i must say the new drivers run beautiful with fear.... it no longer has these 2 hick-ups i've always got in the stress test, i've had those 2 with my 6800gs and 7900gt, and now its gone.. so nice... i tried a new setting and achieved very playable framerates... tried it ony 1280x1024, 4xAA 16xAF soft shadows on, and achieved nothing lower than 35 fps, an everage of 57, and a high of 100 something.. don't really remember..... so far no problems with the drivers, although i've only had it for about 15 minutes