Well there basically isn't a point keeping an old card like that updated with newer drivers anyway. You just end up with increasingly large driver packages that do nothing specific for your card and are certainly unlikely to add any new features or functionality.

Technical support peeps and documents love to tell everyone to always update to the latest driver at every available opportunity, regardless if there's any benefit, which I can't see is the case when the drivers are several years newer than the card/component in question. There are probably some exceptions to this.

My Geforce 5900XT is still using 2 year old drivers. They do the job, so why update.


Regarding crashes with Nvidia cards, aside from 2xAA, some people report (varying) success trying different screen resolutions and colour depth.