Freeware driver updater, Windows 7 w/ 32/64bit support

[Device Doctor]

We have just released the final beta of Device Doctor, freeware device update utility. It's got a great database of drivers that we're hosting on fast servers so that you don't have to wait for driver downloads to trickle in from Taiwan!

This is a free community app with no Pro version, no crapware, limitations or anything like that. Try it out at Free Driver Update Software - Device Doctor and let us know what you think!

Thanks,

Collin.

 

[swarfega]

Does this differentiate between 32-bit and 64-bit drivers according to your system and download the correct one?

 

[Device Doctor]

Definitely, it does a proper hardware scan. Of course, it may find fewer 64-bit drivers that will work for you but more and more vendors are adding 64-bit support, we're adding drivers daily. The actual scan is very quick (a few seconds) so give it a try!

 

[swarfega]

Well this is the results from the scan:



Now for the first item it attempts to download this:


This seems to be a driver for XP

Second item thinks I have an AMD system when in fact its Intel:


This is for the Asus P6T6 WS Revolution board which I dont have. Mine is the native Intel DX48BT2.

 

[Captain Zero]

Oops.

 

[zigzag3143]

Not Good.

 

[Zen00]

I received similar results on testing it. Unfortunately this product does not seem ready for general consumption yet.

IMO, all driver detectors are terrible.

 

[Device Doctor]

Well this is the results from the scan:
...
This is for the Asus P6T6 WS Revolution board which I dont have. Mine is the native Intel DX48BT2.

We haven't had as much beta testing on 64-bit side so I appreciate you taking the time to run it. Feedback from our 32-bit testers has been really good across the board. I'll forward this to our programmer, the app actually logs recommendations so that it can automatically improve the process for everyone in the future (if you left that enabled on install).

Zen00: what happened when you tried it?

 

[spliff]

Yeah,only good for backing up existing drivers that are being used when you do a fresh install.

 

[Device Doctor]

Yeah,only good for backing up existing drivers that are being used when you do a fresh install.

We're hoping it will be useful for more than that once we're out of beta!

Collin

 

[Zen00]

When I ran it, again it tried giving me XP drivers for my Windows 7 system.

 

[tony roma]

win7 bulid 7127 x86:

Found driver for my Asus monitor, install it, works ok.

Found new driver for Realtek HD Audio controller, install it, work ok.

Everything else didn't found ok...

I don't have AMD, and I don't have P6T6 motherboard...

Program still don't work for Win7 exactly...

 

[Device Doctor]

Zen00 and Tony, thanks for your feedback too! We had our coder look at these issues and are already working on a fix and a way to improve our DB longer term too.

Best,

Collin

 

[FZ21Z]

I've just tried it, and it also tried giving me an AMD driver, uninstalling now.

Thanks anyway.

 

[kpo6969]

When I ran it, again it tried giving me XP drivers for my Windows 7 system.

Same here

 

[stormy13]

After reading some of the posts about this program, about the only thing I have good to say about it is that unlike some of the others that do the same thing, this one doesn't insist on running all the time.

One thing i would like to see you change, change the default "automatically install updates" changed. I can see lots of people that don't know any better (the "yes, click, OK, click, OK click" crowd) getting into trouble by installing an update that they shouldn't have.

Would also be a very good idea to provide a link to any updates so that people can see what the update actually is for; release notes, etc. Too many that rely on this sort of program have no idea what they are doing, only that it says there is an update available, not whether it is actually need or not.

 

[SquonkSC]

After seeing the posted results, how on earth can this be called a final beta??!! :shock:

Suggesting AMD drivers for Intel systems and XP drivers for Win7?

You guys have some work ahead of you before this program can be taken seriously by anyone.

Hope you get it sorted.

Good luck

 

[Zen00]

I'll give it a try on an XP HTPC I'm building next week. We'll see how well it does on that.

 

[stormy13]

I'll give it a try on an XP HTPC I'm building next week. We'll see how well it does on that.

Just did that on an old ECS L7S7A2, SiS based Socket A system, and it is offering/telling me to update the USB2 driver. Wouldn't be so bad I guess if it wasn't for the fact that the driver comes with Windows (running XP SP3), and that the driver comes from Asus and has this to say in theReadMe,

Windows 2000 USB2.0 Driver Installation
========================================

Please using Windows 2000 SP4 (Service Pack 4) or later versions, you DO NOT need to
install this driver, because they already contain software support for USB 2.0.

So why is it even being offered in the first place?

 

[Device Doctor]

Thanks all for the feedback, we are days away from another release that will be a lot less aggressive with system-level drivers. The reason a lot of you are seeing this is that our beta was focused on consumer market: to put it simply, we want to make it easy for our moms to fix their sound or video without anyone's help. Members of this forum are a lot more sophisticated and push their hardware and OS to the limit so we're getting a ton of interesting info.

If any of you are interested in giving us feedback directly we do have a forum at Device Doctor Forum

Thanks again,

Collin