Special Instructions for installing Driver 260.99?

Hi, it's been some time since I upgraded my drivers. The last time was when I upgraded to the 258.96 drivers. Installing the 258.96 drivers required some special steps, and I was wondering if there are any special steps that are needed for the istallation of the 260.99 drivers to get it working? I remembered that for the 258.96 drivers I had to replace the .inf file...

Will I lose the Nvidia taskbar feature that shows which programs are running with the nVidia chip if I upgrade to these new drivers?

Thanks.

 

You'll still have the taskbar icon

And just download the latest Verde drivers and it will work fine

 

Since the 258.96 Release, NV Verde drivers officially began supporting the M11x, so you don't need to do anything extra anymore.

 

Thanks. I was passed this link and I assume this is the correct place to download the driver.

NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.99 WHQL

Also, please confirm these steps:

Step 1: Go to Control Panel and remove 'Nvidia Display Control Panel', 'Nvida Drivers' and 'Nvida PhysX'.

Step 2. Reboot in safe mode by pressing F8 on start up and run Driver sweeper?
Guru3D - Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com

Step 3. Run the Nvidia 260.99 driver package

Thanks for confirming these steps.

 

The newer versions of the verde driver include a "clean install" option now. If I recall correctly you need to do a custom install rather than a typical install in order to access this mode of installation. It's (supposedly) removing all traces of previous drivers much like driver sweeper does. I haven't heard anything negative about it and it worked for me when I upgraded from 258.96.

 

Nice! They really made it an easier hassle free process now. So, all I have to do is run the installation file and it will do everything in one step!

Thanks again and again Slickie!

 

Sigh am I stupid or blind ?? my M11xR2 come with 260.99 drivers. but I replace it with 258.96 cause read the first post on M11x thread (thought it was the latest update though... ).

suppose I need to stop drinking at the night....

 

Ok, so I've installed the 260.99 drivers. How do I go about to show it in the task bar so that it shows which programs are actively using it?
I cannot seem to find the program to bring up it's control panel....

 

Right-click on the desktop and choose NVIDIA control panel.
Desktop > Display GPU Activity in Notification Area.

I actually kinda preferred Nautis' utilities, but it's the same thing.

 

Ok..so I think I owe you a New Year's cuppa coffee for being so insightfully helpful today. That did it. Got it to display now on the taskbar!

 

OUCH...!! I'll be damned.....

it's not the first time i change the driver. try to follow our fellas here for update from 258.96 to 260.99. back then i use 3 step that good fellas mentioned above and works fine. but somehow this time it failed install the Physiq driver during installation. so, only the driver was installed. I already rolling back into 3 step above for about 3 times and still same result. finaly, try to go back to 258.96 using the mod nvdm file.... and you now what ?? It FAILED also..... sigh... maybe something wrong during uninstallation. I guess I need to restart all over again from zero though, format everything......