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| Thread ID: 42607 | 2004-02-16 17:23:00 | I've been thinking...Drivers | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 216040 | 2004-02-16 17:23:00 | If I have a computer running properly and I'm happy with it, why should I have to download new drivers whenever the manufacturer decides to issue them? OK, if they support new software or a new OS , fair enough. An example : I have a Leadtek graphics card. I downloaded the latest nvidia drivers for it and installed them. They are installed correctly and are recognised. BUT, I can't see the slightest bit of difference. The new drivers are dated five months later than the old ones. Another question: How do I stop win XP finding new hardware? I did not load drivers for AC sound. I never use sound. My speakers are lieing in the dust on the floor behind my desk. I got so fed up with sound being FOUND everytime I booted that I installed the drivers to get rid of it. I have an Ambient external modem loaded and running, but XP still occasionaly find an Intel modem and wants to load drivers. So now I have two modems showing in Device manager both on the same port. One with a red cross through it. But XP is happy. If I remove or uninstal it ,it gets found again, Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 216041 | 2004-02-16 19:10:00 | PnP is too intelligent for our own good hah? You should be able to disable the on board modem in the bios. Re updating drivers, I don't bother unless there is some major issue then again it can cause even more issues ;( -ie if everything is fine and dandy leave well alone. We seem to spend more and more time "updating" as the OS "advances" ;). Pity you don't have ya speakers plugged in it enhances your computing expreiance you know, or thats what I've been led to believe. |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 216042 | 2004-02-16 22:22:00 | Very sad Jack, obviously you don't listen to my HTOTW. You don't know what you are missing :) All that hot 1920s dance band stuff, the exercise of tapping your feet and jigging up and down would help to counteract the 20 a day you smoke :D | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 216043 | 2004-02-17 00:34:00 | With video cards you are generally best to stick with the drivers released at the time of the card or soon after. New video drivers are optimised for the newer cards and may even degrade an older cards performance. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 216044 | 2004-02-17 00:43:00 | Well...i cant agree with that,Video card drivers need to be updated in order to make sure the card runs newer games properly.Plus new features get added into em from time to time. The only time i would stop upgrading drivers due to performence is when the card is outdated by a couple generations,My gf2 for example is used with drivers that were released a couple years after the card,Using more up to date drivers does cause a degrade in performence,but so does using drivers from around the same time the card was made. JJJJ,You can expect zero increase in performence by just loading one video driver over top of the last one.But you were told to do it properly so who cares aye? Besides,i would guess you don't know how or where to look for changes and you probally wouldn't recorgnise them if you did. |
metla (154) | ||
| 216045 | 2004-02-17 00:48:00 | Actually,seeing as i did on the whole agree with that prior post the first comment i made can best be ignored. | metla (154) | ||
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