Nvidia drivers + side by side configuration error?

BenJ · 7 Feb 2010 at 13:55

Im trying to install 196.21 uk drivers from Nvidia for my 9800gt

Im using windows 7 64 bit and get an error message when i click run on the download

Any ideas folks?

ejr22 · 7 Feb 2010 at 14:14

A quick Google suggests that you should reinstall the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 & 2008 Redistributable Packages.

Make sure you have downloaded and installed all Windows updates also.

hohum · 7 Feb 2010 at 14:14

Don't know why exactly you'd get that error, however you could use something such as WinRAR instead - right click the .exe file, choose to open it with WinRAR, then extract the contents to a empty folder somewhere instead. Should be able to install it then.

BenJ · 7 Feb 2010 at 14:32

ejr22 said:
A quick Google suggests that you should reinstall the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 & 2008 Redistributable Packages.

Make sure you have downloaded and installed all Windows updates also.

Is there such a thing for windows 7? I can only find the files which are relevant for up to XP.

BenJ · 7 Feb 2010 at 14:32

hohum said:
Don't know why exactly you'd get that error, however you could use something such as WinRAR instead - right click the .exe file, choose to open it with WinRAR, then extract the contents to a empty folder somewhere instead. Should be able to install it then.

Winrar cannot execute the .exe. I thought it only did zipped/rar'd files?

ejr22 · 7 Feb 2010 at 14:46

Here are the packages that I have installed on my Windows 7 Home Premium install (Windows update did all of this for me). It might be worth checking which ones you have got/have not got by comparison, if only to eliminate it from your enquiries.

Check by going to Add/Remove programs.

hohum · 7 Feb 2010 at 15:50

BenJ said:
Winrar cannot execute the .exe. I thought it only did zipped/rar'd files?

The file is a SFX archive. Right click the file you've downloaded, choose 'open with WinRAR', and you'll be able to extract the contents just like with any other archive.

BenJ · 7 Feb 2010 at 16:01

hohum said:
The file is a SFX archive. Right click the file you've downloaded, choose 'open with WinRAR', and you'll be able to extract the contents just like with any other archive.

I don't have open with winrar, here is what I get

Try to open it manually and you get

ejr22 said:
Here are the packages that I have installed on my Windows 7 Home Premium install (Windows update did all of this for me). It might be worth checking which ones you have got/have not got by comparison, if only to eliminate it from your enquiries.

Check by going to Add/Remove programs.

Here are the ones I have. All windows updates done

hohum · 7 Feb 2010 at 16:15

The file appears to be corrupt then. No Nvidia icon on the executable either.

BenJ · 7 Feb 2010 at 16:52

Had to delete the file then re-download, rather than overwriting and it is now working

Thanks for the help guys