Need advice quick. GPU drivers

[Hielke]

Hi guys!

 

I currently have my 1080ti installed with 1080ti drivers. I'm about to sell my old 970 in half an hour. Those people probably want to test the card. Can I insert the 970 while keeping the 1080ti drivers? Or do I have to delete the drivers of the 1080ti and install 970 drivers? After which I would need to switch back again..

[Mira Yurizaki]

You can install the 970 drivers alongside the 1080 Ti drivers. Windows won't care.

[Donny_Chen]

Windows will detect which driver to use for which card is plugged in the PCI-e slot,  Shouldn't matter, so you should be fine.  

 

[Hielke]

5 minutes ago, Donny_Chen said:

Windows will detect which driver to use for which card is plugged in the PCI-e slot,  Shouldn't matter, so you should be fine.  

 

So I can just plug in the 970 without deleting my 1080ti drivers through DDU?

[Hielke]

7 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

You can install the 970 drivers alongside the 1080 Ti drivers. Windows won't care.

Alright, will DDU detect both drivers when trying to delete them? Or will DDU only detect one of them?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Hielke said:

Alright, will DDU detect both drivers when trying to delete them? Or will DDU only detect one of them?

It should detect everything.

[App4that]

11 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

You can install the 970 drivers alongside the 1080 Ti drivers. Windows won't care.

Won't the Nvidia driver uninstall the 1080ti driver in the process? Never seen an option to keep the old. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, App4that said:

Won't the Nvidia driver uninstall the 1080ti driver in the process? Never seen an option to keep the old. 

I don't see why it would do that when you can mix and match cards. The only reason why there's no option to keep the old is because it doesn't do anything with it.

 

I don't believe driver installers of any sort uninstall drivers for hardware not within its scope, even if it's from the same vendor. I mean, there's the off chance you may need the old hardware.

[Donny_Chen]

Sorry,  I ate a bad taco and totally paying for it.....

 

You should be 100% fine.  

 

Kind of a rudimentary explanation for how drivers work but....

 

You install a Driver  > driver gets stored into Windows System Folder 

You insert a New Card >  Windows looks through to see if it can locate a driver    

If it can, it will either use it automatically,  Ask you first and you will get a prompt, OR  you have to tell windows in device manage to update the driver.

 

Driver folder will always store the drivers until they are either replaced or deleted!  

Soo unless your 1080 driver "replaces" the 970 driver,  the most you would have to do is run nvidia experience again/device manager. 

 

side note:  chipotle is doing a teachers/educators get a bogo.

 

 

 

[App4that]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I don't see why it would do that when you can mix and match cards. The only reason why there's no option to keep the old is because it doesn't do anything with it.

 

I don't believe driver installers of any sort uninstall drivers for hardware not within its scope, even if it's from the same vendor. I mean, there's the off chance you may need the old hardware.

Removing the old driver is part of the manual driver installation for Nvidia. 

[pas008]

did this to sell my old gtx460 on haswell system

had 2x970 with 650ti installed also with 650ti on different drivers because of some wonky drivers for 6xx series

popped in 460 also ws motherboard just did device manager driver install by picking the folder for the drivers

then showed them I used 460 as primary card and ran quick valley bench

removed and done, never heard from them again

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

36 minutes ago, App4that said:

Removing the old driver is part of the manual driver installation for Nvidia. 

The old driver for the hardware for which the driver is compatible. If you're updating a GTX 970 driver, it should only remove the older driver for the GTX 970.

 

However I'm also led to believe NVIDIA has a unified driver so it doesn't matter anyway

[App4that]

5 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The old driver for the hardware for which the driver is compatible. If you're updating a GTX 970 driver, it should only remove the older driver for the GTX 970.

 

However I'm also led to believe NVIDIA has a unified driver so it doesn't matter anyway

Bingo, might not get the most performance but should at least boot. Worst case Windows loads a default driver. Unless you've disabled that or DDU has. 

[DeLorian]

You'll be fine, don't worry.

[Mick Naughty]

Technically it’s the same driver, that you install. The basic drivers will install and remove themselves. 

 

Just run it along side it, or just put it in. You don’t need to fresh install a driver for just a test. 

 

May not run perfectly but I doubt you will notice a difference in something like a unigine benchmark.