Reviews Of Driver Detective

If you’re in any way related to the computer world, and have one at home that you use for more than messenger and verifying emails then you’ve seen how fast things tend to evolve in a period of time. Let’s take the last 5 years. This is the period of time when things have evolved more dramatically than ever. If five years ago we were barely moving to the 64 bit technology and the beginnings of dual core processors, now we have multiple physical processors and multiple cores on a single chip that can easily process hundreds of tasks, smaller and bigger in the same time giving processing power a new name. To keep up with the massive development of processors and ever increasing speed, motherboards, RAM, video boards and so on, had to keep up the pace.

Technology evolution

As a matter of fact, in the last couple of years everything came the other way around, processors were barely keeping up with the humongous explosion of supercharged graphics processors. The Nvidia Tesla (which costs just about as much as a car) video board is living proof of massive parallel processing.

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Naturally, software has evolved beyond everything we thought possible and therefore, the newer, faster, better and stronger boards received better and better drivers to improve communication between the hardware and the operating system. Currently there are hundreds of thousands of drivers launched every year since video boards alone occupy more than 30% of the whole.

Importance of updates

What better way to keep yourself up to date and make sure there are no fallbacks within your system? Updating is a crucial part of keeping your system alive and well. There are tons of advantages that come with updated drivers. First of all, updating drivers for the video board, you can make sure you get the best gaming experience. Updates tend to solve all kinds of bugs and mishaps discovered in previous versions. I gave the video board example since it’s by far the most noticeable.

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Still all of this seems much of a hassle doesn’t it? You need to pay attention when drivers have been updated for your various components. You need to check the manufacturing websites from time to time and see what upgrades have been released, make sure they don’t come in conflict with the drivers you already have and then download and install the upgrades. What if there was a way to get rid of all that, or bettersaid let something else take care of that problem?

Driver Detective

Enter Driver Detective. This is the software that seems to make all those problems go away. No more heading for each manufacturer page to find out whether some driver has been launched or not. No more problems with drivers and compatibility issues.

This program can be your best friend when you need to install Windows on a foreign computer that, to your despair, has absolutely no drivers whatsoever and you need to know what kind of motherboard, what kind of graphics board, sound board, LAN board and so on, so that you can install the proper drivers for it. This is a headache you can easily escape from with Driver Detective.

Drivers and hardware

Getting the right drives for your system is highly important and can sometimes prove to be quite the hassle. First of all, in case you’re dealing with a computer that is missing its own drivers, you need to figure out what’s mounted on it in terms of video, audio, and LAN, the three major needs for a computer to work. In case you don’t have a diagnosis program such as GPU-Z or CPU-Z to give you an idea about what kind of video board and motherboard you’re running on (motherboards usually have embedded LAN and audio boards) to know what drivers are you going to need, then things will turn out to be really difficult. First of all, you will have to dismantle the whole computer in order to have a look at the components inside, to know what you’re dealing with. Then you have to go online and start searching on Google, for the model and the manufacturer.

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Here is usually where all your problems tend to start. First of all you’ve installed the wrong driver since the archive claimed to contain one version while there was another inside and so on. Fortunately Driver Detective takes over for you and does these things automatically. We all know that drivers are the link between the hardware embedded in the computer and the operating system installed. Since most users have Windows as the primary OS we will consider it as an example here. Having the correct set of drivers will allow you to communicate with external devices that are USB plugged. For example the web camera, the scanner, the printer and even the monitor that you’ve got connected require a series of drivers. Fortunately just about every version of Windows beginning with 2000 and above will install some of the drivers automatically.

This is the place where everything gets a bit more confusing, since having the wrong set of drivers will completely cripple the communication between the hardware installed an the operating system, and from there begin another series of problems. Here is where Driver Detective comes into play. It has the capability to automatically detect all the drives that need to be installed in the computer in case they are either missing or outdated.

Driver Detective Basics

Driver Detective is a software that has been specially developed to help you keep tabs on all your drivers, and driver related operations. It has the capability to scan your computer for all the hardware installed in it. Once the operation is done, the program will have a good idea about the components installed in your computer. Then it will head for the second phase of the scanning process. It will start scanning the drivers installed and will compare them with the ones contained in their database.

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Driver detective comes with what is probably the biggest driver database out there. Drivers Headquarters – DHQ the manufacturers that have created Driver Detective have maintained contact with just about every manufacturer that has developed hardware and computer/laptop components. No matter whether you’ve got a MacBook or a Laptop, if it’s AMD or Intel, if you’re running on Nvidia or Ati and so on, Driver Detective will find the best drivers for you. They keep continuous contact with major manufacturers such as: Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Ati, Realtek, Asus, Logitek, Microsoft, Genius, LG, Samsung and many, many others in order to provide latest drivers as easy as clicking a button.

Interface

Driver Detective has a pleasant interface that is user friendly and allows you easy navigation through all the program features. Buttons are fairly big and bright but the download button was unpleasantly small. The informational icons suffered from the same problem. On the other hand, Driver Detective takes little time in scanning your computer. We tested that claim on a configuration that had a freshly installed copy of Windows 7 and were pleasantly surprised when the entire scan took less than a minute. Not to mention that at the end we’ve received a pretty complete report that represented our configuration and what were the missing drivers. It automatically detected the Nvidia GT460 Graphics board and the Realtek audio board mounted on a Gigabyte EP45-DS3R and then started downloading drivers for them. All we had to do is to click on the download buttons and Driver Detective got to work.

What we didn’t like was that they’ve missed the latest release from Nvidia the 280.26 driver for video. They were still going on the 276.11 version. But we’ll consider it as a minor slipup, although they claim to update their database on the spot.

Features

Driver Detective claims to have a database holding over 2.2 million drivers, and more than 640.000 drivers that are especially destined to various computer manufacturers. For example if you take an entire configuration from IBM, Dell, HP and so on, they will have the complete series of drivers needed to fully equip the computer.

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Driver Detective is the first software to ever contain dedicated services for branded computers. Considering that some manufacturers have embedded a series of specially designed drivers for their branded computers, regular ones might come in conflict with some of the hardware embedded. Fortunately Driver Detective is equipped to deal with these particularities.

Conclusion

Driver Detective can be useful when you need to come up with a series of drivers swiftly. The software can easily detect the hardware configuration residing within your computer, but I would rather install the drivers myself and not let the it do it automatically, unless you check the driver version first.