OCD on drivers?

[Gregster]

I have been reading lots of threads lately about changing this with Radeon pro/Nvidia inspector and changing cfg files and alter this, install that but 99.99 (reccuring)% of the time, I don't touch anything.

This is how I do it (when installing drivers):

1. Download drivers and save (handy to keep)
2. Install drivers/Custom/Clean install.
3. Start NCP and enable SLI and set "span displays with surround"
4. Start a game and see if it is smooth. If time permitting, I check performance against previous drivers.

This is all I do. Am I missing things? Am I lazy?

I never bother to fiddle with settings and leave everything 'as, is' The only time I did have a fiddle was Far Cry 3 and this was because the game wasn't smooth at all. I reinstalled older drivers and enabled SLI with Nvidia Inspector but this didn't make any difference to the smoothness of the game.

How do you do yours?

 

[Gregster]

It is starting to look like I am lazy. All this driver sweeper etc. Not a bad thing to do I guess but still a chore.

 

[Gregster]

DL > Install over the top > Reboot > Play

Been doing this for years, no issues (that everyone else wasn't having)

I have a 2009 install of Windows 7 on one machine that's had dozens of driver installs, at least 5 GPUs including an NV card mixed in with AMD. I just guess some people can get themselves into bother in an empty room

download
install
and play away

Glad I am not alone

 

[Gregster]

1. Download new drivers.
2. Install new drivers.

That is it!

My kind of install.