Do You REALLY Need To Update Your Drivers?

Is updating your drivers as important as people make it seem?

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[Tomanista]

Windows: "This device is working properly"
Me: But it's not?

[lloyd]

If your driver took you to the wrong destination, then maybe it's a good time to update it.

[wesley]

My grandma "I don't need this update" also my grandma "why don't my speakers work?"

[derekmcgaming]

"Do you really need to update your drivers?"
Uber: ok

[hysel]

Chipset drivers are also important from a security point of view. Especially around devices like TPM.

[brickwellhomestead]

This is of course not the gospel if you're working in a production environment that everything must work the same exact way every time, there's been many of bugs introduced with new updates as well.

[Askorti]

Updating your GPU drivers might not always be a good thing. In my own example: I have a RX 580 GPU. With the newest drivers it causes Assassins Creed: Odyssey to randomly crash. The only way to fix this issue was to roll back drivers to an older version.

[K-o-R]

"Use your official motherboard audio drivers."

_Laughs/cries in USB headphones_

[jesushernandez]

It's like ya'll read my mind, I was literally just wondering how important all my driver updates are because I'm troubleshooting slow boot times on my PC lmao and then bam I get the notification for this video

[dumpsterdawg]

Still waiting for the driver that will update my 8800GTX to a 3090.

[gradientO]

I don't know, I just run Pacman -Syu every week

[aadavanelangovan]

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[cheesemons]

Having worked on computer used for scientific equipment data acquisition: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

[josephmassaro]

In my experience, in the last few years, more and more software systems "suddenly" become unresponsive, forcing an update. In many cases, I think that is by design and not simply your system operating under an outdated version. Particularly when companies include things in updates they want on your system, but you might not.

[Mr.Morden]

BIOS updates are important at major AGESA releases for AMD platforms. From 1.0 .x.x to 1.1.x.x to 1.2.x.x

[shadowplague]

Waiting for my RTX 3090 to be turned into an RTX 3100.

[mineland]

My radeon hd 6450 on linux: "dont, thats a great mistake my boy"
*procedes to break every opengl app*

[josephmeholick]

reminds me there was that one nvidia gpu update that turned off the cooling fans. they quickly patched it but the damage was done.

[Lurowene]

THANK YOU I've been trying to figure out where to download more RAM you guys are the best!!

[BryantAvant]

One of the most common malwares my customers get is fake driver update software. I just tell them to stay away from anything that says driver. I also say that dedicated GPU are the only ones that would ever really need to be updated.