• jdub
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Topic: [NOT APPROVED] Driver installer app?

Not so much a feature request for driverpacks base but it would be incredibly helpful. If you could look at one of those open source driver updaters out there, maybe improve on their detection a little (even the payware ones tend to tell me I have hardware installed that I dont), and get it to use driverpacks as its source... well that would kick ass.

The windows driver update/installation method is kinda broken, 85% of the time it wont find newer versions of a driver online, defaults to older m$ drivers even when you have WFP turned off etc.

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Re: [NOT APPROVED] Driver installer app?

It's too much work for now. We'd need a very powerful server attached to a huge bandwidth internet connection (VERY costly) and it's far from easy to maintain such a system in a reliable way. I think you can imagine the costs of that would prevent me from keeping it donationware only. It'd become payware: it's not doable to keep this alive without bankrupting me. And I don't think many of you would be willing to pay for this, would you?

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  • jdub
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Re: [NOT APPROVED] Driver installer app?

Well, if you left the back-end software open, anyone could host it, maybe some nerd out there has some spare bandwidth (heck even I knew a guy with 2 T1's at his house up till a few months ago). Also have you looked into any of those torrent API's? Awhile back I remember hearing about one being made for programs so developers could integrate it into apps. Understandably most drivers aren't very large so maybe torrents aren't optimal, but its an idea.

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Re: [NOT APPROVED] Driver installer app?

If I have to use multiple servers, then I also have to code a reliable syncing mechanism - or at least USE one. That'd be yet another task. Plus I cannot oversee the reliablity of those servers, nor the speed. This doesn't make me change my view, I'm sorry.

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Re: [NOT APPROVED] Driver installer app?

Nono, I mean RELEASE the backend stuff and let other people worry about hosting it. The program would just have the ability to input the server url manually.