Going from AMD back to NVIDIA , best way to install?

[ShiWarrior]

Since the mining craze I've been desperately looking to upgrade my ancient HD 7850

finally just bought a ASUS strix GTX 970 to replace it with

Although I have a freesync monitor, my skylake CPU is more than capable

playing new games on my HD 7850 tell me i am running out of memory and slows down a little, but seems to play fine otherwise in 1080p


so anyway, currently got my radeon installed on windows 10 64
whats a good/best way of changing cards ?

do i need to just pull it out and then remove the old drivers?

thanks

 

[ShiWarrior]

Use DDU http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Thanks for that !
i'll be using that!

 

[ShiWarrior]

thanks all !

 

[ShiWarrior]

It tells you what to do. Uninstall, boot to safe mode, run DDU, pick an option (which is usually remove and shutdown) and before all that you should have had the NVIDIA drivers downloaded ready to install. To be on the safe side disconnect the Ethernet. So Windows doesn't attempt to download anything.

when do you boot to safe mode ? (going by what Andi has put)

do you goto safe mode after you put the nvidia card in and run DDU (whilst still in safe mode) ?

 

[ShiWarrior]

looks like the best way then :

Boot into safe mode
Uninstall drivers (not using DDU)
Run DDU (use option remove & shut down)
swap over Graphics cards
Turn PC on
Install Nvidia dsrivers

job done ?

 

[ShiWarrior]

it went all ok
but now my monitor isn't showing up, its saying "generic"
i have an Acer XF270H 144HZ screen

tried uninstalling it, but no joy
downloaded the windows 8.1 drivers, which wont install as there are no windows 10 drivers