Gamers make up a huge portion of the home computer market. One of their big demands is graphics support. For these users, nothing is worse than a game that doesn’t work well on their home computer system. Graphics adapter manufacturers release firmware, software and driver updates to make sure the gaming experience is good. Now Steam, a game software producer and AMD have teamed up to make sure that gamers get the driver updates they need directly through the game client.

Automatic Driver Updating Is A Must

If you take care of computers – even if you just take care of your own – you know what a pain finding, downloading and installing Windows driver updates can be. Sometimes, you don’t even know there’s a new driver update until something breaks. Other times, you know there’s a big problem and you need to wait for the manufacturer to come up with a solution.

Any tool that can automate the location, acquisition and installation of hardware drivers is a big plus in my book. The Steam/AMD client will only help out Steam gamers who have AMD graphics boards installed in their computers. For a more balanced solution, I always use Driver Detective.

Driver Detective works on any Windows computer and with any installed hardware. You simply configure Driver Detective to find the right drivers for your hardware and Driver Detective will do the rest. Installation and configuration couldn’t be easier, and Driver Detective is always working to ensure that you get the driver updates your system needs.

Better still, Driver Detective monitors the performance of the installed drivers. If a driver file becomes corrupted, Driver Detective will unload the bad driver and install a fresh copy. No more spending hours trying to figure out what’s going on with your drivers. Just install Driver Detective and it works.

The ease of installation and simplicity of use is what makes Driver Detective so valuable to me. I can install it, configure it and forget it. My computer always gets the driver updates it needs when it needs them. I don’t have to do any of the heavy lifting.

Driver Detective keeps a backup copy of the correct drivers available so it doesn’t even have to download a fresh copy if something goes wrong. It also backs up the registry before installing new drivers, so you can roll back to a previous state if you don’ t like the effects of an automatic update. How cool is that?
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