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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 1111192" data-attributes="member: 39702">There are two types of drivers:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">software drivers</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">hardware drivers</li>
</ol>Software drivers are the one that help program work normally and enable deeper integration into system. Those .dll files your antivirus software installed into System32 folder... yeah, some of these are actually drivers. These should absolutely be updated as they can easily be exploited; that&#039;s why you should always keep your programs and apps up-to-date.Hardware drivers, on the other hand, are just instructions to the PC for the device you connected to it. These don&#039;t necessary need to be updated because they aren&#039;t widely exploited and they don&#039;t really do nothing. In fact, hardware drivers should be updated only if you experience issues because just casually updating them whenever new version is released can and will cause you problems.For example: any newer Realtek Audio driver than 6.0.9689.1 on my Legion doesn&#039;t work correctly. Sound literally randomly stops, I can&#039;t play anything and opening the volume control freezes that part of the OS. The only way to get the sound back is restart.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 1111192, member: 39702"] There are two types of drivers: [LIST=1] [*]software drivers [*]hardware drivers [/LIST] Software drivers are the one that help program work normally and enable deeper integration into system. Those .dll files your antivirus software installed into System32 folder... yeah, some of these are actually drivers. These should absolutely be updated as they can easily be exploited; that's why you should always keep your programs and apps up-to-date. Hardware drivers, on the other hand, are just instructions to the PC for the device you connected to it. These don't necessary need to be updated because they aren't widely exploited and they don't really do nothing. In fact, hardware drivers should be updated only if you experience issues because just casually updating them whenever new version is released can and will cause you problems. For example: any newer Realtek Audio driver than 6.0.9689.1 on my Legion doesn't work correctly. Sound literally randomly stops, I can't play anything and opening the volume control freezes that part of the OS. The only way to get the sound back is restart. [/QUOTE]

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