4-in-1 Via Drivers - XP Necessary?

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• primesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian

  October 2003 edited October 2003

  It is highly recommended that you install the latest VIA 4-in-1s, since the drivers that are bundled with XP are generally out-of-date.
  
  Especially on the older VIA chipsets, many bugs were fixed with the later revisions of 4-in-1 drivers.

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• DooGie Stockport UK

  October 2003 edited October 2003

  Put it this way. I got a very large performance boost in 3D Mark 2001 after installing the 4 in 1 drivers. When I say boost I mean an increase of around 2000. The default XP AGP drivers do not work well full stop.

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• danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX

  October 2003 edited October 2003

  No they aren't necessary. In fact they can make problems even worse.

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• Shivian Australia

  October 2003 edited October 2003

  4.38's I found to be good on my older Via PIII board. Going to the new Hyperion's stuffed it up quite a bit so I don't bother stuffing around with the new drivers now that my setup is stable. The earlier revisions (pre 4.35's) were trouble too.

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• SeaOtter Cambria, CA

  October 2003 edited October 2003

  Can the 4-in-1 drivers be installed over a "fully installed" operating system? XP home edition is randomly freezing and all other trouble shooting has been done. However, the 4-in-1 drivers where never installed and the mobo has via chipsets on both the north and south bridge processors.

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• primesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian

  October 2003 edited October 2003

  You can install the 4-in-1's at any point.
  
  Danball, I have to wholeheartedly disagree with your advice. The microsoft drivers are terribly unoptimized, and you will not get the performance that you paid for unless you install the 4-in-1 drivers.

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• TheSource

  October 2003 edited October 2003

  i dont install them because it fucks up counterstrike with my via motherboard and geforce4 mx video card. kinda wierd. oh well

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