Things to remember on updating your graphics card driver.

A graphics processing unit driver (GPU) or often referred to as videocard driver, is the software that allows your operating system and programs to use your computer’s graphics hardware instead of using built-in ones which will never (most of the time) support most of your game or application requirement. If you play PC games, you should keep your computer’s graphics drivers updated and in tip-top shape to get excellent performance out of your hardware.

I have previously advised you to think before you update your PC drivers  – most hardware drivers that came in with your computer or through Windows Update will do fine. However, graphics drivers for your NVIDIA, AMD, or even Intel graphics hardware are of huge exception. These not only include packages that may contain tools that will help you configure your graphical settings; newer versions are being released to comply with the newest games and are tried and tested to provide better gaming performance.

Updates you are downloading and applying to your computer’s motherboard, sound card and network drivers don’t generally provide speed improvements. They will often fix rare bugs – and may even introduce new bugs.

Nevertheless, this is not the case with updated drivers for your graphics card. NVIDIA and AMD and other graphics card manufacturer regularly releases new drivers that often offer major performance enhancements, mainly for new PC games.

There are a  lot of ways to identify your computer’s graphics hardware; through either downloaded third-party software or through Windows Device Manager.
To open the Device Manager, press the start key to open your Start menu and type Device Manager and click the shortcut. (If you are using Windows 8, press the Windows key, type Device Manager at the Start screen, select the Settings group and click the shortcut.)