Drivers when switching GPU

[PhillyConlan]

Hi,

 

I have bought an AMD GPU which will be arriving Monday. My question is, do I need to uninstall Nvidia drivers before I put the AMD GPU in or will it boot with the drivers installed?

 

I wasn't sure if uninstalling drivers with the Nvidia card plugged in would cause issues 

[Constantin]

3 minutes ago, PhillyConlan said:

Hi,

 

I have bought an AMD GPU which will be arriving Monday. My question is, do I need to uninstall Nvidia drivers before I put the AMD GPU in or will it boot with the drivers installed?

 

I wasn't sure if uninstalling drivers with the Nvidia card plugged in would cause issues 

No mater what you do, it will work.

The steps by the book are

1: uninstall the Nvidia driver

2:remove the GPU

3:Plug the new GPU

4:install the drivers for the new GPU

[Whiro]

2 hours ago, PhillyConlan said:

Hi,

 

I have bought an AMD GPU which will be arriving Monday. My question is, do I need to uninstall Nvidia drivers before I put the AMD GPU in or will it boot with the drivers installed?

 

I wasn't sure if uninstalling drivers with the Nvidia card plugged in would cause issues 

When you switching from Nvidia to AMD is best to use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller). Just follow the steps from website 

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
 

[PhillyConlan]

4 hours ago, Whiro said:

When you switching from Nvidia to AMD is best to use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller). Just follow the steps from website 

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
 

I didn't know about that, thanks!

[ChaosClarity]

I can tell you that when I switched from a 1070 to a 5700xt, I didn’t uninstall anything. I literally just swapped the cards, booted in to windows, then installed the amd drivers and off I went. Zero issues.

[Whiro]

12 minutes ago, ChaosClarity said:

I can tell you that when I switched from a 1070 to a 5700xt, I didn’t uninstall anything. I literally just swapped the cards, booted in to windows, then installed the amd drivers and off I went. Zero issues.

You must be quite lucky than, you should start playing lottery  

Have a look around this forum how many ppl had a problem with drivers and actually ddu helped. I’ve been around long enough to know it’s a good practice to do nice clean from old drivers, it’ll definitely not gonna harm doing it.

[LOST TALE]

2 hours ago, Whiro said:

You must be quite lucky than, you should start playing lottery  

Have a look around this forum how many ppl had a problem with drivers and actually ddu helped. I’ve been around long enough to know it’s a good practice to do nice clean from old drivers, it’ll definitely not gonna harm doing it.

Well I'm a lottery winner too.

[PhillyConlan]

9 hours ago, ChaosClarity said:

I can tell you that when I switched from a 1070 to a 5700xt, I didn’t uninstall anything. I literally just swapped the cards, booted in to windows, then installed the amd drivers and off I went. Zero issues.

That's what I hope would happen but if it didn't work i'd be so annoyed

9 hours ago, Whiro said:

You must be quite lucky than, you should start playing lottery  

Have a look around this forum how many ppl had a problem with drivers and actually ddu helped. I’ve been around long enough to know it’s a good practice to do nice clean from old drivers, it’ll definitely not gonna harm doing it.

That seems teh best thing to do. I'm actually getting new mobo and cpu as well so I might just do a fresh windows install