February 11, 20251 yr Author 2 hours ago, abrams_tank said: When you install a new NVidia driver, in theory, all the files should be overwritten, nothing is corrupted, and the install should just work. But sometimes that doesn't happen. Files get left behind, files are corrupted, then the driver becomes corrupted, etc. That's where DDU comes in, it cleans everything so that your Nvdia driver can be installed cleanly. I suggest in the future, only install a new NVidia driver if you really need to. If you don't need to install a new NVidia driver, then don't. And don't mess with DDU unless you really need to - I have never used DDU myself, my NVidia driver installations have always been normal and successful. For Windows, it's a little different because there are always new security vulnerabilities. So if there is a new security vulnerability, you should install the new Windows update. But for video drivers, I don't think it's as critical to install as a Windows update. Good advice. Roy i7-10700 CPU @2.90 GHz, 32 GB Ram, nVadia GTX1660ti, Samsung 1 TB SSD Drive
February 11, 20251 yr 7 minutes ago, Roy Warren said: Good advice. Roy I'm really happy to hear you were finally able to get it up and running. 5800X3D. 32 GB RAM. 1TB SATA SSD. 3TB HDD. RX 9070XT.
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