"Now we're still updating drivers. Weren't the problems supposed to have been fixed many years ago?" Your statement makes sense if you believe that graphics ca

"Now we're still updating drivers. Weren't the problems supposed to have been fixed many years ago?" Your statement makes sense if you believe that graphics card manufacturers were still working on drivers for 15 year old cards and 15 year old APIs. Manufacturers are always putting out new cards, and there are new APIs to support. Writing drives for dozens of chips spanning multiple generations of graphics architectures to work on multiple OSs and supporting multiple APIs is incredibly challenging. Even if there was just one chip and one OS and one API to support, getting maximum performance across multiple applications is non-trivial. Drivers have a lot of heuristics to try to maximize performance, and manufacturers invest heavily in tuning those heuristics even to specific games to get the best results. If you aren't a gamer, then, yeah, you can run three year old drivers and it won't affect the speed of scrolling the text in your browsers or whatever.