Stardock and NVIDIA Partner to Distribute Impulse

Island Dog

Join Date 06/2003

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Stardock and NVIDIA Partner to Distribute Impulse

Stardock and NVIDIA have announced a special Impulse ‘NVIDIA Edition” which will be specially branded for NVIDIA users. Gamers will be able to be informed of video card driver updates and install them via Stardock’s Impulse. Users will also use Impulse to see the latest gaming news and purchase and download PC games straight from Impulse.

"The single biggest issue preventing PC gamers today from having an optimal experience is a failure to update their video card drivers," said Brad Wardell, CEO and president of Stardock. "For many users, updating video drivers has been a complicated and sometimes confusing experience. As PC game developers ourselves, we recognized those concerns and, in partnership with NVIDIA, have taken a step to make the process more accessible."

Full press release can be read here.

Download the Impulse NVIDIA Edition here - http://download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/impulse_setup_nvidia.exe

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Just wondering...where would the driver updates appear, presuming they're available/needed?

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The only snag is I'm switching to ATi...

Not a problem Fuzzy. When I put an ATI card in my HP,Impulse detected the change and started showing me ATI updates rather than nVidia. I'm back to nVidia on this rig,but I assume that the driver update feature still functions this way.

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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When I put an ATI card in my HP,Impulse detected the change and started showing me ATI updates rather than nVidia.

One more reason to love Impulse

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Wow!

Nvidia and Stardock teaming up to make sure video drivers are up to date, and to help that very complicated process along.

Complicated? You download a file and run it, then reboot. Big whoop.

Heh, I've seen enough DxDiag reports from various technical support forums to show that quite a few people don't keep their video/sound drivers up-to-date.

It would be nice if Stardock could make a deal with RealTek & Creative to allow Impulse to update sound drivers. Yet another set of drivers a lot of people neglect.

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Just a note, special versions of Impulse such as NVIDIA branded ones will not overwrite an existing installation of Impulse

When I installed the nVidia edition, it said it uninstalled my old version before it could install the new.

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Same thing. Although now I updated to Impulse IV.

So is that button in the community tab it? I had that already. Was I wrong in assuming the client would automatically detect and inform me of changes? Seems all that nVidia button is doing is linking me to the nVidia driver page.

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