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Tsurisuto

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Jun 13, 2007
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I'm running Vista x64 with SP1 and have a few issues with screen tearing (and not just in games). I wanted to try updating drivers to version 175.16 found at:

http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/nvidia.htm

But I'm sure I read somewhere that you can't update the drivers yourself as Microsoft has prevented this with SP1. Is this true?
 

Muncher

macrumors 65816
Apr 19, 2007
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I'm running Vista x64 with SP1 and have a few issues with screen tearing (and not just in games). I wanted to try updating drivers to version 175.16 found at:

http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/nvidia.htm

But I'm sure I read somewhere that you can't update the drivers yourself as Microsoft has prevented this with SP1. Is this true?

Two letters: XP. Vista is screwed up; DX10 just isn't worth it.
 
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