After several months of intense testing, the official version of the driver wizard 2013 was finally completed. Relative Driver Wizard 2012, Drive Wizard 2013 greatly enhanced upgrades, including more efficient cloud driver library, new UI design, more convenient function control, driver one-click download and so on. The driver wizard also supported the recent hot Windows 8 consumer preview operating system. The following is the main changes in the official version of the Driver Wizard 2013.
1, the new UI design program is more efficient
driver wizard 2012 version of the interface has been redesigned, the interface is more concise, the operation is more convenient. The new version of the 2012 engine greatly enhances the hardware and drive identification capabilities, docking the new version of the cloud database, and finding drive efficiency is more accurate and accurate. From the first screen, you can easily find the switches of various functions. Various commonly used functions can also be found with dedicated buttons. Users who have previously installed the Driver Wizard 2012 Beta will definitely have found these changes. We have also made a lot of improvements in the efficiency of the program. The driver wizard 2012 software starts faster than the 2011 version, and the waiting time for getting the driver list is also reduced by a few seconds.
2, support Windows 8 consumer preview version
For the current hot Windows 8 consumer preview version, the driver wizard also made support on the day of the operating system release. And in the following time, the software has been modified and optimized under the Windows 8 system.
We noticed that under the Windows 8 system, the driver architecture of the sound card and graphics card has been changed, and some devices may have problems during the driver installation process. Below, I will introduce some of the driver architecture changes under Windows 8 system.
Sound card part:
We noticed that in the Windows 8 era, Microsoft began to regain the sound card hardware acceleration function. The emergence of this situation is really exciting, because in the era of Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems, in order to ensure the stability of the system, Microsoft replaced the hardware layer that the sound card driver could access with the analog layer. The difference between the soft and hard sound card was Severely reduced. The hardware acceleration features that reappear in Windows 8 will inevitably improve the performance and sound quality of “hard sound card”.
But after testing, the actual situation is not as good as expected. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview system does not integrate any "hard sound card" driver. Even more ridiculous is that hard drives such as X-FI and Windows 7 drivers can not be installed, the already fragile "hard sound card" users are once again hit, we can only wait for manufacturers to speed up research and development Drive to solve these problems.
The good news is that all users who use the onboard HD Audio sound card are not affected. The Windows 7 driver is available. The Driver Wizard 2012 version already provides HD Audio sound card support, and all drivers can be found for download.
Graphic card part:
The graphics card driver module under Windows8 system has been upgraded from WDDM 1.1 to 1.2. At present, most graphics cards can work normally. At the same time, the manufacturer's actions are also relatively fast. For example, AMD has released a beta driver specifically for the Windows 8 platform. NVIDIA also released drivers for Windows 8 systems the day before. The above drivers are already available on the driver wizard. As for some slower vendors, users need to wait patiently.
Other compatibility issues with Driver Wizard 2011 in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview have been resolved in the 2012 official release.
3, other aspects of improvement
Other aspects, the driver wizard 2012 version of the new & lsquo; one-click download required driver & rsquo; button, making user operations more convenient. All drivers are downloaded once and no manual intervention is required. The new patch upgrade module, the first time to obtain Microsoft vulnerability update content, to solve the user. In addition, there are dozens of subtle improvements in Driver Wizard 2012, which you can explore slowly in use.
The launch of the official version of the Driver Wizard 2012 is not the end of our improvement. In this year, the driver wizard will continue to inherit the concept of user needs and continue to upgrade. The function that everyone needs is the direction of our improvement. Thank you for your support and help to the driver wizard, the driver wizard will be better and better!