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My confusion about Windows 10 and Drivers.
Whenever I install windows 10 on the system, I have difficulty to decide how should I install drivers, and there is a reason for that, in this context I'm talking about pc/laptop which don't have windows 10 drivers on their manufacturer site.
I thought that if windows 10 driver is not present at the manufacturer site then ideal way is to use windows update drivers.
But on some pc, i found that if use windows update drivers then I don't get the expected performance. for example - on an old intel pc which doesn't have graphics card, ( drivers were not available on site) i tried to update graphic/ chipset driver with windows update, and after successful installation, i found that i got the correct resolution and don't have any control panel in tray, but when i played a x264 1080p video, it was lagging. i know that this pc has the capability to play this video very fine, so i uninstalled that driver and installed another driver with snappy driver installer, and after that i found i got the control panel in tray and the video was playing fine.
this leads me to believe that driver update with windows update is not the ideal way.
so what is the ideal way?
let me tell you another example, on a laptop which has an idt audio, and the manufacturer has only listed drivers till windows 8
so I used windows update and didn't find any driver for it.
I used snappy driver installer and I find a driver and installed it, but I didn't get expected improvement in audio quality.
so i uninstalled this driver with the device manager and tried some other 3rd party driver installer like driver easy and driver booster, and noticed that they were unable to get drivers for it.
then i installed windows 8 audio driver the from the manufacturer site and i got the improvement in quality.
this leads me to believe that I cant rely on snappy or any other 3rd party installer.
so how should i update drivers? what is the ideal way?
thanx for reading.