love the feeling of a driver update fixing stuff

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gorcorps

gorcorps

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Yes, there are certain problems that shouldn't have been there to begin with, but it still feels satisfying when an annoying little issue finally gets resolved with a driver update. Especially when that little issue involves missing keystrokes on a wireless keyboard randomly. The workday can improve so much more when you can type at the speed you're used to without issue.

It's the little things folks
 
SlitheryDee

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I miss that feeling. I remember obsessively checking every manufacturer website for the latest drivers because I was sure it would give me slightly better performance or fix some nagging problem I had. I hardly think about drivers anymore. Stuff just seems to auto update or work properly out of the box more often now.
 
amdhunter

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I've owned Nvidia graphics cards so I have never experienced this.

Typical Nvidia users always see this instead...
wddm_timeout.gif
 
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us3rnotfound

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Recently for a regular client of mine, I had a BIOS update that fixed a 5-7 minute POST lag. Ah that was a nice update.
 
Leros

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The other 999 times, a driver update just breaks something. Never upgrade.

Posted from Windows 98 SP2
 
mnewsham

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I used a wireless keyboard for awhile, my biggest complaint was always that it would occasionally miss keystrokes, sometimes I just thought it was me, but after awhile you really notice it and realize it isnt you, its just the keyboard. After that I have pretty much gone exclusively wired keyboards, which is pretty much a requirement for me anyway as I have moved on to mechanical key switches.
 
gorcorps

gorcorps

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I hate the feeling when you come back to the office and what you thought was fixed is back

*sigh*
 
Red Squirrel

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amdhunter said:
I've owned Nvidia graphics cards so I have never experienced this.

Typical Nvidia users always see this instead...
wddm_timeout.gif
Click to expand...

Wow glad it's not just me. That was actually one of the things that pushed me to Linux, I was getting sick of my screens randomly flickering off and back on at random then getting that error. Oddly it would only do it during regular desktop usage and not gaming. Nvidia drivers are almost as bad in Linux though, I had ended up going ATI because of it. I have two decent Nvidia cards sitting on a shelf with nothing to use them for because the drivers are garbage. I think Nvidia is typically considered better hardware wise but that's moot point of the drivers crash all the time.
 
Newell Steamer

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Driver updates use to be a nightmare. Especially in the early Win '95 days.

But, today's world isn't 100% free of fubared driver updates. Nvidia's GeForce Experience has been know to just lock up and freeze when looking for an update. I must have uninstalled and reinstalled 'Experience' a 1/2 dozen times.

What finally did the trick was manually update the drivers, instead of through Experience. And, once the driver updates, Experience stopped locking up and freezing.

Experience seems to be a bloated piece of crap.
 
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Smoblikat

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amdhunter said:
I've owned Nvidia graphics cards so I have never experienced this.

Typical Nvidia users always see this instead...
wddm_timeout.gif
Click to expand...

That happens all the time in one of my PC's. Though I know its not the driver, im pulling too much wattage through a single rail on my multi rail PSU :p

Its just a temporary solution, so wutevs.
 
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