Drivers / driver age
Also searched as: driver · drivers · gpu driver · driver age · graphics driver · game ready driver
What it means
The software that lets Windows and your hardware talk. Graphics drivers especially get regular updates that can add real performance for new games.
More detail
New titles often gain measurable FPS from the launch-day driver, so a stale graphics driver can quietly leave performance on the table. Get them straight from AMD or NVIDIA, not from a third-party "updater" tool. …
In the Blackbook
The deeper explanation continues inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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