How do I check if my vid drivers are up to date?

Post » Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:40 am

Title is self explanatory. I have never updated my GPU drivers since I got this laptop, and I want to know if they're up to date so that I'm getting the best performance.

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Emma Pennington
 
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Post » Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:53 pm

Depending on the card manufacturer, you should be able to check for updates using the Nvidia Control Panel or Catalyst Control for AMD cards. These will link you directly to the new driver packages so you can download and then install them. For best results, look for the option to do a clean installation, which will remove any old drivers from your system before installing the new ones.

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Jordan Moreno
 
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Post » Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:56 pm

Well the question really is, goes your laptop have an actual GPU in it or is it an intel chip?

But in either case, you can find the driver version regardless of brand in the display tab of a dxdiag report.

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