How reliable is Driver Booster 6 from IOBIT?

[RememberThe5th]

Hello,
Since its hard to find new drivers for some motherboard, or even on Support page are still outdated few years as IOBIT reports, is that true or not?
Is it even worth it using IOBIT? Is there any other similar software that is more reliable than it?

 

[Colif]

DB is dangerous, it can and will install the wrong drivers for hardware... It did that twice on my previous install and I lost all sound on one attempt. Its only upside is it creates a system restore point before making any changes.

Only use it if you haven't got a choice, and careful what it wants to install. I would use them as suggestions only and try to find a better source.

Normally best choice is use any driver software that comes from maker of hardware, like MSI Live update 6 or Asrock App Store as they look for legit drivers for their hardware.

What hardware are you trying to find drivers for?

 

[Unolocogringo]

Malware Bytes recognizes it as malware.
Most of the time it is correct.
But other times it will install wrong drivers and brick your computer.
What drivers do you need?
We can list links to safe drivers if we know what you need.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Motherboard is Asus Maximus Hero VII,
Issues;
-Realtek Audio driver install, wont install the Asus Sonic suite 3, or if it installs the microphone goes black, recognized, wont recognize voice, soo basicly no "Green bars" moving, but works with stock Microsoft drivers, but it gives me hissing.
Also I think the Headphones amp is stuck to Boost 3 (The highest boost).
-Asus AI suite, works sometimes, sometimes gives errors, sometimes it wont even open.

Windows is fresh from Reset before swapping motherboard, soo no fresh install, since it will take me quite a while to get all the updates of the "Crap" internet that i have.

No crash issues, BS or similar.

To add, all ready removed all old unused drivers from device manager.

 

[gdmaclew]

My experience with ASUS AISuite is not good.

Which version of Windows do you have installed?

Which BIOS version are you running?

Try the suggestions from this site for the Realtek Audio Driver.

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-reinstall-the-realtek-hd-audio-codec-driver

 

[Unolocogringo]

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/HelpDesk_Download/

Have you tried the drivers from here?

 

[gdmaclew]

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/HelpDesk_Download/

Have you tried the drivers from here?

You read my mind.
I was going to suggest that very thing but I wanted his OS and BIOS version first.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Bios latest, Latest Windows update.
Yes mainly tried those drivers, from first and showing the hidden ones, prompt reboot, continue installation and Software wont pop up, but if i install manually, it somewhat odd and buggy.

 

[gdmaclew]

Bios latest, Latest Windows update.
Yes mainly tried those drivers, from first and showing the hidden ones, prompt reboot, continue installation and Software wont pop up, but if i install manually, it somewhat odd and buggy.

Which latest Windows update?
Windows 10 or Windows 7 or 8?

Again as I said above, try this...

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-reinstall-the-realtek-hd-audio-codec-driver

 

[RememberThe5th]

Bios latest, Latest Windows update.
Yes mainly tried those drivers, from first and showing the hidden ones, prompt reboot, continue installation and Software wont pop up, but if i install manually, it somewhat odd and buggy.

Which latest Windows update?
Windows 10 or Windows 7 or 8?

Again as I said above, try this...

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-reinstall-the-realtek-hd-audio-codec-driver

Windows 10 ofc. But I don't wanna stock realtek control panel over the what Asus provides me, I've done that way via Device manager few times allready.