No it doesn't work that way at all. Drivers just control how the card is OPTIMIZED. ONLY FOR CERTAIN GAMES will this increase FPS but only a little amount.
@RuneSR2 your friend is hilarious. I wish it worked that way. LMAO!!!!!!
Exactly, often I get the impression that the very early drivers may be slightly faster than newer, maybe because for example Nvidia knows the cards are going to be tested all over the world by Anandtech, Tom's Hardware etc. But mostly I think Nvidia is pretty good at maintaining similar performance through the years. Often I use the Unigine Heaven benchmark, if I observe any difference with new drivers it's typically less than 1 %, and not necessarily an increase :# But I did get similar results using 417 compared to older drivers from 2017. Not changing to newer drivers before I really need to.
