Drivers & Downloads

after the Samsung SH M522C Firmware TI01 update, my work PC became painfully slow :D opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time :/ task Manager shows this: The external SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any read or write…

im literally losing my mind here i play a strategy game every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 375.57, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight it…

guys pls help USB is acting cursed on my gaming PC. an external drive drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart... i updated the chipset driver from Shuttle last week, and thats when it started, i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB…

"Driver is unavialable" lmao thats all Windows tells me about my receipt printer. it started after a system restore. ive tried removing the printer and adding it again. windows finds it, then shows the same message. im guessing an old driver is stuck…

guys pls help i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. a competitive shooter hard freezes during opening teh map and then i get this: it says the device was removed... removed! two weeks ago i had zero crashes... in between, the only change…

ok weird one after installing AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition Graphics Driver 18.11.1 Hotfix Ive had a black screen after login on my prebuilt tower. Fine, Ill just roll it back. Except teh Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when I uninstalled it…

quick poll for people using AMD hardware for 3D rendering: has Catalyst Beta Driver treated u well? ive seen a couple of complaints online, but complanits are always louder than happy users 🔥 id like to hear from ppl for whom it just works, too. tell me…

Okay, this is driving me nuts. Black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened. Then this pops up: its always while alt tabbing out of a fullscreen game. my home built tower is not overclocked and temps look…

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts quick poll for ppl using NVIDIA hardware for 3D rendering: has GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 302.80 treated u well? Ive seen a couple of complaints online, but complaints are always louder than happy users. Id like to…

ok weird one short story: Wi Fi breaks after resuming from hibernate, and only a reboot fixes it. Longer story: the 2 in 1 tabelt uses Modern Standby, I think, cuz it never realy turns off when the lid is closed ;) After the AOpen DEX4502 Intel Lan Driver…

ok so im genuinely confused, picture on my soundbar is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. It started right after teh Intel driver update. Ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything i know of. Theres simply no HDMI output to…

i keep seeing PCI Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Controller on fresh installs and i never know which driver it needs. this time its on my mini PC, can someone explain how to identify it using hardware IDs and where to get the right driver safely?…

ugh. im on an old studio branch and everythnig works for competitive gaming xD now NVIDIA has GeForce Quadro Driver 337.12 Beta for FreeBSD 64 bit out and the app keeps nagging me. part of me wants teh fixes, part of me remembers the last time an update gave…

i was watching a video in the browser on my gaming laptop when the whole screen just went black, audio kept going for a second, then stuttered, then the picture came back with a little notification that the display driver had stopped responding and…

USB is acting cursed on my work PC. a USB hub drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart. i updated teh chipset driver from ASRock last week, and thats when it started. i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB controller shows a…

hmmmm ok im planning a fresh install on my desktop and wondering how to handle storage drivers this time. Should i go with teh vendors K8V XE RAID Controller Driver and RAID/VMD mode, or AHCI and teh inbox driver?? Priority for me is battery life. What would…

The crackling is making me crazy. It happens on voice calls, and gets worse the more the PC is doing... i recorded a short clip and you can clearly hear the pops. timeline: Creative P17 Audio Driver update from Gigabyte, then crackles teh same day, i tried…

Movie night, everyones on the couch, i hit play on the PC hooked up to the projector and.., silence. Picture perfect, zero sound 🙏 The only thing Id changed was installing Intel Arc Graphics Windows DCH Driver 31.0.101.5085 5122 eralier that day. the HDMI…

im literally losing my mind here every time Im in a flight sim, somewhere around loading into a match, the game freezes and closes with this: the error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. the graphics card is obviously still in the PC. this only started…

after installing NVIDIA GeForce iCafe Graphics Driver 376.11 Ive had stuttering in every game on my prebuilt tower. fine, Ill just roll it back... except the Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when i uninstalled it Windows put a driver back on its…

ugh. okay, this is dirving me nuts 🤦 black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened 😭 then this pops up: its always while wkaing the monitor from stanbdy. my gaming laptop is not overclocked and temps look…

general question for the people here: when a new audio driver makes things worse (jack detection broke, in my case), how do u get the old one back?? im on a desktop running something from macOS. id love a method that doesnt involve skecthy driver download…

guys pls help since updating the grapihcs driver my AV receiver gets no audio over HDMI at all. i tried another HDMI cable, another port, and restarting the AV receiver... in Sound settings the HDMI device doesnt even appear, and in Device Manager i dont see…

Every time Im in a racing sim, somewhere around about 20 minutes in, the game freezes and closes with this: the error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. the graphics card is obivously still in teh PC. this only started after I installed AMD Catalyst…

guys pls help my label printer worked perfectly with the Canon PIXMA MP130 All in One Driver 12.13.1 driver i installed from their site. then Windows Update did its thing overnight, and now the paper trays are wrong. when i checked the printer properties,…