Recently I built my first computer. Yay!
It was fun, scary, harrowing, and a great learning experience. I had some issues, that I got worked out. Things are still not 100% but it's running and I can play games and browse the web, so that's something!
So I went onto update all the drivers and BIOS that was available and compatible. Not the least bit painless, but I fuddled my way through most of it.
Unfortunately, right before I was able to download and install a modified driver for my EVGA e-Geforce 7600 GS 512MB GPU (Video/Graphics Card), the site it
was located on got hacked! Oi! Figures.
You see, typically one would install the driver provided by the device manufacturer. However, the EVGA site doesn't yet have the latest driver posted. Hmm? So I checked the video card's chipset manufacturer - nVidia - whom released a supposed compatible one in July. However, that one didn't seem compatible with my EVGA card at all - even though the GeForce 7600 GS was listed in the release notes. I don't know if this is a known issue, or if EVGA is apparently too lazy to modify it themselves {or perhaps it's a legality thing}. Anyway. So, being disheartened and frustrated, I searched for anything I could find. I searched high and low. Near and far. Until my eyes were tired, blood shot and squinty (can I sue for eye damage from my computer??) and my fingers [nearly] bled. Miraculously - and maticulously - my efforts proved true. Thus I was thrust into the world of mod-drivers. Oooh, fun. Scary fun.
All was well and good. I took my time assessing and analyzing to make certain that the driver was the best, most recent and compatible one for my system. Bingo, I found one. I bookmarked it to download once I had time.
Of course, things didn't work out that way. *sigh*
Only that night I went to download it and found that the page was not found. The forum was still up, but the download was unavailable. I searched but could not locate it. Some people were speculating that the site was closing down, or offline for updates, or fearful that it was hacked. Unfortunately, it was the latter; "Due to a nice hacker TweaksRus has been completely lost! But I think NvRev might still have a backup of all its original drivers, so we might be able to bring back the current drivers for everyone to use. Stay posted as we are adding updates daily." Apparently some miffed user got upset and hacked their site on a personal grudge. Seriously, not the way to make your point. Doesn't matter whom was right or wrong... valuable files are gone. Hacking just ain't cool when it's destructive.
So, to finish my point... I again searched high and low to locate the most recent file. I found many of the older versions and am ready to quit and use those. The latest of which, as far as I can tell is; XTreme-G 163.14 XP 32bit.exe
Does anyone know what the most recent version is and where to find it?
Peace.
It was fun, scary, harrowing, and a great learning experience. I had some issues, that I got worked out. Things are still not 100% but it's running and I can play games and browse the web, so that's something!
So I went onto update all the drivers and BIOS that was available and compatible. Not the least bit painless, but I fuddled my way through most of it.
Unfortunately, right before I was able to download and install a modified driver for my EVGA e-Geforce 7600 GS 512MB GPU (Video/Graphics Card), the site it
was located on got hacked! Oi! Figures.
You see, typically one would install the driver provided by the device manufacturer. However, the EVGA site doesn't yet have the latest driver posted. Hmm? So I checked the video card's chipset manufacturer - nVidia - whom released a supposed compatible one in July. However, that one didn't seem compatible with my EVGA card at all - even though the GeForce 7600 GS was listed in the release notes. I don't know if this is a known issue, or if EVGA is apparently too lazy to modify it themselves {or perhaps it's a legality thing}. Anyway. So, being disheartened and frustrated, I searched for anything I could find. I searched high and low. Near and far. Until my eyes were tired, blood shot and squinty (can I sue for eye damage from my computer??) and my fingers [nearly] bled. Miraculously - and maticulously - my efforts proved true. Thus I was thrust into the world of mod-drivers. Oooh, fun. Scary fun.
All was well and good. I took my time assessing and analyzing to make certain that the driver was the best, most recent and compatible one for my system. Bingo, I found one. I bookmarked it to download once I had time.
Of course, things didn't work out that way. *sigh*
Only that night I went to download it and found that the page was not found. The forum was still up, but the download was unavailable. I searched but could not locate it. Some people were speculating that the site was closing down, or offline for updates, or fearful that it was hacked. Unfortunately, it was the latter; "Due to a nice hacker TweaksRus has been completely lost! But I think NvRev might still have a backup of all its original drivers, so we might be able to bring back the current drivers for everyone to use. Stay posted as we are adding updates daily." Apparently some miffed user got upset and hacked their site on a personal grudge. Seriously, not the way to make your point. Doesn't matter whom was right or wrong... valuable files are gone. Hacking just ain't cool when it's destructive.
So, to finish my point... I again searched high and low to locate the most recent file. I found many of the older versions and am ready to quit and use those. The latest of which, as far as I can tell is; XTreme-G 163.14 XP 32bit.exe
Does anyone know what the most recent version is and where to find it?
Peace.
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