Oh noo half of the gigabyte, what can I do? It takes year’s to download, and I don’t have storage, noooo ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Jackpkmn
Bandwidth is extremely cheap. Processing power to make a specific deltas only patch for your specific setup is not. They either need something like that or 10000x different patch files specifically to go from whatever specific version you have to the latest version.
The easiest thing to do for everyone is to just provide the entire package. Especially since you don’t need to download it every day.
szponix
What is most irritating for me is the fact that on the webpage they have all those dropdowns where you choose GPU series, model and OS, but in the end those are pointless, because it’s always the same package that you download.
ficklampa
Intel is (or at least used to be) the same with network drivers. You went through the whole wizard to chose the right model but in the end it downloaded this massive package with drivers for EVERYTHING they made that had to do with networking. Always fun every time.
Iirc it was the same for the GMA too but haven’t touched that in many, many years so not sure.
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Oh noo half of the gigabyte, what can I do? It takes year’s to download, and I don’t have storage, noooo ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Bandwidth is extremely cheap. Processing power to make a specific deltas only patch for your specific setup is not. They either need something like that or 10000x different patch files specifically to go from whatever specific version you have to the latest version.
The easiest thing to do for everyone is to just provide the entire package. Especially since you don’t need to download it every day.
What is most irritating for me is the fact that on the webpage they have all those dropdowns where you choose GPU series, model and OS, but in the end those are pointless, because it’s always the same package that you download.
Intel is (or at least used to be) the same with network drivers. You went through the whole wizard to chose the right model but in the end it downloaded this massive package with drivers for EVERYTHING they made that had to do with networking. Always fun every time.
Iirc it was the same for the GMA too but haven’t touched that in many, many years so not sure.
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gamers are just feeling the oem pipeline…
OP has a very smooth brain.