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old GPU and latest drivers. Good or bad

Russ holmes

Russ holmes

Russ holmes

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Hi. I donated a old pc to a mate to see if his kid was into them before dropping a load of money on a new one. It's a i5 4670k with a gtx770 so it's dated but still runs fortnite pretty well which is all he wanted. Before I gave it him I did a fresh windows install. And downloaded the latest Nvidia driver 461.40. . It's been fine till today when it seems windows did some updates and the GPU became undetected. So I moved to internal graphics and did some troubleshooting and the driver 461.40 was showing available again. But when I tried to download it said it wasn't compatible with the version of Windows. Anyways I had to do a PC reset / restore before the driver would download and it's now working again. I'm Not sure which updates went in today or what they were. But on an old GPU is it best to not update it's drivers anymore, does windows auto update the GPU,, on my PC I do it manually from gforce experience. I've never had the problem with the old pc before I always installed the GPU drivers manually. I'm Wondering if it's a setting or something I didn't turn on / off after I'd done the fresh install, thanks.
 
Windows 10 will force update unless disabled, but it doesn't seem to happen super regularly.

I would personally choose the latest driver from around the time the GPU was discontinued and 'official' driver support ended. Using the latest driver can have weird behaviour with old GPUs.
 
Tetras said:
Windows 10 will force update unless disabled, but it doesn't seem to happen super regularly.

I would personally choose the latest driver from around the time the GPU was discontinued and 'official' driver support ended. Using the latest driver can have weird behaviour with old GPUs.
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Hi. Thanks for that. Well I know at least the last driver was ok and I've kept it up to date till now. So it could just be the newest one that it doesn't agree with. . I'll use DDU to remove them how do I choose an earlier driver to put back in. I've only ever done the latest one.
 
Tetras said:
Windows 10 will force update unless disabled, but it doesn't seem to happen super regularly.

I would personally choose the latest driver from around the time the GPU was discontinued and 'official' driver support ended. Using the latest driver can have weird behaviour with old GPUs.
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You can create a local group policy that stops that happening altogether.
 
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