well I'm always telling my viewers go to the manufacturer's website and download
the latest drivers but what I have never actually done is showing you how if
there's anybody who doesn't know so today I'm going to be giving you oh
helps if you spell NVIDIA right today I'm going to be doing a video guide on
how to install NVIDIA's Graphics drivers
so I'm going to be installing the driver for a GTX 480 card so the first thing
I've done is I've gone to NVIDIA.com and then I'm going to hover over if I
can get my mouse to go there there we go I'm G to hover over download drivers and
then I'm going to go to download drivers so far this is pretty
straightforward okay so here we go now I'm going to manually Find the drivers
for my NVIDIA products so I know that I'm using a GeForce uh there's all the
other options here as well uh so I'm using a GeForce I'm using a 400 series
of 480 but they've got options for all the other gForce series as well I
actually have cards in my uh in my storage room that go back as far as this
nothing here though nothing here anyway so this is a GT GeForce 400 series the
particular card I'm installing drivers for is the 480 and then I am using Windows 7 64bit
if you want to check which copy of uh Windows you have whether you're running
Vista or Windows 7 you just click on the start menu right click on computer go to
properties and then you you can see right somewhere right there system type
64-bit operating system so if you need to double check then just make sure
there that way you download the correct driver for your system all right so
we've got all the options selected I speak English and I don't think they
have an English Canada H queen's English
excellent I'm going to download the UK drivers just for fun okay so you click
yes it tells you the drivers okay these are Wile certified so it means they
should be cable they're good for Windows 7 64bit shows me here release highlights
so you can see how much stuff gets fixed in updated drivers I don't I don't tell
you this for my own Amusement I mean look at this 24% better performance in
this game 25% better in this game 10%
better in some technology demo upgrades
physics support adds support for New Quality mode does all this stuff so
there's a reason that I tell you never use the drivers that come on the disc
click agree and download always use the ones from the manufacturer's website so
I'm going to save these uhuh I'm going to save these to
the desktop and NVIDIA has a very
fast okay some UK ad NVIDIA has very
fast download servers so at my home I am
getting almost 2 megabytes per second down from NVIDIA's server that means
even though their drivers are a huge 155 Megs it's still only going to take about
a minute and a half to 2 minutes so that's how long I have to sit here and
ramble I guess this would be a problem if you have dialup then you'd be in for
a real treat I mean man that would take
forever oh it looks like it was just Shaw's speed boost thing I'm not
actually getting 2 megabytes per second but if I had a better internet connection then I
would guess I could go downstairs and get a drink from the
fridge that wouldn't be all that professional though would
it still contemplating okay maybe I'll just turn off the camera for now all
right the download is complete so I click run
yes okay and whoops ouch please wait file
the files are saved to your computer when complete the driver installation
will start so you can read that on your own now cuz I zoomed in I have my juice
now see there's my juice my Vancouver
conu mug okay so click next for NVIDIA setup
let's go ahead and zoom in a little bit so you read through this in great detail
and then click yes then it installs the driver software
installing drivers really isn't all that difficult but uh where a lot of people
run into trouble is if they're not uh not super computer savvy and they're not
sure you know who the manufacturer is for a particular piece of Hardware like
say for example they've got a video card and they know it's made by MSI but they
don't know if it's made by NVIDIA or ATI
um the Ford Partners tend to have the latest drivers but they don't always
have the very latest and they usually don't have betas and stuff like that
available on their site so it's always better to go directly to ati's site for
Radon drivers and NVIDIA's site for GeForce drivers so why bother installing
a driver at all well uh performance differences and also it gives you a lot
more flexibility in configuring your computer I'm just going to sort of minimize this it's just going to keep
doing what it's doing and so you see I'm actually missing the NVIDIA control
panel here I have no access to the NVIDIA control panel at all until I've
installed the driver so the NVIDIA control panel gives us all kinds of
different options for stuff that we can do with our displays things
like just going to go under the desk
here things like SLI if you have two video cards like that uh things like
configuring fizx uh things like setting up three displays at a time so these are
all very very important things yes I want to restart my
computer this is an SSD based system so it should
restart pretty quick
here I'm going to go ahead and get a drink of my
juice the point of this video is just how easy it is to install your own
Graphics
drivers
I actually have a lot of people comment on this how my Windows is never genuine
and it's always up after the activation period the reason is that I'm changing
Hardware all the time so when you change Hardware all the time it's actually very
very obnoxious to reactivate it every single time you change a video card or
change a CPU or change a motherboard so I don't bother anymore it is genuine
software but yeah I cannot be bothered to run the stupid call Microsoft every
single time I change a single piece of hardware on the machine it doesn't make
sense so yeah I'm aware of the little message this copy of Windows is not
genuine I just don't care because it is genuine I just haven't gotten around to
activating it on my real machine I believe it's active
although it might not be on that one either okay so here we go here is all
the options we have in the NVIDIA control panel now that we have our driver installed that was fairly simple
so we can set up things like stereoscopic 3D because we do have 3D
Vision glasses as well as a an IR transmitter or emitter rather um we can
set up 3D settings we can adjust image
settings and we can change SL physics configurations we can change all this
different stuff we can set up multiple displays that's a pretty cool feature
see we can do all kinds of stuff so thank you for checking out my how to
install your NVIDIA GeForce drivers and
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