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Is there any point in installing a monitor driver?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202641474 views
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I'm guessing that most of the world's PCs are running with a default "Plug & Play Monitor" driver which seems to work well enough, and having just swapped to a 2005FPW, installed the driver and noticed zero difference - not even a flicker during install - I was just wondering if there is a point to…

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With new monitors - no. Old monitors didn't know how to send resolution information so not having driver meant that not all resolution and refresh combinations were available. All new LCD screens that I saw know how to transfer this information thro…

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