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update now or stay on the driver my pc came with? the eternal nvidia question !!

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  1. Kenji Kim
    @kkim_20

    so annoyed rn genuine question about update philosophy... my PC is stable on the driver my PC came with. the new ForceWare Beta Driver lists fixes that dont really affect me, do u update anyway for security and compatibility, or do you only update when a game or app needs it? i mostly do video editing.. :/ i am curious how other people handle this, especially anyone who depends on their PC for work and cannot afford a broken evening.

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  2. Noor Lopez
    @nlopez

    ok but how bad would a day of downtime be for your movies? ??

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  4. Maya
    @buffer_gremlin

    Keep a short log of what driver ure on and when u changed it (pnputil /enum-drivers shows installed packages and dates). when smth breaks later, youll know if the timing matches. good luck man!

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  5. Esme Walsh
    @thread_deck

    oh also unrelated but anyone elses coffee machine also judging them today. have u checked ur stability settings? mine were reset after an update

    somewhere an AI is confidently telling someone the wrong fix rn

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  6. Felix S.
    @cronpilot-3gi

    for me it was teh cache. swapped it and boom, fixed worked for me anyway 馃し

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  7. Cyrus L.
    @clund_40
    in reply to @cronpilot-3gi

    yeahhh for movies, stability matters more than teh nweest game optimizations. if theres a separate stbale/studio/recommended branch, thats usually teh better fit.

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  8. Soren Fischer
    @soren.fischer8

    Driver updates do sometimes include security fixes, so I wouldnt stay on a very old version forever. But waiting a week or two after release to see if a hotfix appears is perfectly reasonable. hope that helps :)

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  9. Hana Fontaine
    @hana.fontaine

    hmm idk "If it works, dont touch it" is fine for a while, but eventually a game or app will require a newer driver and youll be jumping several verisons at once, which is riskier. but hey ymmv

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