Drivers!

[Festive]

Hello, my question is simple. When is it good to update drivers for a GPU. Considering there has been talk about new Nvidia drivers bricking cards and shitting on performance, I guess it isn't smart to blindly update drivers right? But either way, on my 960, I am still on the 353.54 driver since I reinstalled Windows a few weeks ago. Should I get the latest driver or am I fine considering I haven't seen any performance decrease in the games I play. (CSGO/GTA V/etc.)

[Hans Christian | Teri]

If everything works I see no real reason to update your drivers, except if a massive performance increase in games you play have been announced.

[ChrisCross]

i havent been on the nvidia side for a while. do you have seperate long-term and beta drivers too?

[Naeaes]

If it works, fix it until it doesn't.

Just leave it. Windows and Geforce will automatically update/recommend to update the drivers that they see fit to update. If you're battling with a specific problem or are trying out a brand new game, look into manual updates or rolling back. But other than that, just leave it.

[Imakuni]

1 hour ago, Festive said:

Hello, my question is simple. When is it good to update drivers for a GPU. Considering there has been talk about new Nvidia drivers bricking cards and shitting on performance, I guess it isn't smart to blindly update drivers right? But either way, on my 960, I am still on the 353.54 driver since I reinstalled Windows a few weeks ago. Should I get the latest driver or am I fine considering I haven't seen any performance decrease in the games I play. (CSGO/GTA V/etc.)

Upgrading can prove quite handy. The current version, 365.19, is quite okay... though wait for the next release, as it'll fix a few things that are still keeping me on 362

[BrightCandle]

If you haven't noticed the entire world of software is more or less on continuous updates nowadays. A big part of that is security patches but everything has also gone agile developed and hence lots of updates. The best version any company puts out is more or less their last version unless they mess up. Considering the combination of things its always the right thing to stay up to date, but just occasionally they will make a mistake and put out something bad and you'll end up rolling back, but it happens so rarely.

[ivan134]

Even if the drivers were fine, there's no reason to upgrade drivers unless it brings increased performance to a game you're playing. So just stay on the drivers you're using now.