Nvidia 190.15 drivers no restarting!

[pcslookout]

I just tried the Nvidia 190.15 drivers and was amazed that I didn't have to restart my pc after installing them! This is cool because I always hate restarting after installing a driver or program. Just annoying. Of course I restarted my pc anyway sense it was a little hard to believe at first.

 

[pcslookout]

My question is this a new nvidia driver feature or can this be done with all drivers if they are made a certain way?

 

[Fox5]

This was supposed to be a feature of Vista.
Though I've never needed to reboot to make any driver installs work, just close out the control center app and restart it.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Will try these when they're 'officially' released, hopefully they allow me to use DVI... The newest driver I can use that works without forcing me to use a DVI->VGA adapter is 182.50 -.-

Maybe without the restart, my monitor will stay in sync, and I can set the refresh rate, etc. before restarting 😀

 

[Dkcode]

Are the 190's supposed to be the holy grail of drivers? cos the 185/186's are a little flaky.

 

[vj8usa]

Vista can load drivers on the fly without a reboot. That's why if your display driver crashes in Vista, you just get a black screen for a second and it gets reset automatically (as opposed to a BSOD, etc).

I've never had to reboot when installing my Catalyst drivers under Vista, though the resolution changes for a bit during the install which annoys the hell out of me (resizes all my windows). Did nvidia drivers require a reboot before the 190s? I've never used an nvidia card under Vista.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: vj8usa
Vista can load drivers on the fly without a reboot. That's why if your display driver crashes in Vista, you just get a black screen for a second and it gets reset automatically (as opposed to a BSOD, etc).

I've never had to reboot when installing my Catalyst drivers under Vista, though the resolution changes for a bit during the install which annoys the hell out of me (resizes all my windows). Did nvidia drivers require a reboot before the 190s? I've never used an nvidia card under Vista.

Yes. Always.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: vj8usa
Vista can load drivers on the fly without a reboot. That's why if your display driver crashes in Vista, you just get a black screen for a second and it gets reset automatically (as opposed to a BSOD, etc).

I've never had to reboot when installing my Catalyst drivers under Vista, though the resolution changes for a bit during the install which annoys the hell out of me (resizes all my windows). Did nvidia drivers require a reboot before the 190s? I've never used an nvidia card under Vista.

Yes. Always.

what are you talking about ?
😕

You can install Nvidia and ATi graphics drivers without rebooting for quite some time now
- just don't uninstall the old ones first 😛

 

[geokilla]

I prefer to restart. It's safer to spend 5 minutes restarting and installing instead of spending 5 hours reinstalling Windows and trying to restore whatever you lost.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: geokilla
I prefer to restart. It's safer to spend 5 minutes restarting and installing instead of spending 5 hours reinstalling Windows and trying to restore whatever you lost.

it's FAR safer to drive image your PC and back up your data regularly
- anything else is an illusion of "safe" 😛

IF anything goes radically wrong - you are back up in a couple of hours

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: geokilla
I prefer to restart. It's safer to spend 5 minutes restarting and installing instead of spending 5 hours reinstalling Windows and trying to restore whatever you lost.

Wait, what? How would not restarting end up forcing you to reinstall Windows and lose data? Worst case, something weird happens and you're stuck with using Vista's built in drivers at 800x600 until you fix the drivers, and even that wouldn't have anything to do with rebooting. I can't imagine how installing video drivers would nuke the entire Windows installation.

There's a fine line between being safe and being paranoid.

 

[Keysplayr]

Better to be safe than sorry. Doesn't hurt to reboot. Think of the countless hours you spend doing nothing on the pc. Just surfing. Not going to kill you to reboot if you want to. You do you, and let others do what they want to do. To each his own. Lemme see, any other sayngs I can throw in here? LOL

 

[VaultDweller]

NVIDIA drivers never require a reboot in Vista or Windows 7 - if you get the WHQL drivers through Windows Update.

Vista doesn't require a reboot to install video drivers, so the reboot is there only because the NVIDIA installer software says to do so - this is no different than the many application installers that want a reboot just for the hell of it (I still encounter the odd game install that wants me to reboot for no apparent reason). No NVIDIA installer, no reboot. It's good to hear that the installer doesn't have a reboot requirement now.

 

[BFG10K]

I haven't been asked to reboot with XP drivers for months either, so that proves it's not isolated to Vista/Windows 7.

But I still reboot just to be safe.

It's one thing not to reboot when an application is installed, but another thing entirely when a kernel mode component is installed, such as a device driver.