• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    From my understanding, a lot of code in the graphics drivers is special-case handling for specific games to optimize for the way that the game uses the APIs. Is this correct?

    In which case it would make sense to have the game-specific code loaded dynamically when that game is launched, since 99.99% of the game specific code will be for games that the user never runs.

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      2 days ago

      From my understanding 99.999% of those “Game ready drivers” are patches for machines that you do not use but have to download anyway to keep everything on the same version.