Are Clevo/Sager's video drivers modified at all, or is it safe to update direct from Nvidia & Intel?

I know with some laptops I've had that updating with stock drivers causes all sorts of weird problems, leaving me stuck with outdated drivers until the OEM updates their version (if ever).

Is that the case with these guys, or are they using the stock versions of Nvidia and Intel GMA drivers?

 

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OEM's recommend a graphics driver which is loaded on your system when you buy it as this is the most stable graphics driver at the time.
clevo's are high end gaming rigs so every owner wants to get the best out of their lappy with more fps in games. this is when it gets interesting as some are great and some are not. its a chance we all take. whql drivers are recommended releases by nvidia but can still make scores lower. betas are just that, beta drivers that may give better scores but then may not. the majority of clevo owners cant wait until the next driver comes out and to get them on their system to see if it will improve their scores.
just for example i had the latest whql 306.97 loaded. the day of black ops 2 release nvidia released a beta driver that was meant to be 26% better for the game using a 680 graphics card.
now you would think the whql would be best out the two but you would be wrong. the game would not play at all and it kept crashing and not responding for me. i updated to the 310.54 beta and the game loads and plays great for me with no problems at all.

this is where i get the nvidia drivers from as it gives the last 10-15 released NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search
make sure the drop down boxes are set to notebook and your corresponding gpu and operating system.

i dont bother updating any other drivers as my moto is "if it aint broke dont try to fix it".

 

I don't think the Clevo drivers are modified. They are standard drivers, the only thing Clevo and their resellers do is to 'certify' the drivers. They test if the drivers work, and that's it. A few weeks ago I asked about the same question. My reseller warned me not to use any other driver than those supplied by him. Well, my Clevo is perfectly happy with the standard drivers from the various hardware component manufacturers like Nvidia, Intel and Realtek. And that is the way it should be. Every piece of hardware in a PC that needs a driver has a unique vendor-id and device-id combination. Those two numbers define exactly which device it is. If a vendor produces a driver for that piece of hardware, that driver should work. That is what that whole identification system is all about. If a notebook manufacturer claims you should not use those drivers, then he has produced a bad piece of hardware. Windows update should be able to give you the correct driver solely based on the vendor-id/device-id combination. With the Nvidia 675 in my Clevo, that is exactly what happened. Within a few days I got two new driver versions. You can use beta drivers of course, but they are not called beta for no reason. I'm not a gamer, but if a game doesn't work properly, it can also be the problem of the game of course.

 

correct. clevo drivers are not modified.
the ones that are modified are from laptopvideo2go and have a modified inf which tweaks various things. i have never used these so dont know much about them but there are hundreds of members on here that do use them.

 

Use the stock versions, in case you have enduro or optimus install your base driver first (from clevo website or your disk) and then put the newest drivers over the top if you want a clean install.