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I would advise you to do a complete reinstall of your drivers. It'll just allow the upgrade process to be smoother.

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I just purchased a G1 Gaming GTX 970 .. anyway lets get to the question. I was wondering since NVIDIA cards use the same driver, would I have to uninstall the old driver, Or can I just install the 970 without driver deletions. 

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I would advise you to do a complete reinstall of your drivers. It'll just allow the upgrade process to be smoother.

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Its always better to do a clean reinstall of the drivers.

 

but you could... get away without doing it. Not rec. though, you could get yourself instability.

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you want to do a reinstall so that the drivers detect your new GPU properly

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Should just load up the OS, "Detecting new hardware... Installing new hardware" something like that, and just requires a restart... All good to go..

 

 

But yeah, just uninstall then clean with DriverSweeper (I think it's changed to something else)... and install fresh one... 

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I would advise you to do a complete reinstall of your drivers. It'll just allow the upgrade process to be smoother.

Sounds good. Thankyou wasn't 100% sure. 

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I would advise you to do a complete reinstall of your drivers. It'll just allow the upgrade process to be smoother.

Also, I have another question to completely get rid of the drivers, Should I use DDU? or is there another program you recommend.

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Also, I have another question to completely get rid of the drivers, Should I use DDU? or is there another program you recommend.

just uninstall drivers via the control pannel

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Also, I have another question to completely get rid of the drivers, Should I use DDU? or is there another program you recommend.

The normal method should be fine, but I personally would use DDU.

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