Nvidia drivers update tip

[C6Gunner]

I've never had a problem updating the Nvidia Forceware drivers on personal system, until this last one...

- I installed the newest release and it didn't take (tried a few times).
- After an uninstall and registry cleaning, I tried to reinstall the previous ones without success.

What fixed it for me was to uninstall/clean/reboot and use the drivers supplied by Windows Update.

After those were installed, I installed the newest release again and it worked perfectly.

S.

 

[Romaniac]

interesting...Thanks for the info.

Last time I used software provided by MS updates....I had to do a restore point.

 

[NickCat11]

Thanks for the heads up

 

[Tweak]

Some reports of degraded performance with the latest nVidia drivers so keep that in mind depending on your usage of the pc which you install these newer drivers for for the time being.

 

[C6Gunner]

So far all is well (fingers crossed...).

S.

 

[thor999]

It is my experience that your best bet, when installing any nVidia drivers, is to
1) Uninstall the device
2) Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs, remove nVidia
3) Delete all nVidia folders in Program Files (different procedure for Linux, obviously)
4) Reboot then install new driver/s.
May be overkill for some, but I've had my fair share of issues w/ nVidia drivers and always use this method to avoid them.

 

[Doctor Micro]

My 2 cents

Although sometimes they work, I'm not a great fan of hardware driver updates downloaded from Microsoft Update. I don't keep track, but my gut guess is that they only help or work about 60-70%% of the time, and the time spent recovering from a bad driver install negates any convenience from the "one stop shopping" aspect of Microsoft Update. For drivers, I much prefer getting updates from the OEM site. And, though I have to admit I don't always do it myself, I try to always make a system restore point before any updates. I don't trust the OS to make the decision as to whether it thinks a restore point is necessary itself.

In the case of driver update problems, the simplest recovery is often to do a roll-back to the previous driver.

 

[Tweak]

Although sometimes they work, I'm not a great fan of hardware driver updates downloaded from Microsoft Update. I don't keep track, but my gut guess is that they only help or work about 60-70%% of the time, and the time spent recovering from a bad driver install negates any convenience from the "one stop shopping" aspect of Microsoft Update. For drivers, I much prefer getting updates from the OEM site. And, though I have to admit I don't always do it myself, I try to always make a system restore point before any updates. I don't trust the OS to make the decision as to whether it thinks a restore point is necessary itself.

In the case of driver update problems, the simplest recovery is often to do a roll-back to the previous driver.

MS driver updates are almost always terrible for XP and on although greatly inproved still they can be on occasion a crapshoot for Vista/Win7 so I tend to try to be cautious as well.