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. Compy tracks your driver age and tells you when it's getting old — newer isn't always magic, but very old is a real flag.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 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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