So I just installed the latest video driver
I'm getting graphical glitches my cards overheating all these weird things are happening. My car just died
Does this sound familiar to you guys?
It should I read a lot that you guys get this. I've never gotten it. Let me show you why I never got it.
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Notification so that you get notified every time I release a new video, so let's get moving. Alright guys, so like I mentioned before
DDU is used to strip out old drivers so that you can install new drivers now
the reason why I do it so much is
humans, write drivers we all make mistakes
Now there could be something in the newer driver that messes around with the old driver doesn't let a certain thing uninstall
causing big problems like
overeating video cards, video cards dying, and
You know odd graphic glitches during games. It's gonna happen to AMD, Nvidia,
Intel, it's gonna happen to everybody. Now. A lot of people I've seen have had these issues. I have personally never had them
I like to think it's because I used DDU. So I'm gonna show you guys how to do that real quick
So we're gonna go ahead open up a browser
Brand new OS so I'm going go to Wagnardsoft.com
Okay, so on Wagnardsoft.com
I'm gonna go ahead over here to where it says display driver uninstaller DDU. Click on that guy
I'm not mentioning the version number because tomorrow it could be a different version number whatever version it is. Click on that one
scroll down a little tiny bit, click here where it says click here for download and support and
Then scroll down a little tiny bit more official download here
Okay, so it's gonna go ahead and that over hear. Now while I'm doing that
Because I do have an EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC Ultra.
I'm gonna go to Nvidia comm
Geforce driver
I'm going to download the latest in the greatest driver
Okay, and then game ready driver WHQL?
Download okay, it's all going to take a few seconds. Now what I did there is
We're going to reboot into well actually
I'm gonna go ahead and extract DDU now then we're gonna boot into safe mode
Run DDU and then we're gonna reboot back into Windows and install the driver
There is a little bit of a catch in safe mode and I'll show you that in one sec
So again DDU is right here. I'm just gonna click on it and
and then,...
I'm going to choose to install it in, or to extract it to the DDU folder
And I'm just copying it here. That way I can extract it. Okay, and then I just open up Explorer here
Okay, and now I'm gonna go into that folder and I'm going to run this guy right over here
Alright seems to be the first time just read that it's gonna help you click OK
Okay now here this is pretty important. So Nvidia specific option. We're gonna go ahead and move
This folder and remove physics
Now that folder comes up the Nvidia folder comes, up when you install drivers the Nvidia package
Extracts them all into that folder and then when it's done extracting it runs the setup from that folder
Okay, and then physics in case you leave it behind something happens in your uninstaller?
and then for AMD specific remove the C:
AMD folder and
That's the same thing as the Nvidia folder
It's just gonna copy it's going to extract there and then install from there. Now. The other thing is normally this would come
Unchecked over here "Prevent downloads of drivers from Windows updates when Windows Search for a new driver"
Weird English there. So put a check in here now why that's important is because
after we boot into safe mode run DDU, and then
Uninstall the drivers, then come back into regular windows to reinstall the nvidia drivers if you leave that unchecked
Microsoft is going to immediately run Windows Update and start downloading the latest and greatest
Windows Hardware quality lab certified driver that they have a Windows Update and that's not what you want
Ok, so then I'm gonna click close over here
And ok over here, and I'm just gonna go ahead and close this now
We're going to want to right click on the start button
Hover over shut down or sign up
Hold on the left shift key and then click restart. Now what that does?
It goes ahead and puts you into this prompt so that we can select to boot into safe mode
Now I click over here under "Troubleshoot"
Then I click "Advanced Options"
"Startup settings"
Alright and restart to say change windows options such as and now we click restart
You're gonna see me fumbling over here for a quick second. I have to re-enable the capture card to capture when it's rebooting
Okay. So now startup settings. I'm gonna go ahead and select number 4 "Enable Safe Mode" you can do whichever one you'd like there
Ok
All right now I'm gonna enter in my credentials
Alright so now we're in Windows we're gonna go ahead and go to that folder that
DDU folder right over here and
Just run display drive with uninstaller
We can close this out now here
"Select Device Driver" the very first one over here. We're gonna select GPU
And now we're going to select whatever video card we have
Nvidia, AMD, or Intel.
I'm gonna select Nvidia. That's what I have
Okay, and then now?
I'm gonna click, click clean and restart
This is gonna take anywhere from 10 seconds up to a minute
Maybe a little bit longer depending on how fast or slow your machine is so you can see what it's doing over here
It's going in into everywhere that it finds all these drivers and all these INI files
and everything and just
Deleting everything one by one making sure it's gone and making sure it's clean
Ok, I mentioned this is a clean install
Okay now it's restarting
So one sec. Well, I fumble over here. Okay, so
That is a clean install. I've already installed the video drivers
So that's why it did all that. Now if you haven't installed AMD, Nvidia or Intel it still has
Click ok here
It still has its basic drivers show you can run all three of them if you'd like, that's ok
So one second while I log in alright?
So now we're in Windows and hold on while I stop everything that's going to be starting. Ok. Nothing right now
So I'm gonna go ahead into over here and go into downloads now
We see, Oh, there goes everything wanting to start again
Ok now I'm gonna go ahead and run for 431.60 (NVIDIA DRIVER VERSION)
These are the latest video drivers for the EVGA RTX
2080 XC Ultra card now clicking. Ok, remember, it deleted that Nvidia folder if there was one
So, let's see, make sure let's see if there's one there already
See it's gone, and I had already installed it. So it was there before
Now go ahead and install
Well, and then after this it's going to be a regular install like you've always done before
Except now there is no trash, there is no nothing
It is a perfectly clean install
Now you have to remember the reason I like to use this is again to remove any
Potential issue that's going to arise now
Sometimes you guys might have seen here that as you're installing these drivers the Nvidia drivers specifically
I'm not sure button and the Intel on this part, but it might say oh there's an issue
That's because Microsoft is installing the video drivers in the background. But anyway, so
You will, Some people are going to say but there's an uninstaller for everything
There is, but you cannot run the uninstaller and win, in safe mode
In safe mode all the drivers are disabled. There are no special drivers and
that's the best time to uninstall all that stuff because
Nothing's hooking on to those drivers
no other driver is hooking on to it, which potentially happens a lot which causes issues so
agree and continue custom and
Then even during the install they give you this option perform a clean install
but because you're in regular Windows, you can get that issue as well and
All right, and that's about it. The rest is going to be totally the same. So I'll skip that for you guys
But uh, if you have any questions or concerns, please do list them below
I'd be more than happy to help you guys any question you may have
All right, guys
Iggy ou. See you guys