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Title: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: W7RE on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 10:50:22 AM: I want to update my drivers, but I've heard that the drivers I would get on ATI or Sapphire's sites may be a few updates old. Is there a better tplace I should check for driver updates?
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: Pugnate on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 11:37:12 AM: In my experience, the fastest updates always came from ATi.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: W7RE on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 12:51:18 PM: There was site I used to go to that would have all the latest ones, including beta drivers. this was close to 10 years ago though, I think. Even if I could remember the site name, it's probably not there anymore.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: Pugnate on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 04:25:22 PM: For ATi? Could it be Rage3D?
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: gpw11 on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 04:35:27 PM: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Omega drivers are good as well.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: scottws on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 04:49:25 PM: guru3d?
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: W7RE on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 07:07:17 PM: I don't remember, that could be it. I just got the ones from sapphire's site, which I'm pretty sure are the same ones I already had.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: Xessive on Monday, September 15, 2008, 03:00:12 PM: Tweakguides.com usually lists all sorts of updates relatively fast. Drivers, software updates, game patches, etc.

I usually just go to the manufacturer sites for hardware driver updates.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: ren on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 04:37:33 AM: I don't think I've upgraded my video card drivers for years. I suggest downgrading.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 09:31:10 PM: Haha! Same here. All I could possibly accomplish is to get saddled with a bunch of code that is useless to my older card.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: Ghandi on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 09:36:33 PM: I tried to upgrade my video card drivers a year or so ago and Dell wouldn't let me. I thought I was just stupid at first, so I did a little research. Turns out that people in my situation all have the same problem. I forget exactly what the error message is but it's pretty absurd. I wish I could find the exact reasoning because it was really funny.

I could reformat and get rid of the bullshit but it's not really worth it. I don't really game on this laptop anyways, so it's no big deal.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 10:17:58 PM: I thought about upgrading the drivers on my HP, but then kind of thought about it and was all like "what's the point? The "high end" intel onboard chip sucks balls anyways".
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: Ghandi on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 10:22:01 PM: Well, my laptop actually has an ATI card. I think it's a Radeon Mobility. So I at least assumed that it could be upgraded. With an onboard chip it's kind of a losing battle.
Title: Re: Best place to go for video card drivers?
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 10:32:17 PM: You know, it's pretty easy (but still very expensive) to upgrade laptop CPUs now, why not have the same kind of thing going with GPUs?