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

ShiWarrior

ShiWarrior

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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
 
^ uninstall the AMD drivers and go to the default windows vga, remove the AMD card, put the nvidia one in but dont install drivers yet, run DDU, reboot and then install nv drivers
 
andybird123 said:
^ uninstall the AMD drivers and go to the default windows vga, remove the AMD card, put the nvidia one in but dont install drivers yet, run DDU, reboot and then install nv drivers
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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.
 
V F said:
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.
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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) ?
 
What would happen if he just chucks the nVidia card in and installs the drivers?

Will there be conflicts?

I went from nVidia to AMD and back again just by installing the cards and drivers and then uninstalling the old drivers. Did I make a booboo?

It never caused any problems. At the time I was using HDMI and I don't think the AMD card played well with my TV though.
 
TallPaul1878 said:
What would happen if he just chucks the nVidia card in and installs the drivers?

Will there be conflicts?

I went from nVidia to AMD and back again just by installing the cards and drivers and then uninstalling the old drivers. Did I make a booboo?

It never caused any problems. At the time I was using HDMI and I don't think the AMD card played well with my TV though.
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you can sometimes get away with it, but I've had problems even just going between AMD driver versions, let alone trying to go to nvidia
 
People still do all this crap? You can just uninstall the drivers the standard way, swap cards and install the new drivers.

Heck uninstalling the old drivers isn’t even required since Windows has supported multiple different vendor cards since like Windows 7.
 
Broken Hope said:
People still do all this crap? You can just uninstall the drivers the standard way, swap cards and install the new drivers.

Heck uninstalling the old drivers isn’t even required since Windows has supported multiple different vendor cards since like Windows 7.
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in theory. Enough of us have had problems (even going AMD to AMD let alone AMD to nvidia) to take the precaution... 90% of the time you will probably get away with it, but if you hit that 10% and get problems then it can become a complete nightmare and even DDU can't get you unstuck - yes I have had to do windows 10 resets on people's machines because they ignored the advice to do DDU as part of the uninstall
 
ShiWarrior said:
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) ?
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Well because I always had black screen issues with CrossFire uninstalling drivers from the desktop and the screen not returning.

I went into safe mode first.
Uninstall.
Ran DDU with remove and shutdown option.
Swapped cards.
Install drivers for new card.


andybird123 said:
in theory. Enough of us have had problems (even going AMD to AMD let alone AMD to nvidia) to take the precaution... 90% of the time you will probably get away with it, but if you hit that 10% and get problems then it can become a complete nightmare and even DDU can't get you unstuck - yes I have had to do windows 10 resets on people's machines because they ignored the advice to do DDU as part of the uninstall
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...but hey, it is just crap, right? As Broken Hope listed it so nicely.
 
V F said:
...but hey, it is just crap, right? As Broken Hope listed it so nicely.
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It is crap though, and has been for years.

You don't even have to remove the other drivers (although you will likely get a box on boot saying no AMD card detected), as the drivers will happily coexist (and yes you can have an AMD and a NVidia card in the same machine!)

I bet if you grabbed a copy of procmon or similar and watched what DDU does Vs the official uninstallers they would be identical.
 
V F said:
Until you run into issues.
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Maybe in the olden days or at the bleeding edge (e.g. brand new graphics cards), but personally never had any issues.

My work pc has 3 sets of graphics drivers installed, for the AMD 260x, NV GT710 and Intel onboard - not once had an issue.
 
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 ?
 
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