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Driver update fails

Rediixx

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So I currently want to update my drivers with NVCleanInstall but everytime I try the installation simply fails, it just says "Nvidia installer failed". This is not the first time I'm trying this tool, the driver I currently use was installed with it too, so no idea why this update fails. I'm only using the recommended components + disable telemetry on installer. Could someone please help me?
 
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Regardless of what video card you have installed use DDU ( Display Driver Uninstaller ) to uninstall / cleanup your current driver.
To do so you must reboot into safemode then run DDU and uninstall the Display Driver.
I assume the reason NVCleanstall is failing is because Windows is installing the default display driver for your Graphics Card before you can run NVCleanstall.

One way around this is to download the latest display driver for your card and then let NVCleanstall build an Install package you can run after cleaning with DDU.
So after cleaning with DDU and shutting down you must disconnect from the internet and then reboot to install the driver created by NVCleasntall.
Then you can connect the internet again and any further driver updates using NVCleanstall will work just fine.
 

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Yeah that's what I would try, too. Do let us know if DDU helped. If you have the time, try if the unmodified NVIDIA installer works (to rule out that it's an NVCleanstall issue)
 

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Yeah that's what I would try, too. Do let us know if DDU helped. If you have the time, try if the unmodified NVIDIA installer works (to rule out that it's an NVCleanstall issue)
Regardless of what video card you have installed use DDU ( Display Driver Uninstaller ) to uninstall / cleanup your current driver.
To do so you must reboot into safemode then run DDU and uninstall the Display Driver.
I assume the reason NVCleanstall is failing is because Windows is installing the default display driver for your Graphics Card before you can run NVCleanstall.

One way around this is to download the latest display driver for your card and then let NVCleanstall build an Install package you can run after cleaning with DDU.
So after cleaning with DDU and shutting down you must disconnect from the internet and then reboot to install the driver created by NVCleasntall.
Then you can connect the internet again and any further driver updates using NVCleanstall will work just fine.
Hey guys, thanks for the help. Turns out this had nothing to do with NVCleanInstall and everything to do with me not knowing how to set up correctly a group policy. Instead of telling Windows to not automatically update my AMD drivers via hardware id instead I selected via hardware class, soooo, yeah that was on me. Sorry for the trouble.
 
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