It's also often not enough to simply install the drivers that came on disk with the graphics card or to just find and download current drivers. Sometimes it is if they've kept up with keeping the drivers current but more often it is not.Ĭhoosing the clean install option in the actual driver installation may not be the answer either as some files, folders or registry settings are left intact, rather than being completely removed as when done with the DDU, so I recommend instead using the DDU to ensure a complete removal of the existing installation AND settings. Many users upgrading from older cards or integrated graphics that use older driver versions by the same OEM, meaning Nvidia or AMD based, often assume it will be a bang, bang process.
How to do a CLEANinstall of your graphics card drivers using the Wagnard tools Display Driver UninstallerĪ major issue on many systems is the presence of multiple graphics card drivers or drivers that have been incompletely uninstalled followed by the installation of newer drivers that can result in rogue registry entries and other issues.