Can I ask the techs in chat a silly question?

[Naruzeldamaster]

I know it's no reason to be concerned.
But I've always wondered why the monitor flashes/shuts off briefly when updating graphics drivers.

 

[pmmg]

Possibly because it is stopping and restarting a service (though more likely the driver) of the video card. Usually it makes you reboot. Does it not do that?

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Possibly because it is stopping and restarting a service (though more likely the driver) of the video card. Usually it makes you reboot. Does it not do that?

For Graphics Card driver updates no, for OS driver updates it does. Typically in some form of 'restart your pc now or it will go boom' way.
Is the driver itself not a service or ?

 

[pmmg]

Its not really a service, but it may as well be for the way it is handled. It would be adjusted in the device manager, not where the services are.

Vid Cards tend not to be hot swappable, like a USB drive might be. If there is a change to it, the software behind it would have to be switched off and rebooted with the newer one. I would expect a reboot for that, but maybe not. If you have an Nvidia, or Radeon card, maybe those parent companies have a way of updating them without that.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Its not really a service, but it may as well be for the way it is handled. It would be adjusted in the device manager, not where the services are.

Vid Cards tend not to be hot swappable, like a USB drive might be. If there is a change to it, the software behind it would have to be switched off and rebooted with the newer one. I would expect a reboot for that, but maybe not. If you have an Nvidia, or Radeon card, maybe those parent companies have a way of updating them without that.

Yep it's an Nvidia card. Probably not the latest/most powerful one but like fairly recent ish ( RTX 4070 )
Other thing I'm struggling with is convincing my PC to natively use my GPU card over integrated. The integrated are great, but I paid a lot for the GPU lol

 

[pmmg]

Well...Video cards went through a phase were no one could buy them and they got real expensive, most people who want the latest have been priced or coudl not get them.

Now its RAM that has become way expensive. Wish I knew before it started. I could have bought stock.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Well...Video cards went through a phase were no one could buy them and they got real expensive, most people who want the latest have been priced or coudl not get them.

Now its RAM that has become way expensive. Wish I knew before it started. I could have bought stock.

See I built my PC So it had more than enough ram (In my opinion anyway) when I got it.
It's the other stuff that was lacking I (Uninteligently) didn't get extra memory, for example, cause I thought 500 GB would be enough.
If I do get more added, 100% gonna get as much as my MB supports, and saving that 500 GB just for the OS.
Might also get a Dedicated Sound/Internet card at some point too.

 

[pmmg]

You never have enough computer.

I recall paying $400 for a 420MB hard drive and thinking I would never use up all that space. How wrong we can be.

1TB is enough to mostly keep business users from having to upgrade, but a gamer? Get ready to empty your pockets every year of two.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

You never have enough computer.

I recall paying $400 for a 420MB hard drive and thinking I would never use up all that space. How wrong we can be.

1TB is enough to mostly keep business users from having to upgrade, but a gamer? Get ready to empty your pockets every year of two.

Thing is, I don't 'game' much on my PC, few odd things on my Steam account are hyuuuge (Like Monster Hunter for example) But I don't tend to have more than what I'm currently playing installed on my PC.

 

[Reaver]

Thing is, I don't 'game' much on my PC, few odd things on my Steam account are hyuuuge (Like Monster Hunter for example) But I don't tend to have more than what I'm currently playing installed on my PC.

I don't game on my laptop at all because I have a MacBook. That's for work and I game on my PS5 (and occasionally on all my other consoles).