Welcome back, in today’s video I’ll be showing you how update your Nvidia graphics
card drivers on a Windows 11 PC or laptop.
You can follow this video for any Nvidia graphics card.
Before we go to update the drivers, we first need to check exactly which graphics card
we have so we know exactly which drivers to install.
I’ll guide you through the full installation process, and I’ll try and keep it as simple
as possible for you to follow.
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into the method.
As mentioned, we will begin by finding out exactly which graphics card we have.
If you are confident you know already then feel free to skip this section.
To check what graphics card we have, we first need to go to the device manager.
You can get there by searching for it in the search bar.
In the device manager, look for the option called display adaptors and click on the arrow
next to it to expand this section.
You should now see the name of your graphics card on your PC.
It will probably say NVidia and then a few letters and numbers.
It might be worth making a note of this as we’ll need to know it later.
It is recommended that you have Windows updated to the latest version if you are updating
your graphics card drivers, this can be done by going to the settings page, then Windows
update and finally by clicking on check for updates.
Now that we have our graphics card name, we now need to choose the correct drivers to
install.
Head to the Nvidia link in the description to go to their official downloads page.
For this example, we are going to get the drivers for the RTX 3070 card, but yours will
probably be different so it could be a 960 or 1060 for example.
First select a product type, you will most likely need to choose GeForce to find your
graphics card.
For the product series, I’ll choose the RTX 30 series because my card is an RTX 3070.
If yours is a 1060, then you would choose GeForce 10 series and so on.
You’ll notice that there are two options for most of the product series.
If your device is a laptop, then choose the option with the notebook tag on the end.
If you have a desktop, then choose the one without the word notebook.
Now select your exact graphics card from the product drop-down box below this.
If you don’t see your card in here, you might have selected the wrong product series
so have a look in another one.
So, for us, we’ll choose the RTX 3070 for this example.
With that selected, you now need to choose your operating system.
Choose Windows 11 here.
The next option is whether we want the game ready drivers or studio drivers.
This one is up to you, if you play the latest games choose the game ready driver and if
you want more stability for things like video editing and rendering then choose studio.
You can read more about the difference between the two types by clicking on the question
mark.
Finally, select your language and then click on search.
The next page should have the green download button under the details.
You might need to click on two different green downloads buttons to begin the download.
After clicking on download and once it’s finished downloading, click on it and then
choose yes on the user account control screen.
Click on OK to choose the file location and then wait for the progress of saving the files
to reach 100 percent.
When the installer loads, the first page will give you the option to install GeForce experience
as well as the driver, this is up to you so if you’re not sure I would quickly research
what GeForce experience is if you don’t know so you can decide if you want it.
If you just want the driver, make sure you choose this option.
Now choose the type of installation, its best to choose the recommended option here unless
you know how to install it the custom way.
Allow the installation to complete.
Your PC screen may go black for a few seconds, but this is not something to worry about.
If you run into any problems, I have lots of videos on my channel that could help so
search my videos page to see if I have a video for you.
Once the installation is complete, you can close the installer.
And so that is how to update your Nvidia graphics card drivers on a Windows 11 PC or laptop.
Click the card on screen now to watch a video of mine showing you ten easy ways you can
boost FPS in games in Windows 11.
We’ve covered one of those methods in this video by updating our GPU drivers, so you
should be able to zoom through that video for even more gaming performance.
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