

If you already have the driver installed and want to update to a newer version got to "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"ħ. Choose to select the location of the new driver manually and browse to the folder where you extracted the driverĥ. Right click on the hardware device you wish to update and choose Update Driver SoftwareĤ.

Go to Device Manager (right click on My Computer, choose Manage and then find Device Manager in the left panel), or right click on Start Menu for Windows 10 and select Device Managerģ. In order to manually update your driver, follow the steps below (the next steps):ġ. Take into consideration that is not recommended to install the driver on Operating Systems other than stated ones. If the driver is already installed on your system, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix various issues, add new functions, or just upgrade to the available version. We'll try it out and see if people like the idea and want us to continue.The package provides the installation files for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti Graphics Driver version 21. These HotFix drivers represent a lot of additional work by our engineering teams, I hope they provide value for you. But we know that many of you are willing to try these out. The safest option is to wait for the next WHQL certified driver. The sole reason they exist is to get fixes out to you more quickly.

They are run through a much abbreviated QA process. To be sure, these Hotfix drivers are beta, optional and provided as-is. These fixes (and many more) will be incorporated into the next official driver release, at which time the Hotfix driver will be taken down. The fixes that make it in are based in part on your feedback in the Driver Feedback threads and partly on how realistic it is for us to quickly address them.

These drivers are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes. The GeForce Hotfix driver is our way to trying to get some of these fixes out to you more quickly. Sometimes a change that is important to many users might end up sitting and waiting until we are able to release the driver. This process has served us pretty well over the years but it has one significant weakness. Since we have so many changes being checked in, we usually try to align driver releases with significant game or product releases. These changes are checked into the main driver branches, which are eventually run through a massive QA process and released. GeForce hotfix display driver version 531.26 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 531.18.Ī GeForce driver is an incredibly complex piece of software, We have an army of software engineers constantly adding features and fixing bugs.
