With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. With Intel getting more serious about integrated graphics performance, they have started releasing more frequent video driver updates, too.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. NVIDIA and AMD both frequently release new graphics drivers that usually give major performance improvements, particularly for newer games. However, this is not the case with updated drivers for your graphics card, also known as a GPU or video card. So, if things are working okay, it's typically not worth it to bother. They do often fix rare bugs, but to be honest, they just as often introduce new bugs. Updates to your computer’s motherboard, sound card, and network drivers don’t generally give speed improvements. Why You Should Update Your Graphics Drivers Those, we recommend you keep up-to-date, especially if you're a gamer. However, we do make an exception for graphics drivers for your NVIDIA, AMD, or even Intel graphics hardware. Most hardware drivers that come with your computer-or through Windows Update-are fine. We have previously advised you to not compulsively update your drivers, and we stand by that. Related: When Do You Need to Update Your Drivers?
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