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August 2nd, 2021 01:00

Which Graphics Driver should I install?

I have a laptop from Dell and it has an Intel processor with integrated Intel graphics. I am confused to which driver should I install? I mean, on Intel's website the latest drivers were released recently, but on Dell's website, for specifically searching for my device (yes, I put my service tag), it still shows the driver from 2017. So which should I install, intel's latest driver, or the recommended 2017 driver? I think what happening is that because laptops are prebuilt and have a lack of support of hardware compatibility than a desktop computer, Dell is recommending the 2017 driver because it knows that that I have a laptop, but intel doesn't. But, months ago I had installed the very latest driver intel provided that time, and a few issues I was having with some games were fixed, but I thought that I should not be using this driver, so I rolled back to the previous, but then the issues with some games started again. Mainly it was a V-sync problem. V-sync was off, but the screen would go haywire.

So which driver should I install? Latest, or recommended? Also on Dell's website, it shows that with the Intel's 2017 graphics driver, there is a Nvidia GT graphics card driver??? WHAT? There is no way on Earth that I spent 6 years of my life with integrated graphics when I already had an actual graphics card. Also if so, Windows would show that I had that installed, but it didn't so there is now way I have a Nvidia GT graphics card, but then why Is Dell recommending that driver to me?

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August 2nd, 2021 03:00

Use the Dell driver - not the Intel one.

As for the discrete GPU, it was probably an option on the model system you have.  If you have only the base model with integrated video, you don't need the nVidia driver.

 

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August 8th, 2021 00:00

Dell, If you are seeing this, the reason I am not replying is that Gmail is throwing me an error saying that "dellcommunity.com" was not found. Fix it. And if you cannot, reply me and I will send the message here.

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