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GPU drivers are some of the most complex and frequently updated pieces of code in the industry. I blame the manufacturers for failing to deliver stable product
by greggsy 1y ago
GPU drivers are some of the most complex and frequently updated pieces of code in the industry.
I blame the manufacturers for failing to deliver stable products, rather than putting all the blame on windows for delivering drivers to you that were submitted to them by the manufacturer through WHQL arrangements.
- cubefox 1y agoGPU drivers also routinely fix buggy or inefficient shader code in individual computer games, at least for popular ones. GPU drivers are doing more than what would reasonably expected of them.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoAnd that’s when what is reasonably expected of them is an optimizing compiler for multiple languages, an execution environment providing isolation among instances of arbitrary mutually untrusting code (generated by that compiler), a resource scheduler, etc.
- zelphirkalt 1y agoI think this is somewhat misunderstanding my complaint. When I download the AMD drivers directly from AMD websites, they are fine mostly. It is just that Windows every now and then decides to replace them with the shit that comes with Windows update. I never tell it to do that and it acts in such an idiotic way.