Nvidia driver update for laptop

[Prabhashbhajani]

I have a Legion 5i gaming laptop with GTX 1650 graphics card.

Yesterday Nvidia released new Driver update for Watch Dogs Legion. Should I update the drivers through Geforce Experience as few years back it was like that only the graphics drivers provided by the laptop manufacturer shoul be used in laptops.

Is it safe to update through Geforce Experience or wait and hope that lenovo will some day provide an update for the drivers.

[doomsriker]

4 minutes ago, Prabhashbhajani said:

I have a Legion 5i gaming laptop with GTX 1650 graphics card.

Yesterday Nvidia released new Driver update for Watch Dogs Legion. Should I update the drivers through Geforce Experience as few years back it was like that only the graphics drivers provided by the laptop manufacturer shoul be used in laptops.

Is it safe to update through Geforce Experience or wait and hope that lenovo will some day provide an update for the drivers.

I always just get the driver from the Nvidea website directly. Laptop Manufacturers drivers are more of an Intel HD graphics comparability thing not usually applicable to modern discrete GPUs. 

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, doomsriker said:

I always just get the driver from the Nvidea website directly. Laptop Manufacturers drivers are more of an Intel HD graphics comparability thing not usually applicable to modern discrete GPUs. 

Well my laptop manufacturer has the driver for my gpu on their website and recommends using that. 

And coincidentally Nvidia also recommends to use the driver from the manufacturers website. 

 

And even more coincidentally, my games run way better with the (several years old at this point) Nvidia driver from LENOVO.

[doomsriker]

3 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Well my laptop manufacturer has the driver for my gpu on their website and recommends using that. 

And coincidentally Nvidia also recommends to use the driver from the manufacturers website. 

 

And even more coincidentally, my games run way better with the (several years old at this point) Nvidia driver from LENOVO.

Note the word “modern” in my response.... 

 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/modern

[Mark Kaine]

5 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

Note the word “modern” in my response.... 

 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/modern

What do you mean, it's slow as hell but it's not that old!

 

3 hours ago, Prabhashbhajani said:

update through Geforce Experience

No. 

 

Get it from Lenovo or Nvidia, but do not use GFE to update drivers. It's

[doomsriker]

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

What do you mean, it's slow as hell but it's not old!

 

No. 

 

Get it from Lenovo or Nvidia, but do not use GFE to update drivers. It's

You literally just said that the driver is several years old at this point... how long before the release of your laptop was this mythical driver forged? I personally have a older 2010 ASUS laptop running an experimental windows 10 driver I had to track down on AMD’s website that had a “at your own risk” warning and luckily netted me some extra frames after taking four literal hours to install. I understand that older laptop GPUs can require special drivers for comparability; OP however was asking about a modern laptop with a shrunk down desktop GPU which is becoming the norm these days as desktop GPUs get smaller and have lower TDPs.... Thus the insertion of the aforementioned word “modern”. Must we go on like this my PCMR friend?   

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, doomsriker said:

You literally just said that the driver is several years old at this point...

It's still "modern"... 

 

1 hour ago, doomsriker said:

Must we go on like this my PCMR friend?