Drivers & Downloads

so annoyed rn touchpad gestures disappeared. three finger swipes doesnt work, and teh Settings page shows only basic options. it happened after a driver update from Shuttle... my gaming laptop has always had the full gesture settings before. is there a way…

genuine questoin about update philosophy. my PC is stable on the driver my PC came with. the new GeForce Graphics Driver 310.61 Beta lists fixes that dont realy affect me. do u update anyway for security and compatibility, or do you only update when a game…

Please tell me this is a driver thing. Glitches in video playback on my gaming laptop, starting right after the GeForce Ion Graphics Driver update: The card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before. Temperatures look normal. Ive tried a…

help!! mixed use PC here: mostly gaming... can someone who has tried both branches share their experience? i'd love to hear whether it made a real difference for streaming and gaming or whether it's mostly markeitng, i am not chasing benchmark numbers. i…

Please tell me this is a driver thing. Glitches on the desktop on my lviing room PC, starting right after the GeForce Quadro Graphics Driver update: the card isn't new but it's never shown anything like this before. temperatures look normal. I've tried a…

ok so im losing this fight with my own computer. the screen resolution reset since the Catalyst Display Driver update. i tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing teh older package over teh top…

help!! every few hours my desktop loses a webcam, and teh USB port stops responding. i'm on the X50 Bios package from Shuttle. i've seen people mention USB selective supsend, power management, and chipset drivers. i'd love to understand which one is most…

Controller woes. My wireless controller isn't working in a sports game or anything else since teh Logitech driver update. It used to be plug and play. I've tried restarting, reinstalling the game, and plugging directly into the PC 😂 I'm out of ideas. I've…

I'm on an old studio branch and everything works for streaming. now NVIDIA has Graphics Display Driver for Solaris 331.31 out and the app keeps nagging me. part of me wants the fixes, part of me remembers the last time an update gave me black screens for a…

help!! question for teh network folks: do u install network drivers from teh chip maker or from your PC maker? Im looking at K8V XE Ethernet Adapter Driver from ASUS for my gaming laptop. My priority is fast downloads. Is there any real risk in going newer…

guys pls help i play an MMO every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. after installing Gigabyte GA 8VM800M 775 MB VIA HyperionPro Driver 5.00, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even…

long time lurker first post lol i finally have AC 97 ALC650 Audio CODECs Driver working nicely, and teh Realtek app offers virtual surround, bass boost, loudness equalization, and more. windows also has its own spatial sound options 😭 for movies on studio…

ok so genuine question about update philosophy. my PC is stable on the driver my PC came with, the new GeForce Ion Graphics Drivers 270.61 Windows XP 32 bit lists fixes that don't really affect me... do you update anyway for sceurity and compatibility, or do…

hmmmm ok every few hours my work PC loses an external drive, and the USB port stops responding. Im on the XH170V package from Shuttle. Ive seen people mention USB selective suspend, power management, and chipset drivers. Id love to understand which one is…

I installed teh AMD Radeon Crimson Edition Graphics Driver 17.4.1 Hotfix update last night and this morning my editing workstation looked like this in 3D apps: Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a…

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my setup is a monitor on a USB C dock, and its been rock solid. since installing ASUS Radeon 8.001 (Windows 98SE/ME) , one of the screens randomly blinks black for a split second. sometimes its every few minutes,…

I'm genuinely confused. Picture on my AV receiver is great, but sound comes out of teh laptop speakers only. it started right after the NVIDIA driver update. ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything I know of. theres simply no HDMI output to…

Sleep on my desktop is broken. It wont wake up. This started right after the chipset package update from ASRock. I realy rely on sleep, since I move between home and office every day. Is there a log or report that shows what woke it up or why it failed? Ive…

Every time Im in a competitive shooter, somewhere around opening the map, the game freezes and closes with this: the error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. the graphics card is obviously still in the PC lmao this only started after I installed ASUS…

I installed the NVIDIA GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 304.48 Beta update last night and this morning my living room PC looked like this in the browser: Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment.…

so annoyed rn ive built and set up a few PCs, and Ive never been sure about chipset drivers. On my laptop after a CPU upgrade, Device Manager shows no unknown devices. Is there still a reason to install Surface Pro 2 Firmware and Driver May? Are there…

guys pls help i play cloud gaming on a mesh network and get occasional ping spikes... realtek released PCIe GBE Family Controller Series Driver 7.049 and Im wondering if updating could help, or if its more likely my router, ISP, or teh game servers... has…

ugh. so this is new. artiafcts on teh desktop, and only since updating TNT/GeForce 44.04 (Windows NT) from Creative. ive already rebooted three times. they dont show up on the BIOS screen as far as I can tell, only once Windows loads. is that a meaningful…

My gaming desktop is performing like it lost a generation. a racing sim stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after the NVIDIA driver update. i'd like to measure this properly instead of going on feel. What's the right way to compare two drivers? i…

Quick question: my PCIe Wi Fi card is from an old build and Id like to use it in my current PC 🔥 ECS offers Nvidia MCP61 Driver. Does anyone have experience with this kinda thing? :D i dont mind some tinkering, but i dont want a security risk or random blue…