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I recently upgraded my detonator drivers to 91.31, a beta release of which is available at Guru3D.com. Moving from 84.26 seems to have made a noticeable improvement, while significantly improving the performance for Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. I was able to increase the resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768 with game play still being smoother (no benchmarks sorry).

This set comes with nVidia's new control panel, pushing the driver archive up to 64 MB. I'm pleased nVidia has finally moved the functionality out of the increasingly bloated device properties window to a dedicated application window. Being a beta release the control panel is fairly unresponsive and buggy. Initially the over clocking menu option was not appearing, but later did so after tweaking the clock and memory with RivaTuner (I don't know if the two events were related). The interface has been completely remodelled as well, and while it still needs a lot of work the categorical grouping on the primary window is certainly a step in the right direction.

For those of you who are interested I'm running on a 3.2 GHz celeron (overclocked from 2.4), an XFX 6600GT and 1G of PC2700 Corsair RAM.