How to correctly remove graphics card drivers. Options

[Bolter2]

How To Correctly Remove Video Card Drivers.

It seems a lot of people on the forums are getting error messages which can simply be solved by making sure old drivers are removed correctly. This isn�t always the solution, but its certainly the first step to take in finding the solution. Also, I thought it would be useful to have a general guide on how to do it properly.


In order for new video card drivers to work correctly, you must first make sure that all old drivers for the video card are removed, as the old ones can conflict with the new ones, giving various errors when trying to run games ect.

Firstly, remove old drivers by navigating to device manager, and select display adapters, double click on your graphics card, select the driver tab, and select uninstall for your video card driver.

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Once installed, reboot your computer and start in safe mode, run driver cleaner and select �Nvidia� from the drop down list to be cleaned. This will remove all remaining parts of the old driver. It should be run in safe mode as this has the best results.

Once cleaned, restart the computer. Install the new driver.



If anyone thinks I have missed anything, and would like to add something, please do


Bolter2

Edit: given new link for driver cleaner

This post has been edited by Bolter2: Nov 21 2007, 01:31 PM