Snappy Driver Installer Origin

[glennd]

Yes, I'm asking why there is no indication on the front screen that app/index updates are available, which it used to. On one of my recovery drives with SDIO it currently says 'Updates are Available: 48 driver packs'. If I click on that I see there's also Application and Index updates available, which I would have missed if I didn't click on it.

I, and I assume most others, don't need to know about updated driver packs. They download on demand if needed anyway. But the app and index updates need to be installed, they're the most important update but there's no notification. It did that in earlier versions (possibly before 'origin').

For a while now I've been going into the update screen every time I run SDIO, because it's the only way of knowing. I've lived with this for a while now so if you can't figure out the issue, don't worry.

I found that to which you refer. It used to say something like "Updates available: SDIO R648, 22 driver packs". I made a change over a year ago that killed off the "SDIO R648" part. I didn't realise I'd done it and no-one since then has picked it up. I'll get a new version out in the next few days.

 

[fincoder]

Thanks so much!

 

[tasonis]

Glad I came across this post! Very nice tool, I'm going to give it a shot.

 

[fincoder]

Is there any way the video driver packs could be split up to save downloads? These can be as big as 3GB, and new video drivers are released very often. In my workshop it uses less download allowance to simply allow Windows Update to install the video drivers.

 

[glennd]

Is there any way the video driver packs could be split up to save downloads? These can be as big as 3GB, and new video drivers are released very often. In my workshop it uses less download allowance to simply allow Windows Update to install the video drivers.

I wish there was. I raised that issue with driver man ages ago and he refused to do anything. The only thing to do is update the drivers less often.

 

[Moltuae]

I just wanted to say thanks for all your efforts in continuing to maintain this software @glennd. It's not that often I need to use it to be honest but it is great to have when I do.

One potential improvement that occurred to me while using it a couple of weeks ago (and this is something that has always bugged me with Windows updates) would be to have it download and install drivers concurrently. Rather that wait for all the drivers to finish downloading before starting the installation process, why not extract and install each driver as the next one begins downloading? I would imagine that's possible, with the exception of network drivers (which could be left until last), and it could potentially cut the time it takes to update the drivers in half.

 

[glennd]

I just wanted to say thanks for all your efforts in continuing to maintain this software @glennd. It's not that often I need to use it to be honest but it is great to have when I do.

One potential improvement that occurred to me while using it a couple of weeks ago (and this is something that has always bugged me with Windows updates) would be to have it download and install drivers concurrently. Rather that wait for all the drivers to finish downloading before starting the installation process, why not extract and install each driver as the next one begins downloading? I would imagine that's possible, with the exception of network drivers (which could be left until last), and it could potentially cut the time it takes to update the drivers in half.

I know what you're saying. From my reading of the code, the whole 'download from the internet on the fly' thing was an afterthought inserted into the driver installation process.

What you're describing is certainly possible, instead of the current serial approach, have a much more parallel approach: spawn a thread to fire up the torrent downloads and notify me as each file download completes so I can install it without waiting.

There's a couple of reasons why I believe this approach wouldn't attract any great improvement in overall time to completion.

The first is the way torrents work. They don't download one file at a time, they download a bunch of pieces at the same time, these pieces could be part of any file in the torrent depending on many factors including who has what available and is willing to hand it over at the time. Often there is no significant difference in completion time between downloading one smallish file and downloading 20 smallish files. You'll probably find that those 20 smallish files will all finish more or less at the same time. Admittedly there will most likely be a difference between a 1MB file and a 2GB file but that's not guaranteed, torrents are weird things.

just the one thing really... there's a whole other discussion we could have another time.....