Now, before proceeding you need to restart Windows in safe mode.Ĭlick here for instructions on how to boot Windows 10 into safe mode. ( It would also be a good idea to skip down a few lines to the link for the Wagnard tools Display driver uninstaller and go ahead and get that downloaded before going any further as well.) Making sure you are trying to install drivers INTENDED for use with your GPU model or Windows version is extremely important as well. It's imperative that you start with a clean slate by removing ALL previous graphics drivers for that architecture or platform that might interfere with the transition to the new drivers. This can have a wide variety of results including no problems at all, refusal of the new drivers to even install or anything in between as well as driver and resource conflicts and poor performance. In many cases the system has seen repeated driver updates, partial or damaged driver installations or the installation of multiple architectures/generations in addition to a variety of different 'tweaking' utilities, all of which may have left behind varying levels of registry entries and system file versions that are likely to cause complications with the installation or implementation of new drivers.

It's also often not enough to simply install the drivers that came on disk with the graphics card or to just find and download current drivers. Sometimes it is if they've kept up with keeping the drivers current but more often it is not.Ĭhoosing the clean install option in the actual driver installation may not be the answer either as some files, folders or registry settings are left intact, rather than being completely removed as when done with the DDU, so I recommend instead using the DDU to ensure a complete removal of the existing installation AND settings.

Many users upgrading from older cards or integrated graphics that use older driver versions by the same OEM, meaning Nvidia or AMD based, often assume it will be a bang, bang process. How to do a CLEANinstall of your graphics card drivers using the Wagnard tools Display Driver UninstallerĪ major issue on many systems is the presence of multiple graphics card drivers or drivers that have been incompletely uninstalled followed by the installation of newer drivers that can result in rogue registry entries and other issues.

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