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0.1 hrs last two weeks / 224.8 hrs on record (93.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: Nov 13, 2014 @ 1:27am
Updated: Nov 13, 2014 @ 11:21pm

I've been using Driver Fusion for about 8 months and overall I'm quite satisfied with my purchase. I was skeptical at first, but after reading some reviews on Steam I decided to buy it at full price, and I almost never pay full price for software on Steam. I'm by no means a computer enthusiast, but I keep my video card drivers and other basic stuff up to date. I was having some minor sound issues, which Driver Fusion fixed, and my computer (Asus G75VW; GTX670M) has continued running very well.

The beauty of having this on Steam is that you can use it on multiple machines, which is where I feel I've received the most value from this software. My girlfriend's 8 year old son had made a proper mess of his 6 month old laptop. Malware/anti-virus were not cutting it on his machine, but running this software had significant results (2014 Toshiba Win 8 low-mid range laptop). I also used it on my parents e-Machine, which must be atleast 10 years old. I did quite a bit of basic upkeep on that machine so I can't say for sure how well Treexy specifically worked, but it certainly saved me time and looked like some sort of wizardy to my folks.

Ultimately, what really sealed the deal for me was the commitment of the Treexy developers. I have yet to read a problematic/negative review or comment on Steam to which a Treexy developer has not constructively responded (usually within a day or so). I was a little worried about this software damaging or causing issues on my machine, and others have had issues in the past (I've never had any), but I was confident a Treexy developer would see me through any potential issues.

My only nit-pick is I wish they would solve the issue of certain drivers being 'unverified' and flashing a bright red Windows warning when trying to install them. I always click yes and haven't had any issues, but I never feel 100% confident clicking yes when that warning box pops up.
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Developer response:
Treexy  [developer] Posted: Nov 13, 2014 @ 3:37am
Thank you for your review!

Regarding the unverified publisher warnings, you can change the minimum signing level in the settings to authenticode, which should prevent most of these warnings (unfortunately, there is no way to check this with 100% certainty). However, we still have the drivers at signed by default because all drivers are tested on multiple systems before we release them to the public. Added to the fact that you can buy a certificate to sign these drivers for under 100$ and that there are also less drivers available when you change to authenticode, we don't see any real reason to change this default setting.

That said, we are looking into some ways to reduce the number of warnings as we don't really like them either. This is all in very early stages though and we don't have anything concrete yet.