Looking for Software tool that helps streamline making sure all drivers/apps are upto date

[HausOfLandau]

I have a custom built Windows Rig, and I hate how I have to regularly open Geforce Experience, my motherboard, peripherals and a few other update tools to make sure everything is up to date for key drivers and software. has anyone found a tool or piece of software that helps streamline this, essentially a Ninite type thing that will go through and update the stuff you want for you?  Many of these apps do not have auto-update features.

[GoodBytes]

2 minutes ago, JonTheGayNerd said:

I have a custom built Windows Rig, and I hate how I have to regularly open Geforce Experience, my motherboard, peripherals and a few other update tools to make sure everything is up to date for key drivers and software. has anyone found a tool or piece of software that helps streamline this, essentially a Ninite type thing that will go through and update the stuff you want for you?  Many of these apps do not have auto-update features.

Yea. It's called Windows Update

[Princess Luna]

It's called Windows Update?

 

Careful with softwares that claim to update drivers for you like iobit driver boost and many others, these programs are entirely what you'd call placebo effects and might actually break stuff in the long run.

[Slottr]

Your motherboard drivers and such are automatically updated by windows, really the only thing you need to look after is your gpu drivers. GeForce Experience gives you a notification anyway, so you wouldnt be solving problems finding some 3rd party program to manage them

[TVwazhere]

Just now, GoodBytes said:

Yea. It's called Windows Update

 

Windows recently has been giving me notifications for some programs (not all, but some) which are actually pretty handy. I dont know if I've seen them for NVIDIA drivers though.

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'd also argue in favor of letting Windows Update do its thing, since it's likely that if you actually need the driver, it'll provide it for you.

 

I treat drivers as the foundation of the system. If there's nothing wrong with them, there's no point in updating them. They also don't provide any performance benefit unless it's specifically stated to do such. For example, NVIDIA provides release notes for every driver release, which includes which games had improvements. The drivers will only improve performance for those games, nothing more. Another thing they contain are things the driver fixed, known issues that they've yet to find a solution for, and issues outside of their control.

[GoodBytes]

24 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Windows recently has been giving me notifications for some programs (not all, but some) which are actually pretty handy. I dont know if I've seen them for NVIDIA drivers though.

Yup. They are very very few manufcatures stuck in early 2000's, not deliving updates to Microsoft servers for the company to distribute them to all. Creative Labs, is an example of such company (which I don't understand as they all they do is put load on their servers, costing more money then anything Microsoft charges (Microsoft also certifies drivers)). But beside those select few... special...hardware, Windows Updarte deliver updates for all hardware old and new.

 

Nvidia/AMD deliver updates very frequently, usually with new big game title releases, so you may be a few versions behind if you only use Windows Update due to the driver certification program., and may miss on some game performance optimizations design for those games if you don't.. but never the end of the world per se if you don't update. The game will work regarless. This is just Nvidia and AMD doing an extra mile for its consumers.

[Yongtjunkit]

 

On 4/12/2019 at 10:53 PM, JonTheGayNerd said:

I have a custom built Windows Rig, and I hate how I have to regularly open Geforce Experience, my motherboard, peripherals and a few other update tools to make sure everything is up to date for key drivers and software. has anyone found a tool or piece of software that helps streamline this, essentially a Ninite type thing that will go through and update the stuff you want for you?  Many of these apps do not have auto-update features.

That’s the best way to do it safely without causing issues, windows update is another option as well, I think you can set GeForce Experience to auto download and update in background I believe 

 

Theres 3rd party software that would do it but I wouldn’t recommend it based on my experience with it when I used it when Windows 8( not 8.1) on a brand new laptop 5 years ago, it causes BSOD on my laptop. Windows 8 was about a year old in late 2013 (approximately)