Windows 10: How to manually install a Driver using a .INF File in Windows 11/10

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Device drivers play a very important role in letting several hardware components on your computer function properly. Things like a video card or your motherboard require you to have updated drivers installed if you want them working well. Installing appropriate drivers can be a tough nut to crack for those who are inexperienced at it, […]

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Install standard vga ?

Yes it used to be there, but not anymore, thats why Iam figuring this out :/

I went digging and moved some oem#.inf files away from the windows\inf folder, as the MS KB article suggested, and after that the the list of devices available in update driver -window changed, but still, no standard vga ! *Frown

I was lucky as the ATI had replaced the very first oem#.inf file, but the second one can be anywhere as I havent reinstalled in ages and have atleast 70 oem#.inf files in my windows\inf folder. Seems I have some manual labour to do sadly unless anybody does not have a more neater way to do this.

 

PhysX Driver that Works on all Capable GPUs to be out by August

The drivers should work... I'd suggest throwing it to Pagalms or the GTX 260/280 teaser driver thread... I know there is a list somewhere for it. All you need is the modded .inf file. But, Driver 177.66 don't need the modded .inf... Just go to Guru3d and grab them and install.

 

Relevance of driver installation package files?

As the years went by and you no longer had to manually update video card drivers via adding an .inf file in Windows, driver packages have a self extraction > installation method.

With Nvidia, you extract the files somewhere and then run the setup. I've always gone back after installation, and removed those extracted files.

It hasn't ever seemed to be a problem, yet it got me curious. Are those supposed to stay on your harddisk or are they strictly for the installation only?