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A stable computer is crucial to testing a new mod. Without a stable computer, it will much harder to determine if the mod itself is incompatible or buggy with other mods or Skyrim, or if the mod is incompatible with your computer. Here are some tips to increase stability. | A stable computer is crucial to testing a new mod. Without a stable computer, it will much harder to determine if the mod itself is incompatible or buggy with other mods or Skyrim, or if the mod is incompatible with your computer. Here are some tips to increase stability. | ||
'''Device Driver Updates''' | |||
A driver is a computer program that allows other computer programs to interact with hardware (device). Most drivers are update relatively frequently, especially drivers for graphic devices such as AMD's or Nvidia's graphic cards. Driver updates fix bugs and offer performance improvements. As such, it is quite important to have an up to date set of drivers for all your computer's hardware devices. | |||
If your computer is pre-built, for example, you bought an off the shelf computer under a brand (vendor) name such as HP or ACER, a program(s) is usually included that assists in vendor specific driver updates. If this is the case it is important to use this program(s), as many brand name off the shelf computers have drivers specifically designed for their hardware devices, rather than generic drivers. Consult the manual or the website for information on how to do this on your computer. | |||
If your computer is custom made <s>then you probably dont need to read this</s>, then there are several excellent programs to assist with this. A great tool is [http://www.driver-soft.com/ Driver Genius], which will download up to date list of drivers for almost all hardware devices, scan your computer with that list, and specify which need to be updated. The freeware version will do all of this. If you upgrade to the paid version, then the program will also download and install the drivers for you. | |||
'''Overclocking''' | '''Overclocking''' |
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