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Don't Upgrade Display Drivers Using Microsoft Update

Instead Go to the Vendor's Website and Download the Driver There

Yesterday I ran Microsoft Update and one of the 9 updates it found was a display driver for my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. I installed you driver and found it had in fact downgraded my v8.1.9.8 2005/12/10 driver to v4.5.2.3 2003/07/28 and changed my settings from 1280x1024 resolution and 32bit colors to 640x480 resolution and 4bit colors! My display looked awful! I went to www.nvidia.com download and installed v8.4.2.1 2006/03/09 and it automatically restored my display settings.

Ignore NVIDIA's recommendation to uninstall the old display driver before installing the new one. If you do that, Windows will want to reboot after the uninstall and after the reboot it will detect the display and install the old version that shipped with WinXP.

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You have a point. I stopped allowing Windows to upgrade my video drivers a couple years ago when I noticed Windows was actually flagging my new-from-ATI driver as "old" and needing to be replaced.

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Any way to roll it back? I don't even have Nvidia and the latest update broke the game - it gives an Application Error message

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Have you tried clicking the "Roll Back" button in the drivers tab for your video card in Device Manager?

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I had no problem with lastest update.

I even download the Ati radeon 9800 update and everything is fine...

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Um, why are you going around bumping every thread you've ever started....

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Um, why are you going around bumping every thread you've ever started...

I didn't bump all my threads, just the ones I thought were still relevant. Unless a thread is a sticky, it quickly disappears from the first few pages and is never read again. Perhaps I went a little overboard. Sorry.

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Don't upgrade ANY drivers from Microsoft Update/Windows Update. Ever. Any computer tech worth his salt will tell you that.

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