Hey all. I purchased a copy of the new Computer Shopper earlier this week and came upon an article detailing how to upgrade your graphics card. I had a brief look and noticed the odd method he used for uninstalling the driver. He suggested going to Device Manager and clicking "delete". I found this rather odd. I went into Device Manager and could see no delete button just uninstall. This led me to think, "which is the best method for updating Geforce drivers (Sorry never had an AMD/Ati card. I remember over ten years ago that any remants of an old driver left on the system could be a major issue when installing the latest version. The old way I used to carry this out was to add/remove the Nvidia driver and reboot. That would then run windows Vga driver and i would then install my new Nvidia one. Last year I was chatting to my Finnish friend who is a tech head and he was telling me that now you just download the driver and start it running and it does it all. I hadnt known this. I tried it and yep seems to do the trick now. I checked Nvidias Faq and it seemed that was the way to. Though you did have an option in advanced to do a clean install. I was wondering what everyone thinks about the best way to do this. Lee
Here is a thread all about driver installation, installing straight over older drivers is not recomended.
Thx guys. Krony that is the most hardcore thread I have ever seen regarding graphics drivers. A lot of it isn't really necessary ie release notes. The rest makes a lot of sense. Thx for the help. Lee
If upgrading nvidia card to nvidia card, or ati to ati I would just stick the new card in and install the latest driver, had to install a new driver for battlefield 3 beta, and my computer didn't even restart, just DL'ed it, installed it, then BF3 fired up.
I never remove older drivers. I just download on top of em like a lot of people. However if I was changing brands I would remove the previous drivers and install afresh .
Yes alot of it is unessesary info that u prpbably already know, u can pretty much cut to the point of the unistallation of the current drivers, tho ppl that know nothing of how drivers work maybe should read the entire thread just to get an idea of how things work.
