Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What is a Software Driver as Fast As Possible”.
Now I’ve received a number of complaints that my fastest possible episodes haven’t been fast enough lately, and to that I would replied well if you weren’t all throwing things at me. While I try to film the bloody things, maybe we wouldn’t have this problem so with that 15 seconds of your valuable life wasted, let’s get right into it. A driver is, as Microsoft, defines it, software that allows your computer to communicate with hardware or devices simple right, but why do we even need that so you’ve got a device, let’s say a sound card? You should be able to just plug it in with no drivers and your music player. Let’S say we amp should generate a digital signal. That says you know yo sup dog.
I need to e-flat up in this biz or something, and the sound card should make that noise right well, actually, yeah, that’s basically how it works, and if there is only one sound card in existence it pretty much could but there’s a problem. There are literally thousands of sound devices, and all of them will work completely differently from each other. The signal that meant a flat in our last example could mean dinosaur onion to another and for everything to work correctly. Software makers would need to rewrite their software with specialized signalling for your sound card, along with every card that ever existed in every card that ever will exist.
It would be fine if every single software developer was the freaking doctor, but this is the real world not by fantasy. So that’s what a driver is. It acts as an abstraction layer or translator that way. The makers of your favorite programs only have to interact with your hardware in one standardized language and the driver handles the rest.
So that sounds relatively simple: why do drivers cause so many issues? Well, there are a ton of variables that exist for the programmers on the driver side as well. Aside from our oversimplified a flat example, your hardware is capable of a great deal of amazing stuff, all of which we expect to work absolutely perfectly and even though standards exist, even if they weren’t here to perfectly things like other devices and other pieces of software, can Cause conflicts, and, on top of that, separate drivers need to be maintained for multiple operating systems like Linux, OS 10 windows and the various flavors of each that exists in the wild each with their own universal language that the driver needs to translate to. It leaves plenty of room for one of the variants of a driver for a particular piece of hardware to have an imperfection or two and helps me at least understand by.
Sometimes a piece of hardware lacks support for the OS I’m trying to use it with, which isn’t to say that the lack of an official driver always precludes using the hardware on windows anyway. Sometimes, if you know what you’re doing you can force install one and it will mostly work, driver files are usually dot. Inf files and vista drivers can sometimes be used on Windows, 7 and Windows 8 and vice versa.
So pick the correct version of Windows, that is to say 32-bit or 64-bit, not Pro or ultimate or whatever extract the files from the Installer and give the manual browse feature and device manager. A crack before you totally throw up your hands and give up this trick. Has saved my bacon with wireless network adapters and other things a handful of times. Speaking of saving my bacon, this is from Dollar Shave Club and it contains their wonderful smelling, shave, butter and the only thing that could be manly or about it would be if it smelled like bacon.
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