Good day!
It's good when everything works on a PC / laptop: there are no errors, various freezes, sound stutters, the image in the game runs smoothly and without jerks. But by no means, this idyll is sometimes violated, for example, after reinstalling Windows, replacing part of the hardware, or when connecting new equipment ... 😢
As a rule, in more than a third of cases - the "culprits" of the problem are driver (or rather their absence). Of course, modern Windows 10 finds and installs some of the drivers itself, but this is far from always enough (for example, after its "work" you may not have important control centers, as is often the case with video drivers).
Actually, in this article I wanted to make a small overview of one mega-useful utility [note: Driver Booster 8th version], which automatically diagnoses your system, then finds new drivers for each piece of hardware and installs them. A minimum of actions is required from the user: as a rule, it is enough to press one "START" button ... 👌
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Driver Booster [8th version]
Officer. website: //ru.iobit.com/driver-booster.php
Driver Booster 8 - One Button to Start Updating!
First, a few words about the most important thing - about the main advantages of the utility:
- fully automated process - the utility does everything by itself: finds, downloads, installs, monitors the state of drivers and updates them in the course of your work (no manual work!);
- in addition to drivers, Driver Booster installs important system components (Framework, Visual C ++, etc., due to which the system often behaves unstable, especially in games);
- all drivers that the utility works with have been tested by Microsoft WHQL and IObit Review (ie no drivers from "folk" craftsmen, only software from official manufacturers);
- a huge database of drivers for several million items of equipment (one of the largest in comparison with similar products);
- a module for optimizing games, loading the necessary components for their work: they allow you to fix numerous errors, speed up the work of games, reduce the number of brakes;
- all "old" drivers (which the utility will update) will be saved in a backup so that you can roll back the system if something goes wrong (for example, video drivers are very "capricious", and some games may behave unpredictably: work fine on old ones , and not run on the updated version ...);
- the set includes very useful tools: system recovery, fixing incorrect resolution, "fighting" the lack of sound, viewing the characteristics of the hardware, etc.
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As for the direct update of drivers: after installing Driver Booster, the program will automatically check your computer and show their current state.
You can uncheck the boxes for those devices for which you do not want to update the drivers (however, in most cases, it is recommended to immediately agree and click "Update now" ).
Update everything - game components, sound and game devices, etc.
Next, the download process will begin (before updating, the utility downloads all drivers to disk).
By the way, there are no significant restrictions on the download speed: 2-3 Mb / s each, which allows for 5-10 minutes. download everything you need (besides, I do not have a premium version ...).
Boot process
After that, their installation starts automatically: at this time, you may temporarily lose sound, the Internet, blink the screen (this is normal, when installing drivers, this behavior of the PC is typical).
Installation
By the way, after you see a message that the process is complete, it is recommended to restart your computer.
The update was successful
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👉 About optimizing and speeding up games
Please note that on the left side of Driver Booster there are several icons (tabs). If you click on one of them in the form of a "rocket" (
) - the optimization window will open.
To speed up the game, for example, just press one button "Enable" : The utility will immediately clear the RAM from unnecessary hanging processes (by stopping some of the processes and services). For example, in my case, almost 1 GB of memory was freed!
Driver Booster will also show the amount of garbage found in the system (see the screen below 👇; 3.2 GB in my case). These are all sorts of temporary files (which are no longer needed by the system), the cache of individual programs, empty directories, erroneous entries in the registry, etc.
Game acceleration, system optimization
To optimize this "garbage" Drive Booster suggests installing another utility - Systemcare (see the screen below 👇). If you already have it in the system, you can quickly get rid of this "good" ...
The amount of trash found
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👉 About useful add-ons (tools)
In the tab "Instruments" there are many useful modules:
- System Restore;
- fix the lack of sound;
- correction of network errors (for example, in the absence of the Internet);
- setting the optimal resolution (useful in cases when your image on the screen is too "large / small");
- viewing the characteristics of the PC (this module is able to partially replace such well-known utilities as AIDA, Speccy, etc.).
Recovery Center - Fix No Sound
By the way, please note that you can also manually restore one specific driver (as, in fact, and make a backup copy of any current driver).
Recovery and backup
I would also note that the tools for fixing problems are very simple: for example, if you have no sound, then by running the debugging tool, it will check not only the system settings, the audio service (which Windows does), but also the state of the driver, will try to update / set it optimal parameters. Very often it helps to quickly solve the problem.
Fix missing sound
By the way, about viewing the characteristics of the computer - everything is quite informative (see the screen below): you can find out almost everything about the CPU (model, operating frequency, number of cores, etc.), OS version, see detailed information about memory, mat. board, display, network, etc.
A very useful tool that allows you to do without additional. utilities.
System information about the computer
In general, working with Driver Booster leaves the most positive impressions: even the most common free version (which I used) does an excellent job.
It helps especially when it is not even clear what components are missing in the system to run a particular game (for example): you know for sure that Driver Booster will find and update everything that is required ...
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That's all for me ...
Additions on the topic, as always, are welcome!
Good luck!
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First published: 09/14/2019
Correction of the note: 09/24/2020
