How the hell do they will work? What do they do? Why do I need to update them for certain games or applications to work? I like to think I know a decent amount about personal computers but I have no idea. There was a game on my computer that wouldn’t play when I opened it and the game would crash every time. I updated my drivers and it ran with no issue. The game never had any updates and I never changed any parts of my computer why did the game randomly stop working with no changes? Why does updating drivers work to fix it and what do they do?
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Drivers are the “user manual” for your hardware. Your OS uses the “user manual” to do what it needs to with your new hardware.
Sometimes the instructions in the old manual are slightly wrong and lead to unintended behavior, so you print a second edition of the manual, with a better set of instructions on how to perform a task.
“Example: to connect two pieces of wood, use a hammer and a nail”
But the nail doesn’t grip well, overtime they come loose. Second edition:
“For improved grip between the two pieces of wood use a cordless driver and wood screws”
The analogy of the driver being a “user manual” is an over simplification, but works in this case.
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