Driver Booster for Steam

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 92%Very Positive · 92%2018

Free to play

US Steam price, checked 2 h ago

The verdict

A one-click driver updater that many find a real time-saver, but a loud minority report broken systems, a paywall for basic updates, and vanishing Pro licenses. Skip it if you won't make restore points.

Great for

Users who want an easy way to find drivers after a Windows reinstall and will make restore points first

Main risk

Installing a wrong driver that causes BSOD, boot loops or lost audio, or losing your Pro license

What players love

Saves time finding and updating drivers

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“Instead of spending the next hour digging through Device Manager, manufacturer websites and random forum posts from 2012... Open Driver Booster. Scan. Problem found.”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗

“Easiest way to keep your drivers up to date.”
Steam review · 38.5 h played ↗

“Really helps when reinstalling Windows to find drivers for all the laptop's components”
Steam review · translated · 8.6 h played ↗

Game Boost frees RAM and improves smoothness

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“A handy program that frees up 2 GB of RAM and often comes to the rescue even with demanding games”
Steam review · 62 h played ↗

“the PC boost function works very well: Windows was eating 5GB RAM, after boost it uses 2GB”
Steam review · translated · 6.4 h played ↗

Fixes real problems like BSODs and missing drivers

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews

“This Software fixed the issue by fixing an outdated USB Driver, and Running this program once a month and updating everything, I haven't had issues since”
Steam review · 41.9 h played ↗

“After updating the drivers, all the monitor specs the seller promised came back”
Steam review · translated · 11.9 h played ↗

Lifetime Pro license is good value on Steam

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“it is better, cheaper and lifetime license to buy it here rather than the official website.”
Steam review · 103.6 h played ↗

“For 300 rubles, the best investment.”
Steam review · translated · 19.9 h played ↗

Restore point and rollback before updating

Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews

“I like that it creates a snapshot before updating in case something goes wrong and you can roll back the updates”
Steam review · 110.5 h played ↗

What players complain about

Bad drivers cause BSOD, boot loops, bricked PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“Completely bricked my ASUS ROG Gaming laptop. SSD became inaccessible ("INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE") after drive booster executed an auto-reboot during driver installation.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

“if you try to do so like Driver Booster suggests, your PC will go in a long reboot loop until restored to a recovery point.”
Steam review · 12.6 h played ↗

“Updated a driver and the laptop stopped turning on.”
Steam review · translated · 6 h played ↗

Aggressive ads, PUPs and malware suspicions

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“It's a complete scam that downloads unsafe PUPs on your PC, even when you specifically click "NO" to their shitty offers.”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗

“the desktop pop-ups are fkn ridiculous when you have this running in the background”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗

Updates disable audio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or touchpad

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“I updated all of the drivers and it disabled my audio and mousepad!”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗

“after updating drivers the Wi-Fi died and never came back”
Steam review · translated · 0.2 h played ↗

Downloads stall or fail, finds no updates

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews

“Updates don't download and everything freezes at 1%”
Steam review · translated · 14.3 h played ↗

“the program failed to find any drivers; ironically, it even claimed that the system was up to date”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

Basic updates locked behind Pro paywall

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“It used to allow updates but now it won't let me update ANY of my drivers until I pay for the premium version”
Steam review · 18.6 h played ↗

“2k rubles to download drivers that are freely available anyway”
Steam review · translated · 0.6 h played ↗

Pro or lifetime license disappears or doesn't work

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“Randomly removes the premium "life time" license”
Steam review · 127.2 h played ↗

“the developers just removing the pro versions from the people time to time”
Steam review · 185.5 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OSWindows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Windows XP, Vista

Processor1 GHz processor or faster

Memory512 MB RAM

Storage500 MB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Windows XP, Vista

Processor2 GHz processor or faster

Memory1024 MB RAM

Storage10 GB available space

OSWindows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Windows XP, Vista

Processor1 GHz processor or faster

Memory512 MB RAM

Storage500 MB available space

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