Issues with drivers and keeping up to date

[Juno]

Hi guys,

could someone let me know how important it is to keep drivers up to date and if there is a convenient way to do this?


Im just on a new windows 10 pc with a nice graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (MSI)
and I wanted to test it, by downloading unigine heaven benchmark

https://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/heaven/

and when I installed it, it didnt run, got some .dll missing errors. (I think)

I wonder if this is to do with out of date drivers, something to do with directx or opengl, Im just not sure.

any advice?

Many thanks,
Juno

[Timster]

Try downloading and installing Visual c++ from Microsoft and see if that clears up that error when running Heaven.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

Windows 10 usually does a pretty good job of keeping your system drivers updated however I would use NVIDIA GeForce Experience to keep your graphics driver up to date.

[Juno]

(11-21-2016, 01:28 PM)Timster Wrote:  Try downloading and installing Visual c++ from Microsoft and see if that clears up that error when running Heaven.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

Windows 10 usually does a pretty good job of keeping your system drivers updated however I would use NVIDIA GeForce Experience to keep your graphics driver up to date.

Thanks, I'll give it a go,
Does that make any difficult to reverse/ irreversible changes to my setup? or is it likely to stop anything else that works right now from working?

[Compton]

just create a system restore before doing any changes