Feed Back

Just tried out 3DP Chip and it's a useful and nifty little application however there are a couple of things I think could be better.

1.) If your drives are already up to date then it should say so, as a test case I used 3DP Chip to update my audio drives to the latest version after installing the driver and restarting the system I then clicked on the audio driver button again expecting it to display a "You already have the latest drives, no update is necessary." message however it didn't which could cause confusion if people aren't sure what version drivers they have installed.

Information which I know from experience this isn't always easy to find out, my audio drives for example display a different version number when I click on the information button the audio control panel than the version number that's displayed on the realtek driver download page on the realtek driver download page the latest drivers are displayed as R2.69 however when I click the information button the audio control panel the version number that is displayed is 5.10.0.6649 this makes it extremely difficult to know what drivers I have installed and if I need to update or not so I'd like to see 3DP Chip doing a version check and informing me if the drivers I have installed are currently up-to-date or not.

2.) That brings me nicely to my next observation on the main screen each button should display the version number of the drivers currently installed as a back up to the version check so that users can see at a glance what drivers they have installed and if they need to update.

3.) When you do a driver check with 3DP Chip the page that pops up should be linking to the appropriate drivers on the manufactures web site as well as the 3DP Chip Link

So for example in case of my audio drivers the page that would pop up would look something like this.

(3DP Chip - The easiest driver finding tool)

Currently Installed Drivers (v2.68 - 04/06/2012)

Update log
 - 2012.06.09 : Driver has been updated (v2.69)

XP & 2000 & Server2003

v2.69 (2012.06.08) Manufacture - LINK
v2.69 (2012.06.08) 3DP Chip Mirror - LINK

| Win7/8 & Vista & Server2008
[ Driver ]

( 32bit O/S )
v2.69 (2012.06.08) Manufacture - LINK
v2.69 (2012.06.08) 3DP Chip Mirror - LINK

( 64bit O/S )
v2.69 (2012.06.08) Manufacture - LINK
v2.69 (2012.06.08) 3DP Chip Mirror - LINK

[ Utility (Optional) ]
3D Sound Back v0.1 beta (EAX. 2009.07.15) Manufacture - LINK
3D Sound Back v0.1 beta (EAX. 2009.07.15) 3DP Chip Mirror - LINK

the reasoning behind this is that if the 3DP Chip server goes off line for what ever reason the tool becomes useless but if the window that pops up also displays a link to the drivers on the manufactures page then that problem is eliminated, there is also security concerns to consider, as a general rule of thumb it is not recommended to get drivers from third party sites it is always preferable to download drivers directly from your hardware manufacture so that you can ensure what you are downloading is legitimate and has not been tamped with.