When I tell people how my performance is on some games, they say that something's wrong and that I should get more performance with what I have, and that I probably have bad CPU drivers, which led to the question in the thread title.
Specs:
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[*]AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core @ 2.21GHz
[*]4GB DDRII 800MHz RAM
[*]GeForce 9800GTX+
[*]Vista Ultimate SP1
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I've been on the main AMD site and all they have in their "drivers download" section for Phenom I's is just some utility programs instead of drivers. Is there something I'm missing here?
I don't believe I've ever heard of a "cpu driver".
cpu drivers?
chipset driver, also there are "CPU drivers" for the BIOS but you have a weak cpu that is why
Way back when, AMD had a "dual core optimizer" which was kind of like a driver, but really only made old programs work better on dual core CPUs. Some programs were dependent on CPU frequency and timing or something which was much different on dual cores.
Other than that, no; there are no CPU drivers.
lol i have dual core optimizer
For those of you who thinks there are no external CPU drivers ever existed:
[url]http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/windows/xp/x86/cpu/8.04[/url]
Here's a driver for AMD K8.
CPU drivers are something that shouldn't strictly be necessary. I have a K8 and I remember having to install those drivers to fix timing issues. I think what this really did is redefine some common functions that relate to the real-time hardware or clock register reads.
Bug patching, in other words. This is not a driver in the same sense that other hardware uses drivers.
Most of the time it's a generic Windows driver to control power management settings. AMD does release drivers for their CPUs, but you aren't going to have adverse performance or system problems due to having an old driver.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;17059248]Way back when, AMD had a "dual core optimizer" which was kind of like a driver, but really only made old programs work better on dual core CPUs. Some programs were dependent on CPU frequency and timing or something which was much different on dual cores.
Other than that, no; there are no CPU drivers.[/QUOTE]
Way back when wasn't so long ago. GTA San Andreas for the PC needed it.
Without it different parts of the game, especially traffic go way faster than they should.
I miss the good old days of Turbo buttons. I still have one on my case that isn't connected to anything.
[QUOTE=Subby;17059689]lol i have dual core optimizer[/QUOTE]
No.
All CPUs have drivers. Just check in Device Manager. For example, the driver for my Core 2 Duo is located at %windir%\system32\drivers\intelppm.sys
The driver will vary by make and model.
Usually, there is absolutely no reason for ANYONE to mess with a CPU driver, that's why most people don't even know about it.
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