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Changing from Nvidia to AMD

CookiezFort
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I will be getting my friends 7770 as an upgrade to my gt 630. How should i go about uninstalling my Nvidia drivers and installing AMD ones?

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Completely uninstall your Nvidia drivers, download AMD drivers, remove Nvidia card, insert AMD card, install AMD drivers.

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I will be getting my friends 7770 as an upgrade to my gt 630. How should i go about uninstalling my Nvidia drivers and installing AMD ones?

uninstall drivers, remove card, insert card, install drivers

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I will be getting my friends 7770 as an upgrade to my gt 630. How should i go about uninstalling my Nvidia drivers and installing AMD ones?

Use this to uninstall the Nvidia driver and download the drivers for your 7770 from the AMD website or wait half an hour until windows update installs them automatically.

 

edit: indeed remove Nvidia card after driver uninstall and install the AMD card before the driver install.

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1. Download new driver and put the .exe on your desktop.

2. Download DDU: http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/

3. Open it and it asks to boot in safe mode, boot into safe mode.

4. when it's booted in safe mode DDU should automatically open.

5. Press Set Windows automatic driver installation to default.

6. Select Nvidia in the drop down menu.

7. Press uninstall and DO NOT restart.

8. Replace GPU

9. Boot Windows and install the downloaded driver.

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I will be getting my friends 7770 as an upgrade to my gt 630. How should i go about uninstalling my Nvidia drivers and installing AMD ones?

The best way for you would be to grab DDU first. Like above. Follow it carefully. Then it will reboot you in safemode to uninstall the nvidia drivers.

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

Then once that is finished it may restart again, - Just shut the system down to then swap out your GPU.

 

Once installed you may re-power the system. 

Allow windows to do it's thang.  

 

Then head over to http://support.amd.com/en-us/download and choose the driver for your OS.

Honestly I did the same thing you are doing Cookiez, but I went from an AMD XFX 7870 DD (which I would have highly recommended if you'r going with a 7000 series card.) to an nVidia EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0 which has 4GB of VRAM and love the switch so far.

Let us know though what you're thoughts are with the AMD chipset if it's your first time using amd over nvidia, since I myself have been a long time user of AMDs products.

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