How does one check if my drivers are all updated?

Elementalfury

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I was looking at a couple games with the "Can I run it" site and it said my drivers were 6 month out of date. So naturally I click on the link to check and it seems fishy so I came here to double check. I'm wondering if any of you experts out there have any news on the subject, sorry if I respond late and thank you in advance if I personally forget to do so.
 
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You can use a http://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php I am not sure if you need to pay to have the program install the driver updates but you can use it to tell what drivers are outdated and manually find the drivers online from the hardware vendors.
I personally don't use these programs because I know my hardware and manually once a month look for any updates from the vendors.

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You can use a http://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php I am not sure if you need to pay to have the program install the driver updates but you can use it to tell what drivers are outdated and manually find the drivers online from the hardware vendors.
I personally don't use these programs because I know my hardware and manually once a month look for any updates from the vendors.
 
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Elementalfury

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Thanks for the help!

 

Colif

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I wouldn't use it to actually update the drivers but as he said, its handy to find out what is old and then go find the drivers yourself. Driver Booster has a habit of installing the wrong drivers so I would be careful with what it suggests

Depending on your hardware, the hardware makers might have a program specifically for your PC, so it might help to look in the utilities page of the web site for either motherboard (if its a custom PC) or Model (if its a brand name PC or Laptop). If there is such a program, it should be trustworthy enough to install updates for you.
 

Elementalfury

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So you're saying I should check my motherboard provider, since my pc is custom?

 

Colif

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Not sure I would update drivers if your PC works fine. Its likely it saw your graphics drivers are out of date, you can update those if you like but changing drivers just cause there are newer ones for most hardware isn't a smart move over time.
 

Elementalfury

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Alright, thanks for the advice