![]() You can help the project by translating it to other languages or making corrections in translations, reporting bugs, etc. You'll see all devices and drivers that the user have and you you'll be able to prepare drivers for them with the "Extract to." button. Once you have the snapshot, you can load it with the "Load snapshot." button or just drop the file on the app window. You can send the application with a file runme.bat with the following content: "SDI_R156.exe /nogui", ask them to execute runme.bat and send the log folder which contains a snapshot(*.snp file) of their pc. Helping people with driver problems remotely In this case you can use the "Select driver dir." button to find compatible driver on DVD. Some DVDs with drivers don't have an installer and you have to try installing drivers from different folders till you find a driver which works. This way they'll be able to restore drivers themselves and won't be needing to keep DVD with drivers. You can make a backup copy of drivers somewhere on PC before returning PC to the client. Maybe I should document them or make them more prominent. There some features which are hidden but you may come across them by accident. I'm going to tell about some useful but not very obvious use cases. I suggest getting familiarized with command line switches and popup hints. ![]() Snappy Driver Installer can be used in many ways. If you have issues with driver installation, you can post logs so that I can look into it. It should start up much faster now and also you can change port in settings.cfg. I know there were some issues with updating via torrents but it should be fixed by now. SDI - 19 secs (13 secs on indexing and 6 secs on compressing) ![]() ![]() SDI - 1.3 MB (42 files) Without localization and themes - 1 MB(one file). Snappy Driver Installer is written in C/C++ which makes it fast, compact, standalone. I wish SamLab wouldn't have to spend so much effort on making sure that his driverpacks work with DPS but for now he has to support the lowest common denominator. DPS can no longer pick the correct driver on its own and has to rely on markers which are put by SamLab and some trickery to force DPS into installing the correct driver, but it doesn't works all the time. It should be noted that his version of DriverPack Solution has most adware disabled by default but at this point I wouldn't bother with it anyway because DPS is left too far behind SDI in terms of how it picks driver for installation. He also releases his own SamDrivers that includes both Snappy Driver Installer and DriverPack Solution. The known issues aren't likely to be addressed because the team is too busy optimizing the website in order to maximize profit from users downloading DPS and installing adware.ĭriverpacks are being put together by SamLab. People keep complaining about adware, scripting errors, incorrect driver picking such as installing touchpad drivers on desktops but the only things that are changing are GUI and adware being updated to newest version. Since I left DriverPack Solution, they have no developers who understand how driver ranking algorithm works so no one works on improving it. ![]() It’s a complete rewrite from scratch and was initially supposed to be a new version of DriverPack Solution but I decided to split off from it so that it wouldn't end up being filled with adware. Snappy Driver Installer isn't just a fork. I haven’t been involved in the project for a long time, and now that I have my own project(Snappy Driver Installer), I no longer have to support DriverPack Solution. For my part, I tired to make these things easy to disable but even though I made major contributions to the project, I wasn't successful in convincing making it disabled by default. I used to work on DriverPack Solution but I wasn't happy with the fact it was written in JavaScript which means that it's very slow, depends on version of IE and I also didn't like that users had to deal with changing their homepage, OEM logo, software being forced down their throat. I'm the developer of Snappy Driver Installer. ![]()
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