NVIDIA Moves to Monthly Driver Release Schedule

Thursday 08th February 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Mark

Having to endure a lot of unfamiliar criticism recently thrown their way due to shoddy Vista drivers for their graphics hardware, NVIDIA has made an encouraging announcement in a short piece on PC Perspective.

In it, NVIDIA's VP of Software Engineering, Dwight Diercks, reveals that NVIDIA plans to start releasing new drivers at least once a month. Ripping the idea from ATI's play book, NVIDIA hopes that monthly releases will increase user confidence in their software engineers and therefore increase a potential customer's willingness to buy their hardware.

The good news is that this release schedule starts this month, so we can expect new Vista drivers any day now (which, according to PC Per, will be WHQL certified). The bad news is that there is no mention of whether or not Windows XP will be included in this release schedule, or if all of these monthly drivers will be WHQL certified.

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