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Updating drivers regularly offers two great advantages for your PC:
You update the functionality available to your system; and
You fix bugs, errors and conflicts that might be associated with certain drivers.
Graphics cards can cause particular problems for your PC, causing video freezes and
“blue screens.” The problem here may be that, due to their complexity and resource
intensiveness, a 1st generation driver might be buggy and interact badly with other
drivers on your system. You will need to ensure you have the latest “fixed” drivers to stop
these problems.
Alternatively if new features are added to the video card you will need to update drivers
to keep pace with the improvements. Another situation is when Microsoft updates
DirectX, in which case you will also need to update your drivers to take advantage of
these improvements.
When and why do driver problems occur?
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Microsoft point out that drivers “…operate in a highly privileged environment
and can cause disaster if they get things wrong…”.
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