Latest Nvidia driver update issue

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

So, there's a new update for Nvidia GPUs, and I went to install as I have done with no issue for years.

 

Anyway, I went for the Express Installation (as I always do) and about halfway through - as the green bar fills up to show the installation progress - it suddenly fails.

 

A message pops up about the Installation failing and that's it.

I've never had the issue before and I am confused as to why it is not working.

I did the usual Google search and it wasn't much help.

 

So, has anyone had an issue with this update, or previous updates, and if you did how did you fix the problem?

 

Thanks, in advance, guys and gals.

[dizmo]

Use DDU to remove the old drivers, try again.

[Mark Kaine]

Thats why i always manually update, you just got incredibly lucky if you had no issues so far…

 

well, obvious answer is DDU then install  either newest driver or the previous one manually (i would recommend previous one because the newest one seems to have issue more than normally)

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

2 hours ago, dizmo said:

Use DDU to remove the old drivers, try again.

What is DDU?

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

2 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Thats why i always manually update, you just got incredibly lucky if you had no issues so far…

 

well, obvious answer is DDU then install  either newest driver or the previous one manually (i would recommend previous one because the newest one seems to have issue more than normally)

I don't know about lucky per se.

 

I just hit install and it always does it with no issues.

[Mark Kaine]

1 minute ago, Maury Sells Wigs said:

I don't know about lucky per se.

 

I just hit install and it always does it with no issues.

well its a view point thing, for me every 2nd or so nvidia update is f^ and i need to DDU, so if yours werent for so long , that is incredibly lucky from my perspective.

 

4 minutes ago, Maury Sells Wigs said:

What is DDU?

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

 

 

follow the instructions, its actually very clearly laid out, especially do it in safe mode.

 

and maybe download the last 2 nvidia drivers beforehand, as said i would  install  the previous one and see how it goes (after DDU'ing whatever is left from your current one)

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Graphics Cards

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

19 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

well its a view point thing, for me every 2nd or so nvidia update is f^ and i need to DDU, so if yours werent for so long , that is incredibly lucky from my perspective.

 

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

 

 

follow the instructions, its actually very clearly laid out, especially do it in safe mode.

 

and maybe download the last 2 nvidia drivers beforehand, as said i would  install  the previous one and see how it goes (after DDU'ing whatever is left from your current one)

Fair enough, and thanks for the link, Mark.

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

Update: I tried the update this morning and it worked fine.

 

Thanks, those who offered advice.

[FriendlyNeighberhoodGamer]

On 1/25/2022 at 1:35 PM, Maury Sells Wigs said:

Update: I tried the update this morning and it worked fine.

 

Thanks, those who offered advice.

Yeah I had a similar problem.  The only difference was instead of the update failing, it ramped up my ram usage so bad that I couldn't play any game, not even a roblox game, at any playable FPS.  I'm talking less than a single fps.  But I used the clean install or whatever its called (the installation option that deletes the previous drivers instead of updating on top of the current ones) and now my computer is fine.  Nvidia needs to fix they're drivers.  I don't even have an old gpu.  I am the proud owner of a GTX 1650 OC from gigabyte so I don't understand what Nvidia's problem is.