Will GeForce experience automatically install drivers if you use an Older gen card.

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Ok so my friend bought a "gaming pc" a few months a go. It has an ok cpu (4 core fx) and 8 gigs of ram but he has a gt 720. One of my friends had a pc that he didn't use anymore so I got him to Uninstall the gtx 650 in it so we could install into my friends pc with the 720. The friend that is installing the gpu isn't great with pcs, he can do basic things like unistall gpus (if I help him on skype) but he may get confused on installing drivers. So I need to be shure that all he has to do is update drivers in GeForce experience, will that work even if it's an older gen card?(which is more powerful by a lonsgot)... if he puts the new card in and updates drivers on GeForce experience will everything run fine and normally?
 
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How did you conclude that i was "against it" since I mentioned...
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1. Download Latest driver GeForce Experience
2. Uninstall all things nVidia, reboot
3. (Optional) Use ccleaner to remove all things nVidia from registry one of the various utilities (one linked above) that automate the process.
4. Install new driver.

If you skip step 3, you will get away with it 90+% of the time. If you decide to skip, you can always redo and include step 3

 
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DDU works really well for most people and is quick and easy, so not sure why you are against it.

I use Ccleaner myself though I wouldn't use it for video driver removal when DDU works well and is faster and easier for the average person (just a couple clicks and reboot).
 
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How did you conclude that i was "against it" since I mentioned it (and others like it) in step 3 specifically referencing your post. The tools may be quick and easy .... but so is ordering a pre-built PC easier and faster than building your own.

I prefer to build my own PCs and I prefer to edit my own registry so that a) I know exactly what was edited and b) I don't know that any utility is up to date with the latest drivers.





There are sure-fire ways of doing things and then there are ways that work 90+% of the time. If he goes into control panel, uninstalls the drivers, and reboots, then downloads GeForce Experience, there is a very high probability that he will not have a problem.

I'll give you an analogy ... after completing a build I like to run memtest86+ a procedure which is generally accomplished "overnight".

Sure-fire procedure - Run w/ 1 stick for 12 hours ... run w/ 2nd stick for 12 hours, this way you know which stick failed.

Quick procedure - Run with both sticks in place

Logic .... The quick procedure will work 95+% of the time, so it follows that:

Quick Method... 19 builds will take 12 hours, 1 will take 36 (after two fail, I test both individually) = 264 hours of testing

Sure Fire-Method .. 20 builds take 480 hours

The other thing is ... so what if you know what stick it is ... you don't RMA one stick, you want a replacement set provided in pairs, so both go back anyway. Sometimes you have to go further ... as when both stocks fail and you have a socket problem, but that is extremely rare.

So... one choice you might have is to guide your friend thru the quick procedure ... and if he has an issue, then make the trip and redo it.
 
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