Once you press Clean, a backup of the driver entries will be made so at least you can try to restore the data if you make a mistake. A rather oddball feature for a driver cleaning program is the Desktop Icon restorer. It will essentially backup the desktop icons and locations and restore them back at a later date. As we said earlier, use Driver Sweeper more as a last resort, not your first option. Driver sweeper has a total of 16 different entries in its list including AMD/Nvidia display, Asus/Creative/Realtek sound, Intel/Nvidia chipset, and HP printers. Put a check next to any entries you want to scan and press Analyse.
- Therefore, keeping them updated is recommended.
- If the support website does not have helpful information, double-click the installer and continue with the on-screen directions to complete the update.
- Sometimes your system will have trouble finding the most up-to-date driver with the Windows built-in driver updater.
In the Search field type “Intel Driver & Support Assistant” and you will see all logs of “Intel Driver & Support Assistant” in the database compatible with your Windows Version. The program is not listed in the Windows Settings or Control Panel. At first, i also didn’t think the drivers were the problem. Access Download Center, search this for the Intel Graphics model identified in step 3 using the Search box located in the top-right corner.
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The program is not compatible with other installed applications. Disconnect from the internet to make sure the driver will not be automatically updated by Windows. Identify the Intel Graphics device among the options listed. Just did a search and it appears to support ‘cmpxchg8b’ so it shouldn’t be impacted. Frankly, I was surprised to hear that support for those chips was still there.
I do not rolling back know what you mean when you say you installed a newer version of the kernel. I think we need more information about what you have done because normally, the Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics driver installs automatically from the kernel. I would like to know if I can simply uninstall the driver or swap it with another one. The problem occurred when the real installation booted, it defaults to the proper driver so the issue represents. Indeed once I booted the USB installer in compatibility mode the laptop worked just fine and I completed the installation.
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While uninstalling the GPU driver is the way to go about it, chances are it might not solve your issues. After Safe Mode starts, run Display Driver Uninstaller and follow the instructions above to delete your display driver. If you’re worried that the currently installed driver is causing any issues on your system, you can completely remove it from your PC by using this tool. It’s also possible to use this software if you want to roll back NVIDIA drivers to the older version if the current one is giving you issues. Having the latest drivers installed on your Windows 10 PC is crucial if you want to ensure maximum performance and stability.
# Now with all this done, head to Getting Started With ACPI (opens new window)
If you have an APU, updating it is a bit more complex. You need to update both its integrated GPU graphics drivers manually and then update the CPU driver component as well. You can update chipset drivers via the Command Prompt. With this method, you will first have to download the package from the OEM website or copy it from USB or storage media, and copy it to the computer; then run the utility to update the driver. The Intel Media Driver for VAAPI is a new VA-API user mode driver supporting hardware accelerated decoding, encoding, and video post processing for GEN based graphics hardware. And download the appropriate drivers for your graphics card.