AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam

Posted by carusen on Sunday September 19, 2010 @05:28AM
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Re:AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam by johkra on Sunday September 19, 2010 @03:00PM (#1706674)

Steam is becoming a package manager for windows?

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Re:AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam by kmfrk on Sunday September 19, 2010 @11:08AM (#1706256)

Only for laptops, though, I assume.

On Windows laptops, upgrading your graphics ATI drivers has always been a royal pain in the ass.

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Re:AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam by chadgeidel on Sunday September 19, 2010 @01:30PM (#1706524)

Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work on my Toshiba netbook with a Radeon 4300.

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Re:AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam by Das_Bruce on Sunday September 19, 2010 @05:56AM (#1705932)

I hope these won't be forced, I can't be the only person who has had to use older drivers due to bugs/etc.

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Re:AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam by TeHCrAzY on Sunday September 19, 2010 @06:01AM (#1705935)

Its not forced, I went through it today, and then promptly rolled back to 10.3, the last (somewhat) working driver from ATI/AMD.

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Re:AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam by sliverstorm on Sunday September 19, 2010 @01:43PM (#1706557)

I'm happy they are working on this; it's been a long time coming IMHO.

There are plenty of pitfalls for sure, but I think it's a great idea.

(Although I do hope they keep working on the client. It's a little buggy...)

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