking, because I am really sketchy about what I download, and I don't want to ruin ANYTHING, haha. I realize this is an older card, and I don't know if my dad overclocked it or not. I used to play Half-Life 2 awhile ago, and I want to play again, and I think I need new drivers.
Quote:What?s New in Release 163
? Improved compatibility and performance for NVIDIA SLI? technology on
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 applications.
? Improved compatibility for The Way It?s Meant To Be Played? game titles:
BioShock, Crysis, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Hellgate: London, and
World in Conflict.
? Added PureVideo? HD decode acceleration for GeForce 8600, 8500 and
8400 series GPUs.
? Improved performance of the graphics memory manager on GeForce 8
series GPUs running DirectX 9 applications in single‐GPU and NVIDIA SLI
configurations.
These improvements solve cases of reported performance slowdowns in some 3D applications
with high graphics settings and resolutions.
? Improved compatibility with PT Boats: Knights of the Sea
? Added NVIDIA SLI profile for Team Fortress 2
As for the "fixes" for this release, none seem to be for the 5500.
I would say it will be ok.
You can always roll back the driver if it "ruins ANYTHING".
I will say the when I had an old GeForce, I installed all the new updates.
Then one day it was ruined.
Most of the updates at that time were for the new 64 bit XP.
So I had to roll back a few updates.
I never updated past that point.
So look at the release notes and see if they apply to you for any more updates.
