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Too lazy to update your drivers? May want to read this!

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etalns

Diamond Member
Well, I am one of those people who is just so darn lazy, that I hate upgrading my drivers. Well, I guess I just didnt realize the differnece it made. Earlier today I clean wiped my computer, and I decided i'd see what the big difference it'd make to benchmarks to upgrade a single driver. So I chose the one driver that'd maket he biggest effect for me, my video card driver. The one I currently have is 1 year and 7 days old. Not THAT bad. Okay, so my comp is booted up and then I install 3dmark 2001 and I get it up and running.

Before Driver Installation
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Program:3dmark2001
Video card: Geforce 2 GTS
Tests Skipped: Nature, Enviroment Bump Mapping, Pixel Shader
Final Score: 2492

After Driver Upgrading
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Program:3dmark2001
Video card:Geforce 2 GTS
Tests Skipped: Nature, Enviroment Bump Mapping, Pixel Shader
Final Score: 3044

I know alot of ya who always update your drivers are gonna say "we know..." but this is jsut for all the people, like me who could care lessa bout drivers. It's worth it 🙂

Does it have about the same increasei n performance if I upgrade the drivers on my mobo also? or is a video card just something that makes the biggest diff in benchmarks.

Thanks,
Perry
 
You may be wasting your breath on a forum filled to the brim with computer geeks. You might want to try whyismycomputersoslow.com😉
 
Knew there'd be a few people who'd say that 😉

But I can ensure you, that there are some people (alike me) who browse the forum that usually wont update their drivers. Be it for one reason or another.
 
I finally upgraded my sound card driver. I had had no idea that windows talks to you and tells you to upgrade video drivers and the like when necessary. It's also so easy to do with the talking wizard that explains every step step by step. The german accent is cool too.
 
i upgraded my video drivers all the time until i found one that was 100% stable (nvidia had problems under win2k for a while). then i didn't upgrade for a while (for one thing, how many betas does nvidia leak a week?) because frankly, i wasn't playing that many games. now i'm not gonna upgrade until i can get one that doesn't do weird things to DAoC.
 
I find that it's a good idea to wait before upgrading my drivers to see if other people start to complain about problems with them or not.. 🙂
 


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Ensure is one of those 'power shakes' made for old people. You're probably thinking of depends. 😛
 
I always wait and scour this site on the effectiveness of new drivers when ever they come out. After all I read about releases here first anyway. Take the 23.11 drivers that came out, after reading that there is no great improvement, I decided to keep the 21.83's for now.
 
It's a good idea to update all drivers. Video card and chipset/motherboard drivers usually make the most noticeable differences. Sound card drivers can help too, but not usually; talking strictly performance here.
 


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I certainly do. That clip's hilarious. 🙂
 
Greets all, first time posting.

I agree with GrumpyMan. While I would like to update to the latest drivers ASAP, the whole compatibility issues and whatnot always make me wait. I mean why ruin a good thing.
 
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