Hello. I currently use an amd gpu. I’ve been offered an rtx 3060 at a really low price and I have the opportunity to test it for a few days, also.

I will use amd’s cleanup utility for my card before installing the nvidia driver. If I don’t keep the card, I will have to remove it (not installing GeForce experience, just the driver).

Now I don’t wat to use ddu, so what will be the best way? Obviously I can uninstall it manually, but what if I make a restore point before using amd’s utility? Will reverting to it undo all the changes safely?

Thanks for reading.

Edit: using windows 11

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hi there, while a lot of persons recommend and highly endorse the software Direct Driver Uninstaller, you do raise a great question.

    Restore Points in Windows allow you to create a quasi “point in time” snapshot of the computer’s current state. It’s not for files. Rather, it’s for any time you install a new program, driver, Windows update, etc.

    Using System Restore to create a Restore Point before you use AMD’s utility will achieve what you need.

    • Create Restore Point.
    • Power off computer and replace the GPU.
    • Use computer and test new card.
    • Once done, power off computer and replace the GPU with the one you’re keeping.
    • Use System Restore to recover to the prior Restore Point.

    I’d argue that DDU is potentially faster than using System Restore. But I haven’t used System Restore since the Windows 7 days and it was really slow back then (also was using HDDs, too). System Restore is probably better now.

    Microsoft Support articles: