Nvidia driver lowered my Windows experience index score!

**Poeticsoul44** · #1 7th Feb 2009, 00:40

I downloaded a driver update for my laptop nvidia graphics card and my index score went from 3.6 to 3.3 . Did i do something completely wrong? Help would be appreciated..

**Hybr!d** · #2 7th Feb 2009, 03:40

As said in your last thread. Why do you care so much about your score? I can edit my registry and make them all 10's - Doesn't mean my PC will be any faster.

**Poeticsoul44** · #3 7th Feb 2009, 10:57

well if the score on graphics is lower then doesnt that mean the graphic quality is lower? I updated my driver so i could get the best graphic experience..

**Hybr!d** · #4 7th Feb 2009, 11:02

You think a loss of 0.3 is going to be a big deal?

The point is the score is almost irrelevant, the spec of your hardware is important and as you have a laptop that will always perform badly in games, whatever drivers you use.

Both of the top of the range ATi and Nvidia cards have a score of 5.9, do you think they both perform the same? No. They do not. So what is the point of the score?

It is just a rough guide and was intended so games makers can stick scores on their boxes and regular joe public can see if their PC will run it or not.

It is not a replacement for proper benchmarking.

**Poeticsoul44** · #5 7th Feb 2009, 19:33

alright. And i've been gaming on this laptop just to try it out and i haven't noticed anything bad with it..The scores are just something i absolutely hate about vista.

**mctw** · #6 8th Feb 2009, 09:12

go back to XP then

your games might work better as well, cos XP uses far less system resources. tho XP doesnt support Directx 10, which supposadly makes games look better!

**KanoakaVirus** · #7 8th Feb 2009, 09:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by mctw

go back to XP then

your games might work better as well, cos XP uses far less system resources. tho XP doesnt support Directx 10, which supposadly makes games look better!

Or he could duel boot.

**mctw** · #8 8th Feb 2009, 12:41

so long as hes got plenty of HDD space, that would be a much better solution, yes

**Carbon** · #9 8th Feb 2009, 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by mctw

go back to XP then

your games might work better as well, cos XP uses far less system resources. tho XP doesnt support Directx 10, which supposadly makes games look better!

Using "looks better" DX10 extensions is completely at the whim of the programmer and completely optional. It is not a magical software library that makes everything look better, it is primarily designed to make DX9 apps work better.