[aldo_14]

(didn;t these use to have a different name)

Anyways, thought it may be of interest;
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

[Kazan]

when i hear "forceware" i think of the spywatre that gets forced onto yuor ststem by things like Kazaa and AIM

(and the thing force on by AIM is unremovable if you want to run AIM - if it's not there AIM silently reinstalls it)

[aldo_14]

...don't ask me where they get these names from - I'm just amazed it isn't a stupid anacronym.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Kazan
when i hear "forceware" i think of the spywatre that gets forced onto yuor ststem by things like Kazaa and AIM

(and the thing force on by AIM is unremovable if you want to run AIM - if it's not there AIM silently reinstalls it)

I call that stuff Underware

[Flipside]

It is a silly name, makes you think of doing stuff against your will.

Weren't they called Detonator drivers or something?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Flipside


It is a silly name, makes you think of doing stuff against your will.

Weren't they called Detonator drivers or something?

Yes.... I was getting confused between the ATI drivers.

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Flipside
Weren't they called Detonator drivers or something?

No.

Forceware is the name of their nForce motherboard chipset drivers.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
No.

Forceware is the name of their nForce motherboard chipset drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11793.html

Gives Forceware as name of the GPU drivers.... maybe they've unified the names just to doubly confuse people?

[diamondgeezer]

Something like that. Since the nForce driver pack contains graphics stuff for integrated NV chips, and those chips use the unified graphics driver, what used to be called Detonators (ie. the stand-alone graphics driver) is basically just the graphics portion of the Forceware pack.

I've just formatted and reinstalled, divn'tche knar? Still can't get the 3.13 drivers to work

[vyper]

Does anyone remember when drivers were 6MB at most?

[Kazan]

vyper: and then it was more than just the driver

[vyper]

Yeh indeed. My modem misses those days.

This is the problem with unified drivers - it's easier on the server side and it means less chance of some numpty downloading the wrong ones but it makes 'em huge. grr.

[Liberator]

Is there any talk of performance improvement?

[Taristin]

Advanced Microsoft® Internet Explorer® popup blocker

 Why would I want my video card to do this?

[Kazan]

$5 says that popup blocker is spyware

[Bobboau]

forceware... sounds like microsoft got involved

[Kazan]

rotfl

"Forceware", n, any software forced upon you that either infringes your privacy,  includes masses of useless content, etc that cannot be removed

[Bobboau]

that sounds like paaraciteware, I'd thing forceware would be something along the lines of;
software you have on alternatave but to install,
sort of like what MS did with office XP, "you have one month to install office XP or were dropping suport for your asses"

[Admiral LSD]

Does it make any difference that a lot of people have taken to calling these 'Fa[rceware' drivers?

[Grey Wolf]

They're causing my screen to blink randomly. It's really quite annoying. Well, back to 53.03....