Viewsonic P225fb driver install probs

No one has seen this problem?

I have had many monitors, some of which came with drivers. I have never seen any difference using the supplied driver at all. Not in features or in any benchmarks of any kind. Waste of time and space as far as I can see. I called Dell tech support once and asked just what the driver would do that came with my 30" monitor and they were at a loss to give a single reason to install it.

I had a P225F monitor back in the day, but ended up having 3 duds unfortunately. Anyway there is good reason to have the proper INF file installed for a monitor. Which is that the Plug and Play monitor doesn't always allow or detect the proper capabilities of the monitor you have attached to your computer. What this means is that without the proper monitor installed in the OS, the computer may not give you the option of setting your display to it's optimal settings / highest resolution and refresh rates. And it may also display non support resolutions for your monitor making it more difficult to select between different resolutions as some may end up giving you a distorted display or no display at all. So yes, there are very good reasons to have the proper INF installed for your monitor, especially if you frequently switch between different resolutions / refresh rates. Though please note, a driver for your monitor is not going to enhance or reduce it's functionality other than allowing you to only select it's proper resolutions / refreshrates.