Re: CRAP Poll #Banana72: Quality of Drivers

It depends which hardware parts. A & B. Prereleases are rare unless they fix my issue(s).


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

It's been a while since we did one of this. How about we do another?

'Round-about a year ago, I asked you how often you update your video
card drivers. Here's a related Completely Random and Pointless poll:

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Having decided to update your drivers, which version do you pick:

       a) The most cutting-edge release-version drivers
          available. I want every nano-second of
          possible optimization!

       b) The most recent stable 'studio' drivers that
          reputedly have the least problems

       c) The beta drivers, because I want to see what's
          coming next

       d) The drivers recommended/supplied by my OS or OEM

       e) I use a very specific version, even if its years
          old, because of reasons.

       f) Weren't you listening to my answer last year? I
          never upgrade my drivers!!1!

       g) I haxor my own drivers, like a real computer user
          should! (alternately: I use teletype so don't need
          a video-card driver)

       h) What's a driver?

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When I actually do get around to updating my drivers (which isn't that
often), I almost always pick option B. I'm not interested in speed as
much as stability; after all I know it's going to be a while before I
get around to updating again, and any speed boosts I get from
optimizations probably won't benefit me very long. But crashes are
forever. ;-)

What's your choice?

(and before you ask, yes, I was inspired to write this CRAP poll write
after updating the drivers on my own PC ;-)

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