NVIDIA Installer cannot continue / Installer failed FIX (READ DESCRIPTION)

NVIDIA Installer cannot continue / Installer failed FIX (READ DESCRIPTION)

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Channel Avatar Trevo, Ph.D.2022-02-03 21:29:10 Thumbnail
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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
After a while Windows may revert your drivers back to old versions since these are not digitally signed. To prevent this, there are two options:

If you have a Pro version of windows, follow this tutorial to prevent automatic driver updates:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-automatic-driver-updates-windows-10
If you have a Home version of Windows, follow this:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-stop-automatic-driver-updates-windows
ALSO make sure in GeForce Experience (if you installed it) that automatic driver updates are not enabled.

IF YOU CANNOT FIND YOUR ID IN THE .INI FILE:
I made a followup video that should help those that cannot locate their hardware ID in the driver’s .ini file https://youtu.be/RN09E8P208c

0:29 – 2:00 Prepwork/What to download/Where to be cautious
2:00 – 2:33 Running DDU
2:33 – 4:03 Extracting Nvidia driver for modification
4:03 – 9:00 Modifying .inf file to recognize GPU
First issue solved!
9:48 – 11:08 Resolving /”Installer failed error/”
11:08 – 11:56 Confirming fix
All done!

DDU Download link: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
Drivers: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

Hopefully this works for you guys. I don’t know if this works universally but hopefully it impacts as many people as possible. It’s a relevant fix if:

If your driver installer says:
NVIDIA Installer Cannot continue
This NVIDIA graphics driver is not compatible with this version of Windows.
This graphics driver could not find any compatible graphics hardware.

OR:

NVIDIA Installer failed
Graphics Driver failed

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