My laptop has a GTX960M and works with Windows 8.1 and Game Ready driver currently. I wonder what will happen if I install CUDA driver now and let them exist at the same time?
Will two drivers for one video card work properly at the same time? Like when I play GTA the Game Ready driver will work, and when I doing deep learning jobs the CUDA driver will work.
Or I have to switch between them and reboot the OS? Or there will always be conflicts and I have to keep only one of them?
Thank you for any advice.
You can’t have two GPU drivers installed at the same time.
Not possible.
I did that bymistake,
On a Lenovo L340 with GTX 1050, I already had the Game Ready Driver installed and I used to play multiples games, it used to function very well, I after that also installed the CUDA and CuDnn drivers (for AI, ML with Pytorch) and it still worked, both the games and the Pytorch model training.
But one random day, I had a game ready driver update in Geforce Experience, I updated my game ready driver and restarted my pc and then a black screen came, absolutely nothing, I couldnt figure the problem out and had to reset the pc.
After resetting, I did the same thing installed both CUDA, CuDnn and Game ready, I got a black screen again but this time I figured out why it happened so then I rebooted my laptop in safemode deleted the game ready driver completely and it worked.
So, I guess it is not possible to keep both.