nVidia Graphics Card Drivers

I heard somewhere that you should only download nVidia graphics card drivers directly from nVidia, and not from Microsoft. Because a lot of the newer games require OpenGL support and Microsoft drivers don't support OpenGL. Is this true?

Solo.

globox wrote:

Sounds about right..... it's unlikely Microsoft would host Nvidia
drivers anyway!

*/Lynn Perry <...>/* wrote:

I heard somewhere that you should only download nVidia graphics card
drivers directly from nVidia, and not from Microsoft. Because a lot
of the newer games require OpenGL support and Microsoft drivers
don't support OpenGL. Is this true?
Solo.
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Microsoft do distribute nVidia drivers on their XP CDs, and via
Windows update, but they remove the OpenGL support. This isn't
so much of a problem these days because actually very few
modern games use OpenGL. I'd still recommend getting the
drivers directly from nVidia though, especially if you are
running Glidos.

Cheers,
        Paul.