Laptop drivers question

[CrisR82]

Probably a silly question but I was wondering about the best practice for laptop/ultrabook drivers is these days - the laptop is using an AMD Ryzen CPU with the Radeon iGPU it comes with, the manufacturer (MSI) provides Chipset / GPU drivers on their site but they are labeled as released in May 2021, while I'm fairly certain that AMD has probably released something newer by now - should I be looking on AMD's site for something more up to date, or sticking to the OEM's provided drivers instead?

[Bombastinator]

48 minutes ago, CrisR82 said:

Probably a silly question but I was wondering about the best practice for laptop/ultrabook drivers is these days - the laptop is using an AMD Ryzen CPU with the Radeon iGPU it comes with, the manufacturer (MSI) provides Chipset / GPU drivers on their site but they are labeled as released in May 2021, while I'm fairly certain that AMD has probably released something newer by now - should I be looking on AMD's site for something more up to date, or sticking to the OEM's provided drivers instead?

A tough one.  Laptops can have special drivers for just that model.  It’s not as common as it used to be though.  Manufacturers aren’t known for keeping stuff for things they’re no longer making up to date though.  For the video drivers I’d go to Nvidia’s site.  AMD CPUs tend to need to have their bios updated mor e often so I would go to AMD’s site unless you load one and there is a problem at which point I would check our MSI’s site for your laptop.  If it was an intel cpu I’d say MSI’s site unless the was a problem then intel.  Only update if there actually is an issue though.  Flashes are not zero risk unless you have a no-cpu reflashing system like flashback or some such

Edited September 15, 2022 by Bombastinator