Drivers

    Most companies do not even modify the drivers that they brand as their own, and as such we will look at the latest drivers from Nvidia the 41.03's.   Before we get on to some images of the menus, I would like to mention my experiences with the drivers before I was able to download the 41.03's.  The 40.72 beta drivers we just that with this card, beta, in fact I could not get any testing done with them as the drivers caused what looked like overclocking errors on the screen as soon as windows was running.  The previous drivers, the 40.42's had some interesting problems as I was not able to access the refresh rates higher than 75Hz with my Dell monitor (which does support 85Hz refresh rate at 1600*1200).  But the most recent drivers are different than those older drivers in that all these problems are fixed.  Lets look at some of the driver menus that are part of the new drivers.

The Nview main control panel
The Performance settings for both OpenGL and Direct 3D	The OpenGL settings menu
The Direct 3D refresh rate settings	The Nview rotate settings

    The main panel on the left is an interesting addition, as it goes away once the focus is not on that window.  One of the menus, NV Rotate is function that I found to be especially useless as all it can do is rotate the screen, so unless you have a LCD that can rotate, this feature is pretty useless.  Otherwise the drivers are well laid out with most things being easy to access and not more than a click or two away from the main menu.  I especially like the inclusion of a Direct 3D refresh rate tool, as this allows you to set the refresh rate you want when playing a game so that your eyes do not get sore from the low refresh rate default of 60Hz. 

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