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What happened? A basic driver is only 2MB. Why do I need
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What happened?

A basic driver is only 2MB.

Why do I need a 300-400MB download just to update GPU drivers these days?
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>>55262162
You can download a driver without any extras and they're usually about 20-40mbs for basic functionality. The space is taken up by additional calls, game patches and the GUI.
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Bloat.

It's not just the graphics driver, it's everything that comes with it plus their dependencies.
That flashy GUI? 100MB of dependencies.
Audio driver.
PhysX driver.
3D driver.
Game-specific settings profiles.
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>>55262586
I think he understands that, anon.
I think the question was meant to be more like some oldfag yarning "what's the world come to?"
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% yaourt -Qi xf86-video-ati | grep Size
Installed Size : 488.00 KiB
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