nvidia Drivers for notebook mobile... dare I use Beta Drivers?

?To get a later version of OpenGL … Should I try to install the latest approved or even beta driver to get more capabilities with my laptop mobile video card?
I may have this question in the wrong forum … I do not know how to switch it to another forum. (Drivers)
Will the driver promote the card from OpenGL 4.2 to 4.4??
I have heard stories of incompatible driver problems that are not easy to correct
Should I have a healthy pause?
nvidia does not mention mobile cards like 670m … emphasizing the m … but I am not sure if that is implicit
Windows 7 states my video card driver is recent.
I do feel as though I do not get enough encouragement from the nvidia website.
This is for a windows laptop with a
nvidia 670m
also some attempts of this post were rejected because I had a link to nvidia which were not enjoyed
so the urls will not be clickable

at nvidia
/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-gtx-670m/specifications
the page states that the card is capable of OpenGL 4.4

opengl extension viewer tells me the card has
Renderer: GeForce GTX 670M/PCIe/SSE2
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Memory: 2112 MB
Version: 4.2.0
Shading language version: 4.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

So the two pieces of information do not agree. 4.2 is not 4.4

Here is the potential new driver with all the standard … at your own risk … and the driver may not be certified by the manufacture
It appears supported on the second tab of the web page.
at nvidia
/download/driverResults.aspx/71706/en-us

I had to use the nvidia control panel to enable open the nvidia card as the global default … to get opengl extension viewer to recognize it. Is that standard good practice?

I ask because certain pieces of literature want to use 4.3 and higher.

Your general comments are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Should I try to install the latest approved

Yes - the latest drive tends to be the most satble (but not always :p)

or even beta driver

You wouldn’t usually use a beta unless you are developing software that needs to use new features that are not available without a beta.
By definition a beta drive still has bugs

Will the driver promote the card from OpenGL 4.2 to 4.4??

Drivers cannot make a card do things that aren’t in the hardware but AFAIK a card that supports 4.2 will support 4.4

nvidia control panel to enable open the nvidia card as the global default

This is not uncommon.

[QUOTE=tonyo_au;1257549]
Yes - the latest drive tends to be the most satble (but not always :p)

You wouldn’t usually use a beta unless you are developing software that needs to use new features that are not available without a beta.
By definition a beta drive still has bugs

Drivers cannot make a card do things that aren’t in the hardware but AFAIK a card that supports 4.2 will support 4.4

This is not uncommon.[/QUOTE]

Thanks I feel I can take that step forward.
Now I have a different problem for different/related thread