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Old 16. Jul 2009, 11:18 AM   #12 (permalink)
jason
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I have spent a lot of time fixing pc's with problems that have originated with driver updates. It still surprises me that almost nobody actually tries to find changelogs or to find out exactly why version 1.3 is "better" than 1.25

If it's not broken....

If you do happen to find a changelog - and they say the updates fix an incompatibility with users who have the keyboard using southern Mongolian code page, and they have added support for 200 inch thermal screens when playing windows Solitaire.

Quite often the driver updates aren't really important - it is just human behavior to believe they are missing out if everything isn't at the highest number.

(Of course nothing can match the joy when you have a problem with a particular game and you are reading the "Release Notes" for the newest drivers at the nVidia website - and your game, and the problem you are having - is finally fixed. Then you KNOW why you are upgrading the drivers).
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