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[Chris Pemberton <626964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I was having problems in gnome mines (game refreshed very slowly).
Please reference Bug #625576.  I finally found the solution: Ubuntu was
only updating my system to nVidia driver 173.14.22, while the latest
driver on nVidia's website is 256.44.  "sudo apt-get install nvidia-
current" would only install version 173; the exact same driver version
recommended during install by the "proprietary hardware wizard".  So I
dropped to a terminal, killed X, and installed version 256.44 manually
and everything runs smooth and fast now.  Stellarium (uses opengl) is
uber-smooth as well.

Fast Core2 Quad
8 Gb RAM
nVidia 9600GT
Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

Perhaps I'm missing something?  Shouldn't the latest drivers get
recommended/installed by default?

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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"nvidia-current" does not install the current driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626964
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