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And before you say windows 8/10, no. I sometimes work with older cards on this testbench and some of them do not have drivers for windows 10 or 8. I am running windows 7.

 

I work with firepro, quadro, radeon, and geforce cards. 

 

Rather than navigating to the website to download drivers, can I just have a program do it for me? Or perhaps just have a bigass folder with installers for every damn card? I have an 80GB SSD and that is all this testbench is for, testing videocards

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Just now, App4that said:

GeForce Experience?

Please elaborate, I have never really used any nvidia cards to any reasonable extent 

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Just now, App4that said:

Once you have the GeForce Experience is automatically downloads any drivers you need for any Nvidia card you have installed. For me anyway, though I haven't tried an older card.

8400gt is my go-to card in the primary slot :3

 

Now for something that will do the AMD cards...

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Just now, App4that said:

Once you have the GeForce Experience is automatically downloads any drivers you need for any Nvidia card you have installed. For me anyway, though I haven't tried an older card.

Well, it used to, but then they added that nonsense where you have to create an account and login... screw that. I just go to the website now 

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Their website is very simple to use when it comes to getting the driver for a gpu. 

 

Simply put, don't be so damn lazy.

 

EDIT: Anyway once you download a driver, just store it like you said. Then after a while you will have your large library of drivers.

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well, it used to, but then they added that nonsense where you have to create an account and login... screw that. I just go to the website now 

Darn. Looks like I might have to keep a massive folder of these things.

 

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

Each manufacturer has a program that can download and install them all for you.  However, they don't always work.  One that kinda does, but isn't the best is iobit's driver booster.

Googled it, the website description looks like cancer

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Just now, Canio22 said:

Their website is very simple to use when it comes to getting the driver for a gpu. 

 

Simply put, don't be so damn lazy.

Have you ever tried to obtain a driver for an old amd card from their website?

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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Just now, Sauron said:

Have you ever tried to obtain a driver for an old amd card from their website?

nope but if you need literally any nvidia driver is's incredibly easy to find :)

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Have two OS? one for nvida and one for amd?

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Just now, MrUnknownEMC said:

Have two OS? one for nvida and one for amd?

lolololololol

 

Probably not, I havent had any issues in the past with both AMD cards and Nvidia cards in at the same time. This motherboard has no onboard vudeo (which is annoying) but it has two 16X slots. I use an 8400GT in the first slot, dead GPU in the second. Once I get the dead one working, I will remove the 8400GT and put the test card in the primary slot

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7 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Have you ever tried to obtain a driver for an old amd card from their website?

I got an old ATI 4000 card lying around so I decided to google a driver for it, first result: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Driver-Support-for-AMD-Radeon%E2%84%A2-HD-4000,-HD-3000,-HD-2000-and-older-Series.aspx

 

Doesn't to be that hard.

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1 minute ago, Sauron said:

if all you need to test is whether they work or not you could just use the default vga driver, if it outputs a desktop it's most likely just fine.

I need to put them under load. Heavy load. Unengine heaven load. The default VGA drivers are cancer on a stick

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Just now, Canio22 said:

I got an old ATI 4000 car lying around so I decided to google a drive for it, first result: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Driver-Support-for-AMD-Radeon%E2%84%A2-HD-4000,-HD-3000,-HD-2000-and-older-Series.aspx

 

Doesn't to be that hard.

I know, but when I am going through 10+ cards, it gets annoying AF

 

I guess I do have an SSD, so reboots take far less time now

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7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well, it used to, but then they added that nonsense where you have to create an account and login... screw that. I just go to the website now 

Everything takes a login these days. I'm not about to pull the string on that sweater.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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1 minute ago, App4that said:

Everything takes a login these days. I'm not about to pull the string on that sweater.

in that case it's a great program.  It will automatically notify you when a driver is available, and when it is, one click will tell it to start downloading it, and another click will install it once it's ready :)  Never had even the slightest issue even once!

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10 hours ago, Canio22 said:

I got an old ATI 4000 card lying around so I decided to google a driver for it, first result: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Driver-Support-for-AMD-Radeon%E2%84%A2-HD-4000,-HD-3000,-HD-2000-and-older-Series.aspx

 

Doesn't to be that hard.

it's not exactly HARD, but the page you linked isn't the download page. It gives you a link to the download page, that you have to scroll down on to find the driver you're looking for. So, google search -> info page -> download page. Could be worse, but if you do this all the time and on an 800x600 screen because you're using the generic driver it gets old real fast.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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