Why are drivers on Asus support site so outdated?

Hi all,
Recently, i was browsing my G53JW's support page and download section, really surprised that the available drivers on download page are soooo outdated such as Nvidia (Display drivers), USB 3.0 (Fresco) drivers, Chipset (Chipset isn't much better though), Sound etc......

Thanks to guys on forum, updated / latest drivers are posted by members (also thanks to Chastity for the G series driver / application page with updated versions), but officially the identical versions must take place on Asus download page at the same time.

Does anyone have any idea why drivers on Asus download page aren't updated?

 

Chastity's page gets outdated too
so you better search drivers on your own

 

They aren't updates because they make new models and move support away from the older ones. You can find most drivers up to date in the driver downloads section of the support site.

Select model manually -> notebook -> drivers and then the device you want. you'll still want to grab the nVidia drivers directly from nVidia.

 

tijo, i already gather at my notebook model manually here:

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download G53JW

Then select OS (like Win7 x64), you get too many outdated drivers like Nvidia and USB 3.0. That's not a good indication of Asus how they value their customers to keep their laptops up-to-date. Any user (including Novice users) wouldn't have been forced to search 3rd party websites such as station-drivers and many other unknown driver sites including hardware vendors' websites seperately. It's a support page maintainance shame.

 

This is actually more or less normal for most if not all computer manufacturers, besides maybe some small special gaming ones. They usualy just release one or maybe two drivers, which they test for compatability and functionality and that's it. You get used to it over the years
But at least Nvidia and AMD now release compatible mobile drivers which don't anymore require any modding....

pato

 

What i am saying is that if you go to the place i indicated, you will find most of the drivers you need up to date or at least a more up to date version. For example, go through the G53JW support page, you get ATK1.0.0005, got through the general driver page and you get ATK 1.0.0014.

Also what pato said, it is not only Asus, as far as i know, pretty every manufacturer does it. Heck, for my Toshiba, on their website, they only had the same drivers that were on the restore disc.

 

Yep, only Asus bundled applications and device-special drivers (such as ATK package) are quite up-to-date, but other devices such as USB 3.0 controller drivers (Fresco) and Nvidia drivers are so outdated, latest seems to have been published over a year ago. You need to search forums or vendors' site which is against centralized driver support understanding.

Thanks for your comments, though, cheers.

 

The only driver that really benefits from updates is the GPU because new games always need fixes. Thankfully, years ago AMD and NVIDIA noticed that notebook vendors don't give a rat's about keeping drivers up to date so took it upon themselves to do so. The days of hacking desktop drivers to work on notebooks sucked.

Windows Update provides some other new drivers, such as for the flaky Atheros wifi.