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geforce 304.79 betas

Fixed a compatibility issue with Civilization V and GeForce 400/500 series GPUs
Fixed instances of flickering or missing mouse cursor when hardware cursor is enabled (reported with Aion, World of Warcraft, Eve Online and others).
Fixed instances of very low frame rates in Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX11).
Fixed an issue that caused a PC reboot instead of a PC shut down.
Fixed an issue that led to a black screen after driver installation.
Power management mode settings now persist across driver overinstalls.

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I'm surprised that bugs like that were in an actual release of a driver. Puts me off beta drivers. Is a beta not considered a release, though? Well I don't have a graphics card at the moment, so it's by the by, but stuff like this is discouraging.

In the classical sense, a beta is a feature complete release of the product that is being released to the public so that it can be exposed to a wider range of configurations and user behaviors. The goal is to draw out and eliminate any bugs that the developers haven't found yet because they couldn't test for it or weren't aware that a situation required to reproduce the bug could actually occur.

It could be that the bugs listed there only occurred in very specific scenarios that haven't been tested before, which seems like a valid thing to happen with beta software.

OIC, I should have known that. (Think I must have forgotton.)