I Need to Learn About Drivers

aaronchristopher98

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To start, I'd like to say that I know NOTHING about drivers or what they do. I have never had any experience with them, and have had my PC for almost a year now. It's a gaming PC that I built and it works great. I've only installed one before, and it was so that I could play BF4 beta with my Radeon 7850. That's the only experience that I've had at all. I just downloaded it and boom. I was done.

So the main reason I'm asking this is because I wanted to purchase a microphone for the YouTube channel that belongs to my buddy and I (http://www.youtube.com/user/GaaronimoGame if anyone is interested).

Anyways, I was going to purchase this mic - http://www.amazon.com/Samson-C01U-Studio-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B00E4WWLWA/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t?ie=UTF8&colid=2MJ6Y86KWXYMQ&coliid=I358DFQXRG4XS5

And I was reading some customer reviews on it and they said it was a top notch mic, except the drivers ruined it. I don't even see how this is possible considering that I haven't really installed any drivers at all for my stuff. So if anybody could just give me an overall response to this thread and help me out that would be nice.
 
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Drivers are part of what controls the devices, pieces of software that take commands. Windows installs drivers from the windows servers automatically when you install something. For more system integrated things like gpu or sound drivers, you usually want to install the drivers from the manufacturer's website since the manufacturer has better info about the device to make the drivers and often releases newer updates.

lxgoldsmith

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Drivers are part of what controls the devices, pieces of software that take commands. Windows installs drivers from the windows servers automatically when you install something. For more system integrated things like gpu or sound drivers, you usually want to install the drivers from the manufacturer's website since the manufacturer has better info about the device to make the drivers and often releases newer updates.
 
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aaronchristopher98

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So if I were to purchase that mic and the drivers were crap, then It would control the device in a crappy way? Because I now understand that drivers install automatically when you plug in a new piece of hardware right?
 

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Windows may install drivers it knows about. If it doesn't know, you need the drivers from the manufacturer. For specialized equipment, you need those anyway.

And if the drivers are crap.....then the equipment will act like crap.
Great video card + crappy drivers = crappy picture.