Proper video driver installation ?
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B_Witched,
Posted on: 2010-06-24 06:30 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Here you go, Kinrad.
1. Get the lastest driver and download it to your desktop.
2. Uninstall your old driver. You should be prompted to restart your puter...when you do, start in Safe Mode.
3.When you open in safe mode, close any prompts to install the Windows drivers. Use a product like Driver Sweeper to remove all traces of your old driver..bits and bobs left over could cause conflicts. (I use Driver Cleaner Pro that I paid for a long time ago. Driver Sweeper is free, and is very good.)
4.Restart you puter as usual. Again, close any prompts to install Windows drivers. Install the new driver you left on your desktop. Reboot. Done.
All that's left is to adjust your settings in the control panel to your liking, and any others you wish to make.
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Thanks, I appreciate that. Especially the link to the cleaner, because there seem to be quite a few of them and I don't know which is considered 'best'. 
Is there any reason I need to worry about or update my direct-x as well? If so, should that be before or after the video driver installation?
Thanks again!
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The latest DirectX is out, and you can update it before or after, your choice. Here is the latest.
DirectX (June)
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Much obliged, thanks!
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It depends on what OS you are using. Windows XP only officially runs DirectX 9. Yes, there are some sites with as kludgy way to install the DirectX 10 files on XP, but I'll stick with 9 on XP. DirectX 9.0c is the most current version on XP. DirectX 10 came with Vista, 10.1 came with Vista SP1. DirectX 11 came with Windows 7 and will run on Vista.|
Originally Posted by Kinrad
Is there any reason I need to worry about or update my direct-x as well? If so, should that be before or after the video driver installation? |
So, depending on what OS you are using and what version of DirectX you currently have, that would be the determining factor in whether or not to upgrade it.
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I am running Windows 7 64 bit OS.
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There shouldn't be any need to update DirectX then but it wouldn't hurt. I think DirectX is only used for Sound as the graphics for the game uses OpenGL.
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Originally Posted by Healix
Here you go, Kinrad.
1. Get the lastest driver and download it to your desktop. 2. Uninstall your old driver. You should be prompted to restart your puter...when you do, start in Safe Mode. 3.When you open in safe mode, close any prompts to install the Windows drivers. Use a product like Driver Sweeper to remove all traces of your old driver..bits and bobs left over could cause conflicts. (I use Driver Cleaner Pro that I paid for a long time ago. Driver Sweeper is free, and is very good.) 4.Restart you puter as usual. Again, close any prompts to install Windows drivers. Install the new driver you left on your desktop. Reboot. Done. All that's left is to adjust your settings in the control panel to your liking, and any others you wish to make. |
According to Nvidia's driver help page, you don't need to uninstall your old video driver anymore. I tried and it worked. Would you be aware of any problems happening when you're following Nvidia's new way of installing new drivers?
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I hope there's no problems with not uninstalling them. Not the most recent time I updated, but the time before, I ended up uninstalling my network adaptor, too, since it's nVidia. Thankfully, my SATA Controller, also nVidia, didn't get uninstalled.
Since then, I've been hesitant to update my drivers. I just recently installed the 257.21 drivers without an uninstall. They seem to be working fine, fortunatly.
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I'll try the new method when the next drivers come out..if I experience any probs, I'll go back to the old way. Thanks for the heads up, Neb!
�Many things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.� having to uninstall and re-install is very old wives tale. In the case of moving from say ati to nvidia or installing a brand new motherboard and trying to keep the old hard drive then yes some clean up in necessary..but upgrading versions of nvidia or at or chipset drivers never requires an uninstall and if it does the vendor will do that in the install package. Most of the time all the program is doing is installing new version of the same files, registering new dll's etc..which most of the time why a reboot is required. Only in extreme cases should you ever need to unistall or run a driver cleaner program.
I have downloaded the newest drivers for my Nvidia GeForce GTX 470, but I want to make sure I am installing the drivers properly.
I remember reading something a while ago ( and now I can't find it ) about uninstalling current drivers, using some cleaning tool, and then installing the new drivers.
Can anyone please provide step by steps for me? -=sheepish grin=-
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance
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