Best nVidia drivers

[Xelinis]

Okay, so the past few drivers, as we all know, have had a myriad of issues, the 17* drivers especially. Heck, I'm using ArchLinux with 169.12 and I still have a couple of issues.

So here's the question: What are the 'best' Linux drivers in recent memory? By that I mean drivers that are up to par performance-wise and are relatively bug free.

And yes, this was posted on the nVidia forums as well.

[Kano]

Use the latest.

[deanjo]

Use the latest.

Ditto. I agree.

[Huenengrab]

I'm having strange tearing with the most recent driver on Arch64 mit Xfce and xfwm-compositing activated.

Any ideas?

[phaedrusiszen]

I'm having strange tearing with the most recent driver on Arch64 mit Xfce and xfwm-compositing activated.

Any ideas?

Turn on Vsync. Tearing is caused by the video card updating the framebufer in the middle of a screen draw.
Vsync makes each frame buffer update tied to the refresh rate. Your frame rate will drop, but your tearing should go away.