Windows 8 is out in the wild for quite a while now, but not all companies have been prompt with the release of optimized drivers for Windows 8.
I personally experienced this issue and I can tell you how frustrating
it is. I think every company should prepare much better for such an
important like the Windows 8 launch was. Everything should be ready to
go when the OS sees the sunlight.
However, things weren’t like that and users, in many cases, should search on their own for Windows 8 compatible drivers.
That’s why we’ve decided to come up with a list that will surely help
you out. We’ll try to put here as many drivers as we can find so you can
find what you’re look for.Update your drivers from within Windows 8
Before jumping to the list below, you should know that there are a few ways to update your drivers to Windows 8. Microsoft has thought about this, as well, and they’ve included some very easy ways to update your drivers. Here are two basic, automatic driver update solutions:To enable the Windows Update function, you need to open up the Charms Bar in the Modern UI, then choose Settings. After that, select Chance PC Settings and from there, go to Windows Update. From there, you should already see a few updates available. If not, check for updates yourself. The updates will take place when you restart your computer. Be aware, if you don’t restart your computer even when Windows recommends you to do it, it will restart it “by force”, but will warn you like 3 days ahead. So, it’s better to restart on your own than to lose your work.
2. Update drivers from Device Manager
This method has been present in previous Windows versions, as well, so you might be very well acquainted with it. Once again, open up the Charms Bar and type there “Device Manager”. Go the settings and open it up. From there, you should update the driver to products that you see with an exclamation mark near them. And after that select Update Driver Software.
If these basic methods haven’t helped you get the latest, Windows 8 compatible drivers, then probably you should download them on your own, alas. If you still will not be able to find your model, then, apparently it can only mean that there are yet no compatible drivers. But that’s less likely to happen, so we hope this list will help you out.
Graphics drivers
We’ve decided to put graphics the first because, personally, I’ve seen this to be the most looked for section when searching for Windows 8 compatible drivers. Therefore, first thing you need to do is to check with the following names, according to what you have in your machine:
Laptop drivers
Motherboard drivers
HDD, SSD, Optical drives
I consider the above drivers to be crucial to the functionality of your Windows 8 machine, so, if you need a driver for your HDD, SDD or optical drive, then you shouldn’t be too sad, because these are not crucial, but still, they are important to your system. Let’s have a look.
Hard Drives
Solid State Drives
Optical Drives
Network and Sound cards
Sound cards
Network cards
Peripherals – keyboards, mice, headsets, printers
How would your computer look without a keyboard or mice attached to it? Pretty lonely, right? It might come as a surprise for some of you, but keyboards, mice, headsets, printers or other peripherals also have their own drivers. Usually, they’re given to you in a CD when you buy the product, but if you lost it, here are a few places where you should go searching for your drivers.
- Cooler Master
- Corsair
- Canon
- Creative
- Cyborg
- Gigabyte
- HP
- Logitech
- Plantronics
- Roccat
- Razer
- SteelSeries
- TTEsports (ThermalTake)
- Turtle Beach
- Lexmark
- Microsoft
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