Thread: Graphics Drivers for Windows 8

When win-8 loaded on my PC it installed it's own set of drivers for everything. And, everything works just fine.
Video, sound, lan...............they all just work. I'm Impressed!
Heck, it even loaded the drivers for my Epson workforce 500, AIO printer.
No driver conflicts here!

Doc

For such an early release this is surprisingly stable and fairly complete. Sharing was easy as well with the ribbon on Windows Explorer. Loaded drivers for all my hardware that worked well right out of the box. I have not had to upgrade any drivers. In fact my Logitech mouse (wireless) works similarly to in Win 7 with the Logitech Setpoint software. Did not install Setpoint in Win 8 DP. So far I am pretty impressed. Still working on getting used to Metro UI, but I'm going to continue and give it a fair chance.

Ted & all,
I'm running version 8102 and I'm wondering if there's a later version available.

I still can't get Windows mail running. It keeps asking for different .dll files.

I finally got AVG 2012 to load but it keeps wanting to restart to finish the install. I've restarted it at least six times already.

Oh well, fussing with win-8 is cheaper than going to the pool hall.

Cheers Mates!
The Doctor

So far, I have been happy with the built in Windows Defender while using Win 8 DP, which is not often any more. I just find the more complete OS (Win 7) allows me to do more than Win 8 DP.

I'm on Win XP right now, but I try to get on Win-8 at least every other day, just to keep up.

I totally bombed, trying to activate Windows Mail, so last night I installed "Thunderbird" and
was surprised at how easy it set up, almost by itself, for my GMail. It's up and running with
absolutely NO problems at all.

AVG is another story. I ran the install, from my flash drive, in Administrator mode and it
actually did install, BUT, it came up and told me that it needed to reboot the PC to finish the
install. I've rebooted at least 8 times now and it's still saying the same dang thing. Grrrrrr!
Also the email scanner remains inactive, despite my efforts to activate it and the 'Link Scanner'
doesn't work either. It (AVG 2012) may work better with the final release of Win-8, but right
now it's a wash. Thank goodness, my #2 security program, Malware Bytes, is running just fine.

I've installed a few other little programs that I like and they too are running great.
I have "Img Burn" and "Photo Filtre" installed and working, to just name two.

With the power built into this early release, I'm suspecting that the final release date may be
moved up a bit. The fewer PC's built and marketed with Win-7 on them, the better off we'll
all be.

OH, and I reversed the process to Kill Metro UI and then ran just the batch file and not the
registry script. I now have a much cleaner desktop without the Huge disclaimer in the right
corner of the desktop. And, the PC boots right up to my custom desktop, without issues.
I also have my Programs menu, which was not there after running the .reg script.

I'm happy to say that I'm getting this thing beat down to size, and finding out what will
work and what won't. I like most of my customers, just want something that works for
the every day stuff like eMail and some internet browsing, checking my bank account, etc.

Happy Holidays Everyone!
The Doctor

Nvidia has released the 296.17 Preview driver. This driver is for GeForce 6 and higher desktop cards. It is specifically designed only for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and provides full WDDM 1.2 support.

Beta and Legacy Drivers - GeForce