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a 44GB torrent with all kinds of drivers, from SATA controllers to NIC to GPU My first reaction was "that's an absolutely insane amount of drivers", but then I
by userbinator 2y ago
a 44GB torrent with all kinds of drivers, from SATA controllers to NIC to GPU
My first reaction was "that's an absolutely insane amount of drivers", but then I realised that some GPU and printer drivers are already around 1GB.
- parineum 2y agoI didn't know what's in that package/torrent but those 1gb drivers are drivers AND applications which are frequently not required at all. How much of the Nvidia driver is just GFE?
- WorldMaker 2y agoGFE and its replacement "nVidia App" are bloated and large, but the drivers themselves are still 600-900MBs each. That "optimized for Game X" thing where GFE/nVidia App brags that the driver has all sorts of custom relationships with all the recent exciting games is strangely literal in most cases because the drivers include a frankly wild amount of application/game-specific microcode/optimizations.