Do old drivers get better performance in old games than new drivers?

[Floppy Kant Fish]

Hi.

So I was having a conversation with someone and they made the outrageous bat-shit-crazy claim that older games will get "better fps" with older drivers.

 

His graphics card is gt 630m; a true potatoe. I don't remember the cpu it was some calculator inspired intel dual core. 

 

My reasoning is that, my much newer laptop, hasn't gotten a relevant driver update in about 8 months. But there's been a mosh pit of driver releases. Thus these "older" drivers are really the same thing as the new ones. So any fps increase is imagined.

 

What does everyone else think?

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Probably not lol since the new drivers will contain what the old drivers did but be optimized if that makes any sense at all.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

this is what happens with new driver old games, terrible draw distance problem 

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Maybe because its Ubisoft AssCreed, which runs like ass anyway.

 

Having a problem with just one game is not representative of all 'old' games.

 

But even if there was a particular old driver that ran better with <insert game>, good luck shuffling between drivers lol.

it ran find on my 560ti , got my 780ti and it looks awful , it was not like this before, this is like GTA 4 breaking the game if you have more than 2 GB of ram type of scenario 

[Badger906]

if you want to play old old games have a virtual version of xp or even dual boot xp to play those specific games.

[lovingGamer]

no, even i know that lol