and why do I need updates occassionally?
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So, drivers are how your computer talks to hardware inside it, like the video card. The video card is used to offload a bunch of difficult math that the processor can’t be bothered with.
Driver updates happen when someone figures out a more efficient way for the driver to do that math, or adds a different way for your video games to ask for the math to be done. Up-to-date drivers typically give you performance improvements, but you don’t really -need- to update unless you’re trying to run a game that keeps crashing because it’s asking for math the driver can’t handle.
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