The game of the moment? The medieval city builder, Manor Lords, of course. The game burst into early access over the weekend and has so far sold over one million copies on Steam.
Moreover, it reached a high point for strategy games at over 170,000 players playing at once. With figures like that, for a game in early access, I've come to expect reports of performance issues.
Yet there have been surprisingly few. Of those, the developer says, most ending up in a system crash are the result of outdated drivers. «99% crashes so far are old drivers.
And when people say 'I updated the drivers', I check logs and see old drivers,» the Manor Lords official account says on X. All three GPU manufacturers have released driver packages with optimisations for Manor Lords: Nvidia, AMD, nor Intel list any specific performance increases in Manor Lords with the latest driver packages, but that's no reason not to upgrade.
If your drivers are any older than those listed above, you'd best update for the smoothest experience. Though there are other causes for crashes in Manor Lords, as noted by the developer.