Acer Swift 3 314-42-R2UX installing Windows 10 and drivers

IgorP57

I've recently bought Acer Swift 3 314-42-R2UX (Ryzen 5 4500U, 1 TB SSD, 16 GB  DDR4). It comes with eShell, and not with Windows. I do not have laptop yet, but I'm trying to prepare everything for installing Windows 10 in advance. I made installation flash drive with Rufus (GPT, UEFI (non CSM), Fat32) and I downloaded drivers.  So I have few questions:

1. There is a VGA driver but there is VGA Utility too. What is VGA utility, and should I install it?

2.  And there is XPERI DTS Utility and XPERI DTS Utility (DTS console). When I compared them there is difference in only one file (Install-UWP.cmd). Same files, same version, only date is different. Should I install it both or only newer one?

3. Some drivers do not have exe files. Should I install them with Setup_APP.cmd?

4. When installing Windows 10 should I only change boot priority in BIOS, or should I do something else too (disable secure boot, or something like that)

billsey

Install W10 first, run the first set of Windows updates, then go into Device Manager and only do manual installs on devices the Windows install didn't get. Typically that will be the chipset drivers and maybe the IO drivers. The rest are typically dealt with just fine with the ones that come with the OS. What then will be missing is utility software. I'd install the VGA utility for your AMD GPU and either of the XPERI DTS Utility packages, I believe the second one either defaults to a console interface or adds that to the first one. No need for drivers for hardware you don't have, so you might want the Intel WiFi, you might want the Atheros, but Windows will figure that out for you.

billsey

Install W10 first, run the first set of Windows updates, then go into Device Manager and only do manual installs on devices the Windows install didn't get. Typically that will be the chipset drivers and maybe the IO drivers. The rest are typically dealt with just fine with the ones that come with the OS. What then will be missing is utility software. I'd install the VGA utility for your AMD GPU and either of the XPERI DTS Utility packages, I believe the second one either defaults to a console interface or adds that to the first one. No need for drivers for hardware you don't have, so you might want the Intel WiFi, you might want the Atheros, but Windows will figure that out for you.