Quote Originally Posted by Glow9 View Post
Okay so just so I get this. Say driver 9.02 came out Jan 1, Game: Shoot a Fanboy came on Jan 15th. So since ATI doesn't have this game in it's 9.02 they will release a hotfix.
But! say you didn't download the 9.02 driver but download drivers 9.03 that come out say Feb 1st, then buy Shoot a Fanboy after Feb 1st you wont need the hotfix. That hotfix will be included in the new 9.02 driver correct?
Yep, pretty much.

Though, the problem with ATI's driver release schedule is that it incures some MAJOR shortfalls.
Namely the small amount of improvement, since by releasing it monthly, there is little time to actually try to work out issues, beef up performance.
Secondly, the issue that they often break fixes applied a few months prior.

Anyhow, back on topic :
@Gener_AL (UK), this wouldn't be a very sound stratagy, as then each time a new uarch became king, they would need to dig deep into the driver to change it to perform well on the new uarch.
ATI/nvidia are much better off trying to keep cache and specific uarch out of the equation.