Windows How often do you upgrade your GPU drivers?

How often do you upgrade your GPU drivers?
Do you install beta drivers and hot fix drivers as soon as they come out, even if you are not playing the games they target?
Do you stick with official (non-beta) releases?
Do these drives help at all with less recent to older games?

I'm curious, do these 'hot fixes' only effect the listed games or do they effect general performance.
Do driver releases in general improve the performance of older games or do they only target newer releases.

I don't play a ton of new games, and a driver update requires a couple of restarts as I always use DDU which seems to update more often than the GPU drivers. I keep a lot of things running so it can be inconvenient. I upgraded to 16GB so I don't need to close word, excel, PDF, mendeley, ect. while gaming.

 

I rarely update my drivers, but then again I'm using a pretty old GPU so I'm unlikely to get the benefit from new drivers in any case.

 

I upgrade everytime nvidia releases a new one, unless its one of those dodgy ones that overheats the card that is.

 

As a rule I'm normally one or two versions behind the current - Nvidia seem to release a specific game title so called optimised driver every few weeks of late

The end result being it's normally been rushed and is glitchy.

 

Whenever they are beta tested by others to be stable

 

Do those 'specific game title so called optimised driver' only effect the performance of those titles or does it have a global effect?

 

I update drivers when I have to, e.g. if I'm running software that requires the latest drivers. Of late I've basically installed the latest drivers at the time of installing Windows, and I leave it at that.

 

Usually every time I reboot - so roughly every 3 months.
As I don't really play the newest games (because of the bugs and prices), I dont bother to even check drivers improvements for a specific game.

 

When the new driver notification ops. I never muck without with external 'driver cleaners' and the like, so I've never had an issue with a 'bad' driver upgrade.

 

I generally update a few days after the official ones come out. I used to do it ASAP, but then a little while ago one (not even a beta one!) nearly killed my PC and caused a lot of grief. Nvidia released a fixed version a couple of days later, but it was enough for me to just wait and see from now on! If a new driver is out for more than a day and I don't see any news about it causing issues, usually good to go.

I have a pretty old card so the updates don't really change much for me, but one of my jobs is testing games and they like us to have the newest drivers to rule that out as an issue when testing.

 

Only bother if a new game needs it. So, not often these days!

 

I upgrade mine maybe every one or two months.
There isn't usually a great need to upgrade drivers as I don't get many new games until they're knocked down in price later down the line.

 

when i get benefits from them. ie improvements in games i play.

 

When Nvidia tell me there is a new one available in the taskbar

 

Every so often. Basically if a game whinges about it, or I remember. So about every three months.

 

Since I only boot Windows when I feel like gaming, it seems I update GPU drivers every time I game.

 

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If I buy a new game and a driver comes out for that game I will update. Other than that? as little as I possibly have to tbh.

Never worry about my GPUs overheating as none of them are on their stock fans. All are under water of sorts (be it an AIO or proper water).