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It is widely believed that the two versions are completely identical, just on a different release cadence. The "Studio" version is also supposed to pass a wider set of tests, but it's still the same driver. The "Game" driver is really only important for newly released games needing fixes/patches/optimizations that just weren't available yet for the previous "Studio" driver release.

At least, that seems to be the consensus among people who've tried to figure this out. There's no official word.




The fine print on the security notice page says that there is a 565.92 version that some OEMs are pushing out themselves.

I get that there is a different release cadence, but it’s simply not acceptable to do business as normal surrounding security releases. The driver page should either have that 656.92 available or disable the download link for the stable channel with a note on when they expect it to be available again.

At the very least, some product manager should be fired. This is a legal liability, and no amount of click-wrap disclaimers will protect them if someone gets owned because of this negligence.


The studio driver also opens up some functionality that the game driver does not.


Like what? I did a fairly deep search on this recently and couldn't find any mention of anything like that.




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