It’s a thing of beauty encased in sleek black metal that reflects the hunger in your eyes as you lovingly caress the cooling fan mounted to one side. To compliment this masterful sliver of silicon, you’ve picked up the latest ‘games never looked this good’ FPS, complete with engine promises of real-time global illumination and gorgeously rendered environments spanning eleventy billion kilometres of game area. Good thing you bought that new video card, eh?

So you’re set; except for the little matter of drivers. Those sneaky little liaisons between hardware and the operating system often get less attention than they perhaps deserve. If you’re like most people, you’ll head straight for the NVIDIA or ATI website and grab the latest reference drivers for your card, and there’s nothing wrong with that approach. The drivers function, they get your GPU recognised, and gaming can commence unhindered.

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