Is uninstalling drivers before updating your gpu safe?

[Mohamed_57]

I don't know much about computers nor how drivers work. Does uninstalling old drivers before an update allow the gpu to function?

 

[junkeymonkey]

I all ways uninstall drivers when I change out cards good practice in my opinion

uninstall driver - remove card - add new card - reinstall drivers

if just updating the driver its best to uninstall


down load new driver and save it -- uninstall old driver - follow prompts [may need to reboot] - start back up to desktop card should be on windows standard vga default driver - if so then go to new driver you downloaded and run it to install - follow prompts

 

[junkeymonkey]

why the down vote ??

if you look at / in your drivers footnotes there should be install / uninstall steps to help they can be viewed from the drivers support page

[just example -- page 40]

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/364.51/364.51-win10-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf


''Driver Install How-to Articles''
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download