Dell XPS 15 9550 Drivers and Graphic Card Issue?

"that your computer is up to date and as long as you don't have any of those exclamation marks on the device manager?"

That means you have working drivers, all is OK.

"I do have optional updates that I didn't install with this old laptop... but is that necessary or not? Does it hurt if i decide to update the remaining optional updates?"

That is entirely up to you, you won't see anything change.

"How do i make sure all my drivers are up to date?"
"Can someone here confirm to me both the intel hd 530 graphics driver and the nvidia geforce gtx 960m is fully updated?"

Not necessary, as in your other question, you need working drivers.

Updated drivers will not give you anything, probably fixing a bug in some obscure part of the driver and maybe just applicable to more recent hardware. It will not make your Laptop faster.

You have to stop this obsession with updating drivers, it is induced by the Internet in general including the Graphics card manufacturers, gamer forums, games applications etc.

Helmut said:

"that your computer is up to date and as long as you don't have any of those exclamation marks on the device manager?"

That means you have working drivers, all is OK.

"I do have optional updates that I didn't install with this old laptop... but is that necessary or not? Does it hurt if i decide to update the remaining optional updates?"

That is entirely up to you, you won't see anything change.

"How do i make sure all my drivers are up to date?"
"Can someone here confirm to me both the intel hd 530 graphics driver and the nvidia geforce gtx 960m is fully updated?"

Not necessary, as in your other question, you need working drivers.

Updated drivers will not give you anything, probably fixing a bug in some obscure part of the driver and maybe just applicable to more recent hardware. It will not make your Laptop faster.

You have to stop this obsession with updating drivers, it is induced by the Internet in general including the Graphics card manufacturers, gamer forums, games applications etc.

Thanks. But how do I know for sure all my drivers are up to date though?


Because when I check the GPU 1 which is the Nvidia Geforce GTX 960M on the task manager, the driver version it shows is 26.21.144270. That seem to be the same when checking my xps 9550 on the dell driver site? If i were to right click on Nvidia panel, then go to help and system information, it show Driver Version 442.70. Is that updated or not? Someone else tells me that seem to be the updated driver for the nvidia.


the Intel HD 530 Graphics Card driver on task manager seem to be 30.0.101.1340. Is that up to date?


My issue is my laptop crashes when I'm doing something intensive etc. So want to know if something is related to this?


For example, I would get a black screen for few seconds on my external monitors.... then the bottom task bar disappears. It would disappear for few minutes. Then it comes back but everything is rearranged so I have to rearrange it. This literally happens every single time Im doing something intensive. I was told that program does crash a lot but could this have something to do with my settings where I could fix it?


I notice dwm.exe does get high as well. I see there is option to set it to normal or below normal or low. Thoughts on that? It is set to high. However I did notice whenever I restart the laptop, it always go back to high? Should this be changed to not high?


The thing is my laptop crashes every single time I use that program when doing something intensive. So I might have to get a new laptop unless I can fix this issue. Does the black screen for few seconds and taskbar disappearing and coming back minutes later mean anything? Anyone heard of this? Most of the time, it doesn't require a restart etc.