How to Install & Uninstall Any GPU Driver the RIGHT Way - The Ultimate Guide

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:24 - Ways to Uninstall GPU Drivers
2:10 - Disable CPU & GPU Overclocks
2:51 - Downloading DDU & GPU Drivers
3:10 - Before You Enable Safe Mode
4:28 - Enabling Safe Mode and Uninstalling Drivers
6:14 - Installing GPU Drivers
8:08 - Setting a Fan Curve
7:38 - Unstable Driver Versions
8:38 - Final Words

[theviewer]

cheers you're a good help my drivers were a little weird lately I recently cleaned up and installed drivers

[cssorkinman]

Great point about new drivers not playing well with existing overclocks. My 3090 has been prone to that particularly with my older systems. Thanks for the Vid!

[MrTinglez]

this guy is a champ. Thank you so much this helped me with a bunch of games.

[Simon_Hawkshaw]

Just recently noticed that the latest version of DDU didn't fully uninstall, still showing in Windows 11 after safe boot removal, my AMD 24.1.1 driver. Removed the AMD software from Windows Settings Apps, and then reran DDU to get it fully Uninstaller. May just be an anomaly on my system. Thanks for your time and efforts to share this with us all.

[pamus]

Oh !
I wouldn't know, Just been using all AMD for 20 years with Linux. Drivers have always been included in the kernel except around 2010s when you had to download catalyst to install.

[christopherjames]

Hey, RA. What country are you in? Just curious. You speak great English but have an accent. Keep up the great work!

[mungojerrie]

Nice Kraber hipfire!

Always done driver updates via DDU -> Reboot -> New driver -> Reboot
Tried DDU'ing both from Safe Mode and normally, never observed any difference.

Also I will never accept any other way of getting into Safe Mode other than mashing F8 on boot lol.

[Pillokun]

I have never had any issues with drivers on the nvidia side of things, on amd though... ddu everytime at least with the rdna2 and 3 cards.

heck I have an OS disk that spans from 2012 and 3770k that had win 7, then upgraded to 10, which had about 10-12 systems with plenty of amd and nvidia gpus and when I do come across an issue I use my second disk to see if my old bloated os installation on that sata ssd is the issue. More ofthen than not I actually have more issues with my clean os disk than the bloated one which is funny, and yes that includes having issues with am5 platform and rdna2/3 gpus. funny.