Most laptops had a support cycle of one year (most still do) meaning that you were stuck with outdated GPU drivers very quickly.Hires direct driver in USB Audio Player PRO I remember when every OEM had their specific drivers for the same mobile GPU and there was no generic driver, gosh it was a mess back then.
nVidia and AMD GPUs in paticular should use the generic drivers, they have some of kind of partnership with most notebook OEMs so that the OEMs design their notebooks to work with the generic drivers.
Dell's solution: run on the stock MS AHCI driver.ĭoes that mean that you should always update the driver if everything is working fine, not really, but you should consider getting the drivers directly from the component manufacturer when you want to update. A couple of months ago, the latest RST driver from Dell for the M6700 and Windows 8 brokes the eSATA connectivity, the latest from Intel didn't. Regarding OEM drivers having bugs, here's an example. I can see a reason to get OEM drivers if those received ISV certification on certain mobile workstations and the generic ones didn't, but that is a very specific case. It also doesn't behave well, and hijacks Wireless Zero Configuration (because it has XP SP2 to support), while Intel's latest behaves seamlessly.Īgreed, the days of OEMs tweaking specific drivers are mostly over. Most recent innovations and features presentįor example, the latest Dell-supported wifi driver for the Latitude E6400 is a heap of shit and contains a ton of bugs which Intel fixed nearly two years ago. Supported by that reseller, in so much as "support" exists or is useful - we cannot all reinstall the OS for a minor driver bug which the manufacturer has had fixed for years.ģ. Was Dell to alter that in any way, Windows would not install the driver due to the signature not matching.Ģ. The driver binaries, however, are signed by Intel, official Intel versions, untouched, unmolested and unmodified. (Dell is really lazy about this and usually just repackages Intel's stuff verbatim) Maybe Dell has played with the driver config a little or trimmed the distribution to not include drivers for hardware which the machine doesn't have. Shit goes wrong, you've got Dell technical support to help. It's not even close to being right.ĭell supplies drivers which Dell supports. Why? Because DELL may have customized the driver and INTEL's driver is just a generic version even if it might be newer.
INTEL recommends that I use the OEM's (Dell) drivers rather than INTEL's drivers REGARDLESS of version date. My DELL computer has an INTEL SATA/AHCI Controller.
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