Nvidia GeForce experience downloading wrong drivers..

Peanut2013uk

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Hi since I've installed Windows 10 my GeForce experience keeps on downloading the wrong drivers it downloads the 32bit drivers and I have a 64 bit Windows. I need to go to the website and download it manually to install. Anyone else got this issue? And any know a fix? Uninstalling and reinstalling nvidia experience doesn't work.
 
Solution
Do NOT use Geforce experience to install drivers anyhow. Ever. Always update GPU card drivers manually using the DDU first. Do a clean of the GPU card drivers as follows:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html


And disable driver updates in Geforce experience. You might actually want to forego use of the GFE altogether, as a lot of users have had unresolvable issues when trying to use it. Hopefully Nvidia will release a more Windows 10 friendly version of GFE before too long.
Do NOT use Geforce experience to install drivers anyhow. Ever. Always update GPU card drivers manually using the DDU first. Do a clean of the GPU card drivers as follows:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html


And disable driver updates in Geforce experience. You might actually want to forego use of the GFE altogether, as a lot of users have had unresolvable issues when trying to use it. Hopefully Nvidia will release a more Windows 10 friendly version of GFE before too long.
 
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Still not fixed ! I'm keeping GFE as it doesn't cause me issues and I would like to know when it is fixed (although I find my Nvidia GPU a pile of crap and cant wait for the new AMD gpu to come out !)

 
Nobody else is having issues anymore. You might try downloading the very latest version of both the drivers and the GeForce experience, running the DDU again, installing the new drivers and THEN installing GeForce experience. As I said before, relying on GeForce experience for installing drivers or keeping them up to date is not a good idea.
 
I know but it sucks to go to their website all the time just to get drivers :S I never had a problem when I had the Radeon HD6970 the ccc worked just fine ! I will reinstall later :) thanks for the tip !
 
Sure, no problem. Honestly, if you just bookmark the Nvidia driver page, it shouldn't take any longer than it does waiting for GeForce experience to look for new drivers. To be honest, using any kind of utility, BIOS, drivers, etc., that automatically do these kinds of things almost always results in problems of some kind sooner or later. Manually updating important aspects of your system is a much better, more controlled method of keeping up to date. Good luck though.
 
ah ok :) well I did the GFE uninstall and driver uninstall got the latest DDU (even though smart scan was being a complete twat) restarted my system and installed the new drivers then the GFE and low and behold GFE said "no compatible GPU detected" -.-' which is always awesome to see... made me giggle though