Uninstalling nVidia Drivers?

[eVaoVe]

I know the general procedure is to uninstall drivers, reboot into safemode, run driver cleaner, and then install the new ones. But its a little complicated. When I try to uninstall nVidia drivers, theres multiple drivers. Theres Audi, Display, Ethernet, Gart, IDE, and PCI system management drivers, all from nVidia. Do I have to uninstall all of them or just the display driver would be fine? Also I've never used driver cleaner before. I just downloaded the professional one. Is it a basic thing to do, as in 1 click and it'll do its thing or do I have to set it up and stuff? Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated!

 

[eVaoVe]

Oh and I forgot to mention I'm trying to update my video card drivers. I have a Geforce 6800GT. Hope that helps!

 

[BlueWeasel]

Basically, just uninstall the video drivers only from Control Panel, reboot into safe mode, and use DC Pro to remove just the Nvidia listing...don't remove the Nforce drivers.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

nvidia drivers are pretty good on how they overwrite everything and no conflict that I just install the new drivers over the old one.

ati catalyst on the other hand is a different story: it's wise to go through the entire uninstall, dc in safe and install exercise.

 

[XBoxLPU]

I haven't had any issues with just uninstalling the drivers via Control Panel, restart, install new driver

This goes for the Catalyst 3.x-4.x and Nvidia 66.xx drivers

 

[2Xtreme21]

I find that there's nearly always a performance gain if you take the time to do driver cleaner after uninstalling old drivers. Granted, that's my system.