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Title: Vid card installation
Post by: Max on May 27, 2019, 06:52:08 AM

 :banana: Jeff Bezos is dropping off my new EVGA GTX1660 Ti today. What do I need to do, if anything, in terms of removing old drivers? As far as the installation DVD goes, will I have the option for installing drivers only? What Nvidea/Geforce bloatware should I avoid or keep?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: FLS on May 27, 2019, 07:03:10 AM

If your old card is nvidia you can just download and install the latest version over it. Choose custom setup and driver only, for a minimal setup. W10 will likely sort it out when you boot up.

Included DVDs may not have the latest drivers.

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: Spikes on May 27, 2019, 08:44:54 AM

If you don't want to use the DVD, download it from their site and it'll have the latest ones. The site will also give the option to do driver only or Geforce Experience.

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: Bizman on May 27, 2019, 09:06:34 AM

In case your current video card isn't an Nvidia or if you just want to get rid of old drivers for sure, run DDU.

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v18014-released (https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v18014-released)

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: Vraciu on May 27, 2019, 09:46:40 AM

Quote from: Max on May 27, 2019, 06:52:08 AM

:banana: Jeff Bezos is dropping off my new EVGA GTX1660 Ti today. What do I need to do, if anything, in terms of removing old drivers? As far as the installation DVD goes, will I have the option for installing drivers only? What Nvidea/Geforce bloatware should I avoid or keep?

Thanks!

Magnets.   Use lots of magnets during the install.   It makes the vid card run faster.

#VracFact

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: zack1234 on June 04, 2019, 01:48:31 AM

Round magnets are better :old:

Not the green ones though.

Square greens ones are :old:

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: TequilaChaser on June 04, 2019, 05:33:54 AM

I hope no-one trys to take Vraciu and zack's post, seriously!

Y'all should know better than to post mis-guided suggestions in this particular forum!


Hope this helps

TC

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: Meatwad on June 04, 2019, 06:02:58 AM

I use triangles and make them into little pyramids, so they get powered up and overclocked from the illuminati  :bolt:

Title: Re: Vid card installation
Post by: save on June 22, 2019, 11:55:56 AM

I painted a Yak-3 icon on my graphics card, since then I can have unlimited WEP in all planes  :old:

Like someone said, just download and install correct NVIDIA drivers for your new card, and everyhting shold be working.