A driver installation may fail for a number of reasons. Users may be running a program in the background that interferes with the installation. If Windows is performing a background Windows Update, a driver installation may also fail. This articles provides step by steps instructions for manually clean installing the driver using the latest NVIDIA Game Ready Driver installer.
1. Click here to download the latest NVIDIA Game Ready Driver for your graphics card from the NVIDIA Game Ready Drivers downloads page. Before starting the installation process, close any programs which you have open. This includes GPU monitoring utilities (eg. EVGA Precision X, MSI Afterburner, etc) that may be actively using the graphics card (eg. for performance tuning, overclocking, fan control). If you have an aggressive anti-virus/anti-malware program monitoring your PC, you may want to disable live monitoring as well. If these types of applications remain open during driver installation, it may prevent parts of the driver from registering correctly which could affect performance or stability.
2. Right-click over the NVIDIA display driver installer file and select Run as administrator as shown in the screenshot below.
3. If you are prompted by Windows User Account Control, click on Yes.
4. You will be asked to specificy where the temporary driver files will be stored. We recommend using the default path given by clicking on the OK button.
5. Next, review the license agreenment and then proceed.
6. Choose Custom (Advanced). Then click NEXT
7. Select Perform clean install and then click on NEXT.
10. Once the installation has finished, reboot your PC to complete the installation.