I’ve been gaming for almost 3 decades now and i’ve seen this time and time again, where i will run a graphically intensive program and suddenly it’s just choppy as shit and running bad. Sure enough though no matter which brand of card i’m using or how new it is, if i go to the gpu program theres a driver update. So clearly this is too much to be a coincidence, so what’s happening here? Surely AMD and Nvidia aren’t both throttling your performance to get you to update right? That’s ridiculous. Can someone smarter than me explain what might be going on? Perhaps the games themselves are updated with new libraries for the cards and those need to stay in sync or something

  • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Sometimes updates are partially installed before you see the notification. That breaks functionality sometimes because they’re trying to make the updates go faster with less down time. It’s really annoying.