Worst thing about Gaming Laptops

[Mr White]

The worst thing about Laptops is the lack of updates even to the newer ones. Example HP laptops have video drivers on some dating back to 2021 and yet they gave 3050 gpu

[オナニー]

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes it does matter. If you baveOEM drivers they will not let you install the standalone drivers. That the whole point. They are different drivers. It will say something regarding incompatible cause the oem driver is installed. Once you uninstall that your good to go. You don't want drivers from the oem or MS. Unless there is a need to use that but on modern laptops since nvidia gt/gtx 500 series this has usually not been the case. However the laptop usually ships with oem drivers which means it will rely on drivers from the oem or MS. The laptop maker basically already shoots you in the foot when you buy any laptop because you are limited on what you can do basically until you wipe those oem drivers off the system.

Now if it's from a custom maker like say SAGER or ORIGIN maybe. They would use standalone drivers from the start. Unlike Dell, Alienware, HP, Lenovo.

I have updated from "oem" drivers 4 years ago to official nvidia releases without using ddu so idk where this is coming from

and its a HP

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No one ever said YOU HAVE TO USE DDU; FFS

The whole point of DDU is how simple it makes the whole process; since there are MANY things to uninstall from the system. It may even take multiple reboots to clear it all out when done through the normal means of Windows OS Uninstall methods.

[オナニー]

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes it does matter. If you baveOEM drivers they will not let you install the standalone drivers. That the whole point.

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

No one ever said YOU HAVE TO USE DDU; FFS

[Crawl]

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes it does matter. If you baveOEM drivers they will not let you install the standalone drivers. That the whole point. They are different drivers. It will say something regarding incompatible cause the oem driver is installed. Once you uninstall that your good to go. You don't want drivers from the oem or MS. Unless there is a need to use that but on modern laptops since nvidia gt/gtx 500 series this has usually not been the case. However the laptop usually ships with oem drivers which means it will rely on drivers from the oem or MS. The laptop maker basically already shoots you in the foot when you buy any laptop because you are limited on what you can do basically until you wipe those oem drivers off the system.

Now if it's from a custom maker like say SAGER or ORIGIN maybe. They would use standalone drivers from the start. Unlike Dell, Alienware, HP, Lenovo.

I'm not going to argue over it, feel free to believe what you want but I can tell you with 100% certainty that I have installed official drivers over OEM drivers on countless machines and without issue.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then I guess it didn't have OEM drivers to begin with, or they had already been removed at some point. Whatever. Pointless discussions.

[Tiberius]

Its weight. Kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Publicado originalmente por Tiberius:

Its weight. Kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop

What weight? Even power-house 17 / 18 inch laptops are fairly light-weight.

[Heretic]

Publicado originalmente por d¢:

Just get a cheap laptop. Don't do portable gaming...or just get a steam deck and then save thousands of dollars. Then you can also buy a laptop for like 150usd and install Linux on it and run anything else perfectly fine

Something like a R5 5500U should offer some light gaming and still pack a punch.

[Talby]

People use DDU as a preventative measure, from experience I have updated laptop drivers from the default to the latest, some games crash, DDU to wipe all and reinstall a previous driver version to get stable. On the desktop DDU when swapping from nvidia / radeon just makes sense.

Also no need to get a super-expensive laptop, a budget one will do just fine, most around the $600~$700 range is good enough to bring on vacation and far more versatile than a steam deck (e.g. virtualized / containerized environments)

[Guydodge]

Publicado originalmente por Crawl:

Publicado originalmente por Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes it is a need because Laptops have OEM drivers. Dump that junk so you can use the stand-alone drivers.

Of course you're going to say that you're one of the ddu people I was referring to in my previous post. Drivers installed just fine before ddu even existed and they install just fine without it now. Feel free to keep using it if it makes you feel better but acting like it is some required step is flat out wrong.

its a very useful tool there has been a few times it fixed issues i had after exhausting other
trouble shooting routes.your selling it short.nothing wrong with covering all the bases.