Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can’t fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.

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    I used to be a Windows user before switching to Linux, and upgrading a GPU is incredibly simple on Windows. You don’t need Display Driver Uninstaller, but it is ideal to use it for the best performance and remediating future incompatibilities.

    1. Download DDU. Download Nvidia driver (and not GeForce Experience)
    2. Reboot into Safe Mode.
    3. Open DDU.
    4. Pick the option that removes display drivers while shutting down the computer. This option is marked as “recommended” in the GUI.
    5. Wait for job to finish and computer will shut down.
    6. Open case.
    7. Replace with new GPU.
    8. Close case.
    9. Turn on computer.
    10. Open the new driver and wait for it to install.
    11. Done.

    Process is almost identical for AMD or Arc GPUs.

    I appreciate this is a meme, but if your computer behaves like that, it means it’s borked. I’d fix those other issues, too, and probably reinstall Windows. Most likely that user messed with things they shouldn’t have by following random guides and YouTube videos online. In my decades of using Windows, I never had those problems.

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      If you’re going from Nvidia to Nvidia for AMD to AMD and you’re on the latest drivers already you probably don’t even have to uninstall them. When I last upgraded my GPU I just took the old one out and put the new one in and it just worked.

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        That’s been my experience as well, if it’s the same vendor, just swap and go unless the old one is so old that it uses different driver software

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        Yeah, I think you’re correct here. I haven’t tried this myself. First GPU was a GTX 1060. Swapped to an RTX 3080. I used DDU just to play it safe.

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          I just went 3080->5070ti and it felt like I could have done a hot swap. Zero issues, install and boot