LCD Monitor Drivers

banja · 29 Nov 2009 at 05:46

I've just purchased my first LCD monitor after having always used a CRT.

I'm waiting for the thing to be delivered, so to become familiar I DLd the manual to have a read. It seems the monitor (all LCDs?) comes with a driver CDROM.

Will this driver be necessary? Is it generally accepted that provided drivers should be installed?? Will it work without them? Is there anything else I need to know??

I'm on XP sp3 btw.

Thanks in advance

banja · 30 Nov 2009 at 17:23

Tough crowd!

reflux · 30 Nov 2009 at 17:23

I never bother installing the driver, Vista and upwards will do it for you anyway. Not sure what difference it makes as it works fine without it.

banja · 30 Nov 2009 at 18:08

Thanks

John24 · 30 Nov 2009 at 18:29

Yeah it's just for the monitor properties in device manager AFAIK.

craig3000 · 30 Nov 2009 at 18:40

You don't need drivers for a monitor/tv

PhillyDee · 30 Nov 2009 at 19:19

Its normally just a colour profile.
It will work fine without.

banja · 1 Dec 2009 at 19:52

Thanks guys. Too late though, I'd installed them anyway.

clown_abhi · 2 Dec 2009 at 00:15

Drivers designed for monitors contain color profiles which in some cases are custom done by the company to show the best settings for RGB. So, its always good to use it rather than not.