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

[andybird123]

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.

As mentioned above, I've had to do win10 resets for people who've run a cropper of driver issues not uninstalling and refusing to install new. Your sample size of one (with 4 generation old hardware to boot) is very nice, but it doesn't blanket apply to everyone.

DDU doesnt just do the same as the uninstaller as you use DDU AFTER uninstalling so it would have nothing to do. The fact is AMD driver uninstall leaves behind big chunks of files that can cause problems and even prevent newer versions of AMD drivers from installing.

 

[Armageus]

As mentioned above, I've had to do win10 resets for people who've run a cropper of driver issues not uninstalling and refusing to install new.

Surely that just points to Windows 10 being crappy - can't see how a few inf files, dlls, and registry entries can possible bork an os. To be fair I haven't tried on Windows 10, but on numerous Windows 7 PCs over the last few years have tried multiple graphics cards from different manufacturers - never had an issue with them coexisting.

Your sample size of one (with 4 generation old hardware to boot) is very nice, but it doesn't blanket apply to everyone.

I already mentioned that bleeding edge cards may be different, however my 4 generation old card still uses the same drivers as any other GCN card.

DDU doesnt just do the same as the uninstaller as you use DDU AFTER uninstalling so it would have nothing to do. The fact is AMD driver uninstall leaves behind big chunks of files that can cause problems and even prevent newer versions of AMD drivers from installing.

If you are using DDU then you don't even need to uninstall them (and is essentially is more wasted time), as it blanket removes everything that it thinks are related to AMD or Nvidia - (e.g. via pattern matching etc) rather than actually removing the files and registry keys that the installers know have been created. Years ago things were different (and even getting a single card to work required some amount of voodoo ) - but honestly these days things are a lot better than people still seem to make out.

 

[andybird123]

thats even worse, not uninstalling the drivers before using DDU is a recipe for disaster in and of itself

 

[Armageus]

thats even worse, not uninstalling the drivers before using DDU is a recipe for disaster in and of itself

Surely that's the point of DDU though - to get rid of every last trace of GPU drivers?

There are situations when DDU is useful - but they are few and far between - if the uninstaller either won't run or stops half way through for example.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

It took DDU for me when I made the switch.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Even running DDU you'd end up running the Windows generic display driver unless you booted to safe mode with no network connection, so it's sort of a waste of time unless you're troubleshooting.

 

[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