Geforce experience old drivers

Torne

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May 13, 2012
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Hey, I have been noticing over the past year, some of my games have either been having some stuttering issues, or I get less fps on those titles. It is all kinds of games, from games like Terraria and Crusader Kings 2 with the stuttering to Europa Universalis 4 and Skyrim with the bad fps. MY computer should in theory be able to handle those games with ease. Then I started wondering if when geforce experience updated my gpu if it was keeping my old drivers. I looked around and it turns out I have drivers dating to 306.97. I also noticed that my current driver (344.11) wasn't in there.

So my questions are: would deleting these files hurt or improve my computer? Is there a way to have experience automatically get rid of these? I am sorry if these are stupid questions, but I am new to computers and I do not want to hurt my computer in some way. Thanks in advance for your help.


Computer Specs:
CPU: Intel Core I5 3570k 3.4 ghtz
GPU: MSI 660 ti PE Edition
RAM: 8 gigs DDR3
OS: WIndows 7
PSU: Rosewill 750 w
 
removing the old drivers wont help or hurt your performance but you might asell as they are just taking up (very little) space. When you download a new driver theough geforce experience there should be an option in advanced settings for removing the old drivers when you install the new one
 

boju

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Im not too sure about how Nvidia experience handles the installation whether you have an option for custom/advanced install. Standalone drivers downloaded from nvidia will have this option and an option to clean install wiping out older existing drivers.

Experience might have this option, try have a look if not download newest driver again separately from their website.
 

boju

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Could be numerous things like processes hogging memory, too much running in the background slowing things down or could be settings in Nvidia control panel. Unlikely be Nvidia settings but could try prefer maximum performance and checkout some of the other settings.

Check task manager coming from a bootup, see if there's any processes taking large amounts of memory. If there is and doesn't look right, google that process.exe.

Another thing be HDD when was the last time you did a defrag? In saying that, its possible its not your video card and problem may be something else. Could even be the HDD going bad/slow access time which can cause stuttering as well.