Driver Heaven NVIDIA Interview

DriverHeaven interviews Derek Perez, NVIDIA’s Director of Public Relations. Here’s a few snips:

Zardon: Regarding the issue of new graphic driver installation, some people install over the top of older sets, and some use cleaning software/uninstallation routines prior to installing a new set. What is the official stance on the subject of installation procedures and Drivercleaner software?
Derek: Our official stance is to always…ALWAYS…install new drivers over a cleaned drive. Some of the issues people are seeing with our nForce drivers are occurring simply because they are installing over old drivers. This is bad. Always uninstall old drivers before loading new ones.

Zardon: The nforce chipsets have been a massive nvidia success story, do you have any other plans to expand further into the industry away from graphics, for example perhaps manufacturing stand alone sound cards using the soundstorm technology?
Derek: nForce has been a huge success for NVIDIA, we’re happy with the progress and the momentum that we’ve seen with AMD. We’re always looking at new markets and ways to extend our technology, whether it be networking, audio, or graphics. Stay tuned.

Zardon: Nvidias recent actions seem to be showing a major shift in company strategy, which can only be seen as a good thing, is this a result of new management or simply just new “thinking”, and can you detail any other plans you have in furthering your support to the end user community?
Derek: Simply put – this is a new way of working and interacting with the enthusiast community. There are a lot of details in the works – more online chats, Q&A’s, forum support and more.

Driverheaven interview with NVIDIA/Derek Perez @ Driver Heaven