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Swapping over GPU

alphaomega16

alphaomega16

alphaomega16

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Hello guys, since I rarely get a GPU unless its when I upgrade which means new system and new hard drives and clean windows install I am not familiar with how to go about swapping them over.

I had a quick search and saw that "Display Driver Uninstaller" is the way to go but do I uninstall everything from the control panel first or do I just run this program ? Also should I really be in safe mode to do this ?

I have already downloaded drivers for my 1080 and they are sitting on my Desktop waiting, also do I have to install the experience program thing as I have seen a few people have had trouble with that.
 
What card have you got at the minute? if it's another fairly NVIDIA card, then you don't need to do anything - just swap the cards over, the new one should be detected and away you go.

If going from AMD to NVIDIA, then probably best to uninstall via control panel, shut down, replace card then install the NVIDIA drivers.

DDU in most cases isn't necessary these days, as both AMD and NVIDIA drivers are happy to coexist with each other, and their built in uninstallers are a lot more reliable.
 
alphaomega16 said:
They are 2 years old.
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Uninstall them via control panel, shut down swap cards and then start up and install new drivers.

The question is, why were you running 2 year old drivers - even on old cards sometimes you get better performance with newer drivers :)
 
Armageus said:
Uninstall them via control panel, shut down swap cards and then start up and install new drivers.

The question is, why were you running 2 year old drivers - even on old cards sometimes you get better performance with newer drivers :)
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too much of a headache if things go wrong, I end up saying **** it and just reinstalling windows lol.
 
Got it swapped over, drivers installed.

Installed MSI Gaming App for control of the LED lights and it ended up adding over a dozen processes that were running but I dont know how it has that many since it was closed down after I finished modifying the color but still it left all of these running in the background (and more, this is just what I could identify as new)

EyeRest.exe
GamingApp_Service.exe
GamingHotKey_Service.exe
MSI_ActiveX_Service.exe
MsiGamingOSD_x64
MsiGamingOSD_x86
mauchost.exe
TriggerModeMonitor
VideoCardMonitorII.exe
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That is just what I could identify.

Also there are a few more new processes running as well.

NVDisplay.Container.exe x2
NvTelemetryContainer.exe "32

Does anybody know of a non bloatware way of modifying the color of the card.
 
alphaomega16 said:
Got it swapped over, drivers installed.

Installed MSI Gaming App for control of the LED lights and it ended up adding over a dozen processes that were running but I dont know how it has that many since it was closed down after I finished modifying the color but still it left all of these running in the background (and more, this is just what I could identify as new)
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The msi app installs a service (msi active x something), I assume it's that, that starts the rest. I got a load running after installing the app to set the colour on my Quicksilver 1070. The cards don't seem to have memory to save the colour settings, so need something to do it when windows boots. I think the one responsible for the colour setting is MSI_LED.exe. I've not messed around too much because I'm lazy and they don't seem to be doing much harm.

Maybe try disabling the service and setting MSI_LED as a startup item manually. See if it still loads the led settings without the rest.
 
Frustrating they don't just do a basic app for that one thing as I already use MSI Afterburner for the overlay and they have no options to disable the rest of the stuff.
 
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