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Is this good for just updating drivers as well?
It is the main reason why i made the guide, for when someone wants to update drivers with a clean install.
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It is the main reason why i made the guide, for when someone wants to update drivers with a clean install.
Ahh okie doke, thanks .
    
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Ahh okie doke, thanks .
No problem matey!
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Here's my instructions for updating drivers in any scenario except when you swap ATI/NV cards, or rollback to old drivers:

1) Run the latest driver package, selecting 'Clean Install' option,
2) Reboot when it's done, even though you may not be told to,
3) Game On!

I been doing this for like 10 years (which means literally hundreds and hundreds of times) every time I install newer drivers (and prior to the 'Clean Install' option in the Forceware, I simply uninstalled the current drivers first via CP and restarted before installing the newest drivers).

It has literally never failed to work 100% perfectly for me.

The only reason I'd ever resort to anything more complicated (such as the instructions in this thread) is if I was switching from ATI to nV, OR if I wanted to install an OLD driver package, one that I knew was fundamentally different like a 100-series driver vs. a 200-series driver.

And Bradley, it's the forum Editors that decide stickies, not the Moderators. I don't recall who's section this is, but I believe it's this gentleman.

Edit: I would also add that if you REALLY and truly want to get rid of your nV drivers completely from a particular install (call it install 1), you ALSO need to have a separate install (install 2) that you can boot into. From install 2, you then have to go into the system32 folder of install 1 and remove the all the files named nv* that have nVidia corporation as their author.

In my experience, these files, which are your ACTUAL in-use driver files, cannot be removed if you're actually logged into the same install, not even in safe mode, and not even by driver sweeper

There's also I believe a drivercache folder somewhere in the Windows folder hierarchy that you'd have to remove the driver files from as well if you want to be 100% rid of them, but I believe if you do the uninstall through Forceware you remove the registry pointers to these files, so they should be basically rendered useless even w/o physically deleting them.
    
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Here's my instructions for updating drivers in any scenario except when you swap ATI/NV cards, or rollback to old drivers:

1) Run the latest driver package, selecting 'Clean Install' option,
2) Reboot when it's done, even though you may not be told to,
3) Game On!

I been doing this for like 10 years (which means literally hundreds and hundreds of times) every time I install newer drivers (and prior to the 'Clean Install' option in the Forceware, I simply uninstalled the current drivers first via CP and restarted before installing the newest drivers).

It has literally never failed to work 100% perfectly for me.

The only reason I'd ever resort to anything more complicated (such as the instructions in this thread) is if I was switching from ATI to nV, OR if I wanted to install an OLD driver package, one that I knew was fundamentally different like a 100-series driver vs. a 200-series driver.

And Bradley, it's the forum Editors that decide stickies, not the Moderators. I don't recall who's section this is, but I believe it's this gentleman.

Edit: I would also add that if you REALLY and truly want to get rid of your nV drivers completely from a particular install (call it install 1), you ALSO need to have a separate install (install 2) that you can boot into. From install 2, you then have to go into the system32 folder of install 1 and remove the all the files named nv* that have nVidia corporation as their author.

In my experience, these files, which are your ACTUAL in-use driver files, cannot be removed if you're actually logged into the same install, not even in safe mode, and not even by driver sweeper

There's also I believe a drivercache folder somewhere in the Windows folder hierarchy that you'd have to remove the driver files from as well if you want to be 100% rid of them, but I believe if you do the uninstall through Forceware you remove the registry pointers to these files, so they should be basically rendered useless even w/o physically deleting them.
My method has been proven to fix some peoples issues so it's up to who ever wants to give my method a shot.
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Well I did it and well my computer hasn't exploded once, let alone BSOD or crash when I benched it for a few hours. Also overclocked the card a bit and it is still stable, so I have to say THANKS!
    
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I actually used your AMD driver removal method when I was switching from NV to AMD since this guide wasn't out at the time. Really helpful as driver sweeper has screwed me over too many times to keep track of.
   
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This is the way to go. Installing a newer driver over an older version on my machine, no matter what version, it breaks my sli, to the point i can't enable it and only one card is used, i don't know why but every time this happens.
When i use this method and clean install, everything works fine.

Using driver cleaners actually forced me to reinstall windows during the bf3 beta.

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Well I did it and well my computer hasn't exploded once, let alone BSOD or crash when I benched it for a few hours. Also overclocked the card a bit and it is still stable, so I have to say THANKS!
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I actually used your AMD driver removal method when I was switching from NV to AMD since this guide wasn't out at the time. Really helpful as driver sweeper has screwed me over too many times to keep track of.
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This is the way to go. Installing a newer driver over an older version on my machine, no matter what version, it breaks my sli, to the point i can't enable it and only one card is used, i don't know why but every time this happens.
When i use this method and clean install, everything works fine.

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Will be giving this method a go later on today when my cards get back from RMA!
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