As you know, graphics accelerators or video cards in computers and laptops play one of the most important roles among all installed equipment. But it is also very often necessary for them to perform timely driver updates, since if the control software becomes obsolete, they may start to work incorrectly. Next, it is proposed to figure out how to update the driver for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 graphics card or any other model of this line (in this case, it does not matter). An ordinary user can be offered a few simple methods.
How to update NVIDIA GeForce driver: simplest method
As for the basic techniques, the simplest solution is to use the standard tools of the Windows operating systems, which most novice users often do not know about the specialized tools offered by the manufacturer of video cards.
Yes, indeed, sometimes it’s enough to call the “Device Manager”, find the installed video card in the list, and then select the driver update item via PCM. However, relying solely on the system is impossible only for the simple reason that even when installing updated drivers via the Internet, it still refers exclusively to Microsoft databases, which may not contain the latest management software.
Download driver from the official website of the manufacturer
It is much more convenient to update the NVIDIA GeForce driver when you visit the official Internet resource of the manufacturer itself, on which you can find the corresponding driver by the name of the graphic adapter model.
But only in advance you need to make sure that its capacity matches the architecture of the installed operating system. As a rule, all installers are delivered in the form of executable EXE files, and to install the update it is enough to simply run them as administrator.
NVIDIA GeForce Experience does not update drivers: what to do?
Often, specialized utilities are offered for use to search for and install updates of control software, allowing you to perform all the necessary operations without the explicit participation of the user. GeForce Experience is one of the utilities of this class. Updating the NVIDIA GeForce driver in this application is much easier. However, when various kinds of errors or failures appear, you need to select the so-called “clean” driver installation item, and sometimes get rid of previously installed software manually or using special programs like Display Driver Uninstaller.
But very often, users complain that for some reason the NVIDIA GeForce driver cannot be updated in the utility from the video chip manufacturer itself. The most obvious problem is the obsolescence of the updater itself.
The way out of this situation is to download at least one of the versions of the most suitable driver from the official resource, after which the installation point for the GeForce Experience components will need to be noted in the installation program (in this case, you can also use a clean installation so as not to remove the previously installed applet manually). After that, the application usually works without problems.
Additional troubleshooting solutions
As alternative solutions to update drivers, you can recommend the use of general purpose programs. For example, applications like DriverPack Solution, Driver Booster and the like are very popular among users of all skill levels. Their advantage consists not only in the complete automation of all the processes of searching for the latest driver on the manufacturer’s official resource, but also because they do not update for just one device (in our case, this is a video card), they search and install updates absolutely for all components of a computer system, including hardware, and some virtual devices.
If none of the proposed solutions gives a positive result (which is unlikely), in the “Device Manager” determine the identifiers of the VEN and DEV video cards yourself, specify the search on the Internet by the longest line containing them, download the desired driver and integrate it into the system by yourself.
A small utility called TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker also looks good in this regard, for the use of which user participation is also minimized.