Automatically Detect and Download all your PC drivers
During the last decade, I got the chance to try many driver repairing tools, some of them were free, some were not. I never liked any of them though, some couldn’t correctly detect the hardware that is unrecognized by windows, some provided dead driver download links, and some were loaded with spywares are scarewares.
When I was working on a friends Acer laptop, trying to find almost all of it’s drivers that Windows curiously was unable to recognize any of them. Even the manufacturer was not quite sure what the hell they put in this model.
That is when I tried a software called Device doctor, I kinda liked it for the following reasons.
1. Free
2. Was able to detect all the needed drivers.
3. Was able to provide driver updates for the installed drivers.
4. All drivers were hosted at the device doctor website.
5. No registration required !
6. There is even a portable version of the software, to be used without installing from a flash drive, if you were geeky enough for that.
I still haven’t got the chance to really check it’s capabilities, but so far, it’s looking good.
You can download Device Doctor here
Also you can get the Portable Device Doctor here
ATI Catalyst installer crashing when installing driver version 9.8
When I was installing the new Radeon driver v9.8 the installer kept crashing before the installation started on windows vista 64.
The solution is simple, just go here
and install the appropriate update for your system. This crash is related to some problems in the Visual C++ libraries and this fix will allow you to install this new version just fine.
Did you sense any improvements with the new CCC 9.8?
BCM2045A USB Bluetooth Dongle driver for windows Vista 32 and x64 bits
BCM2045A USB Bluetooth adapter is a cheap Chinese usb bluethooth adapter, it works very well under windows XP but under windows Vista, there is no way you can install it’s driver because it is not digitally signed and there is no version on the internet that is.
To use this BCM2045A USB Bluetooth Dongle on windows Vista follow these simple steps:
HP 656c Driver for windows Vista 32 and 64
HP 656cThe HP 656c is a very old hp printer. I got it around the year 2001, recently I needed to download a driver for it to work on windows Vista x64 and not surprisingly there was not.
The trick to use your HP 656c on windows Vista 32 or x64 is easy.
Radeon Catalyst and display driver 9.6 NEW
A new driver is released for almost all recent Radeon display adapters. The following improvements are announced with this new driver
- Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series
- Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
- Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
- World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings
that were previously CPU limited
Also, some crashes and problems with the CCC has been fixed.
This is all great, but now in a time where AMD (ATI) cards are considered better than their equivalents in nVidia, I think it is time for AMD to stand up for the challenge and fix embarrassing bugs such as:
- 3D graphics corruption in many games with Adaptive anti-aliasing enabled.
- Games crash on minimize and resolution changes.
- funny looking effects.
- Buggy deinterlacing that actually make movies interlaced (scan-line effect)
- V-sinc does not know when to turn on or off
AMD (ATI) must work more with the developers and do more “Best played on Radeon” games. Also it is time to flood the market with DirectX 10.1 games, since no nVidia cards already supports it. and I’m not talking about crappy games such as Stormrise.
Radeon card are strong but I feel that this miss a Strong software support.
what do you think
ZSMC USB PC Camera (ZS0211) Driver for Windows Vista 32 64
This one gave me a really hard time to find, So I decided to upload it for you nice ppl to save you some time.
This driver works for the ZSMC USB PC Camera (ZS0211) as well as for many cheap china made webcams. it works under windows Vista 64 bit
Anyway the trick is not in the driver it self but in windows Vista. Download it here (LINK UPDATED !!!)
-restart your computer.
-hold F8 before windows Vista loads (right after the BIOS POST screen)
-select “Disable Driver Signature Enforcement”
- now boot to windows and install the driver. your ZSMC USB PC Camera (ZS0211) will now work
Enjoy
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