In a perfect world, every driver update would be rock-solid, improve hardware performance and/or the available feature set, and would absolutely positively work on every supported GPU, in every configuration, every single time. Given that DDU was previously run, Windows 10 shouldn’t think there’s a GTX 980 installed in the first place. It’s not clear why the system would insist on trying to install a driver for the GTX 980 that GPU hasn’t been in the system for several days. I can’t see which driver was installed for any GPU, because W10 doesn’t give any additional information on a driver version number or offer a KB article that you can consult for further information. Here’s where the shortcomings of Windows 10’s update policies really start to bite. If you work in hardware review, product testing, or any form of IT, being able to make certain that files have been completely stripped out before you install new drivers is a fundamental part of troubleshooting.
These types of utilities really dig through the OS and are meant to remove all of the cruft that a standard uninstall might miss. Windows has slowly gotten better about switching between driver families, but there’s a reason that third-party utilities like Display Driver Uninstaller are still important. This is doubly true if you’re planning to switch drivers between vendors, whether that’s from integrated Intel to AMD or Nvidia, or between AMD and Nvidia. If you’ve ever swapped out a video card for an entirely different GPU (say, moving from the AMD HD 5000 family to the 7000 family, or the GTX 285 to the GTX 970), then you’re aware that simply uninstalling drivers from the Control Panel isn’t always enough to make sure that old drivers are really, truly gone. Now there’s firsthand evidence that Microsoft hasn’t built the kind of infrastructure into Windows 10 that would allow it to properly communicate what the OS has or hasn’t done.įirst, a bit of history. Driver updates pushed through Windows Update, after all, have a checkered history, particularly where graphics hardware is concerned. While I agree with Microsoft that mandatory security updates are a good idea, I’m dubious on forcing users to install features they may not want, and downright unhappy with mandatory driver updates. I’ve been concerned about Microsoft’s mandatory update policy ever since the company announced it earlier this year.
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