It pops up now and doesn't seem to do anything once installed. I can't find any information about it. I already have Synapse installed and running.
Funny, but I was looking for a different answer. Like, why Windows feels the need to send me this update when I already have the latest driver.
Only time you should let Windows install a driver from WU is if you can't find it yourself and there is no driver installed for that hardware
Dunno why Razer doesn't release a proper Copperhead driver, last is for win7. now Im stuck with generic win8.1 c1:
It installs fine, but there is a issue with rights and stuff, can cause bsod access violation something.. even in compatibility mode. Not a big deal though, works fine with generic, only Razer mouse cpl is missing.
Ahh see you didn't mention this.. You just asked "What is this?". Wasn't trying to be funny.. Guess I took the question too literally. Yeah. Pay no attention to Windows hardware drivers recommendations for stuff you know is up to date. AMD used to be notorious (maybe they still are?) for releasing new official GPU drivers that weren't WHQL and then Windows would try to get you to "update" to the WHQL version which was technically outdated.
Im the same with my LAN driver, generic works fine, but 7/8/8.1 drivers tell me there is no Intel LAN adapters found, they have left out the hardware ID for 8.1 for my card for no apparent reason because people who have modded it to allow the hardware report it works fine ASUS as usual just dropped support after promising a new driver release and failing
As far as "ready made" drivers w/ Windows have come there is still some flaws.. I recently bought a Netgear USB Wireless adapter... Windows found it immediately and all was good I thought.. Until I realized it wasn't seeing any 5Ghz networks. I had to actually install the driver from... *Gasp* A CD for it to work correctly and see 5GHz networks. The horror of having to using a driver CD in 2014. I almost fainted..
Yea I get basic LAN use, it works, but this adapter is a pretty good one and without the Intel driver, I lose a lot of functions, like a LOT of functions Luckily I mainly use this for pure net in / out, so not affecting me so much, but I can imagine people who spent £200 on a board to find they now need to buy a new LAN card for Win 8.x if they need more than just a straight connection
Asus did the same to me for SATA drivers Windows 8 available SATA drivers Windows 8.1.. NOPE JMicron drivers installed automatically but the Marvell controller in device manager had a ? next to it.. Luckily the Windows 8 drivers seemed to have worked.
Yep my whole experience with ASUS is; decent hardware, but when it comes to software / firmware / drivers, they are as much use as a peanut They left my tablet (TF101) a rebooting PoS brick, and at the time being almost half a grand, people were less than impressed, they sent out multiple updates, each one making the problem worse, in the end they did their usual, the dropped support They just have no skill or ability for coding at all, they are absolutely useless at it, and they rip off their consumers by sending out something a monkey could do
They're stuck in the stone ages where people were upgrading mobos on a regular basis.. My mobo is what (googling) 3 and 1/2 years old now and I still have ZERO reason to upgrade it.. The i7 2600k will last me at least another year or two before *something* finally starts pushing its limits. Reminds me of Creatives driver division.. "Oh, that's cute. A new OS.. We'll get you a beta driver about 6 months after it goes gold... Meanwhile. We'll pump out 25 copy/paste soundcards in the meantime."
Do you have a CT Desktop Adapter by chance? I took mine out because PROSET doesn't work with 8.1 because of the mentioned missing hardware ID. Have people managed to hack it? Is there a guide somewhere? It's not a huge loss but it was a $35 network card that I can't use the software for because of arbitrary reasons. It even works on regular 8 FFS.
I'm using some super old Deathadder drivers on Windows 8.1, ver 3.0.1, synapse driver is pretty bad. But as people have said windows does pop up with weird stuff sometimes, keeps telling me to install my creative soundblaster drivers for my Asus Xonar Essence ST, I've never owned a creative soundcard lol