eli5 What actually does video card drivers, do?

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and why do I need updates occassionally?

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In the context of computers, drivers are software that make it possible for one software to talk to a device. With video cards, they allow the computer’s operating system send commands to the video card. You can think of it like an interpreter between two people speaking different languages.

Driver updates can provide performance updates, fix bugs, or add new features that make it possible to use the latest features of new software like games. It’s a bit like having the interpreter take a language course to expand their vocabulary and fix grammar mistakes they used to make before.

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