NVIDIA drivers and Windows 10 preview

Hello and thank you for looking,

I upgraded to windows 10 preview yesterday to have a look around and I am having issues installing the graphics drivers. I navigated the NVidia site and located the WINDOWS 10 64 bit international driver for my 660m ( I know...don't laugh). But through the installation process the application stops and tells me the driver installation has failed. I even went to device manager and tried to manually install it with no luck. Anyone else having this issue?? Any ideas? Thanks a lot

p.s I do have the Windows 10 64 bit preview installed so the driver should be the correct one.

 

Sorry to hear you installed Windows 10... you have my heartfelt condolences.

Disable Driver Signature Enforcement prior to Windows logon and see if that fixes your problem. From what you described, that is what the problem is... DSE is blocking the installation.

 

hahah I said I was BORED Thank thank you Senor Fox. I will go give it a shot now.

 

Okay...tried that route...While it did allow me to advance a bit further in the installation process I ended up with same results. I disabled all of the other installations of the software and just tried to get the graphics card driver installed.

 

Well don't I feel like a dummy...bad enough Senor Fox feels sorry for me and my windows install but 2 mins of chat with nvidia solved the issue...Install in safe mode they said...it will be easy they said...and it was.

 

Hmm, that's really odd. I did not think the driver setup installer would run in Safe Mode. Maybe there is some sort of difference in Windows 10's version of Safe Mode. But, I'm happy you got that squared away so easily.

 

Dude I wouldn't even trust a FINAL OS made by Microsoft, not even a BETA and you install an Alpha OS that is still being developed and changed rapidly? This OS is not for usage it's just for taking a peak of what the next disaster is going to look like. Please uninstall it right away

 

Stop being so negative

 

Sometimes that is all you have left to work with. I think Windows 10 is one of those times. They've given us no reason to believe otherwise thus far.
Micro$haft is the master architect of epic failures, LOL. They began perfecting their craft with Windows 8.

 

Yes from what I've see so far it is just a windows 8.1 with a modified start menu that still makes me puke when I look at it. Some will never learn that people don't want something new shoved down their throat, they have seen how bad 8 failed yet they still want to throw that metro cap down our throat even in the new start menu. If installed on a desktop or laptop I don't want to even see anything called ****ro tiles or any touch ui mobile garbage

 

Yup, a Windows 8.1.2 release with reduced functionality and new restrictions. Like it or not, it's coming. It sucks, but its coming. We can't fix stupid. Stupid in large numbers is dangerous and to all of the idiots that speak English even though they don't know what half of the words that they use actually mean, we are all "racists" and "bigots" for saying it sucks.

Some people actually like it. I hope they have some of this in their medicine cabinet.

 

Heck from what I've seen so far of 10 and the promises Micro$HAFT made about listening to their customers, I'd still take 8.1 over 10 at this point

 

Me too... I'm paying attention, but see no reason to even consider the OS downgrade at this point. Maybe when DX12 actually becomes relevant (if it does) the OS may offer at least one form of value.

 

I was having fun with win10 dispite all its problems. That was until it's new build and I could not get any of the win10 nvidia drivers to install, so I dumped it and went back to 8.1. Can't wait for its release

 

I have heavily GUI modified Windows 8.1 and I think it's now better than 7 but it's much much worse if you leave stock GUI, makes me wanna puke

 

so i see that on the last update of win 10 build 10122 they fixed the driver problem

• We fixed the issue some people were seeing where their graphics driver fails to install from Windows Update with error code 80070103. This was happening because WU was trying to re-issue the driver.

 

Yeah, you're 100% correct... puke-o-rama! I've got mine looking so nice I had to tweak Windows 7 to make it look like my tweaked Windows 8 that was tweaked to look like Windows 7. The only reason I still use Windows 7 as my primary OS is because it delivers slightly better overall performance in most things, especially where physics performance is concerned. When I boot into Windows 8+ sometimes I have to do Win+C or right click the lower left corner to see which OS I am running because they look so much alike now. I despise Windows Apps and the Windows cr App store garbage. I never use them except on my Nokia phone.

 

There are some improvements in Win 8.1 like power menu RMB instead of start menu is very useful for me. I like to access applications and programs without waiting, finding and grouping stuff. The new start screen is also nice especially with smaller tiles that I can group if I want. Search also works very fast on SSD disk. System starts and work very fast too. Improvements under the hood are good but GUI is total misunderstanding. Sadly Win10 is even worse at GUI. I hope this crap minimalistic trend will end soon because we have no alternatives. Linux is still not a "clickable" solution as the software on it is very bad quality and written using obsolete technologies that work 5% faster than on Windows but is very bugged and harder to write properly. There is a hope however as Microsoft is working on .NET for Linux. It will allow to write programs in C# without using Mono.

Regards