Windows 7 How to: Update Your NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Drivers

Graphics cards and drivers are preferable when they are already installed. Lol. Whenever a re-formatting is needed or suppose a new OS is to be tried in your computer, one can not but be unsettled with questions like will the beta or early release support my graphics card, or in many cases several graphics cards and will the frame rate suffer, what if it doesn’t install and so on and so forth. So before you try out Windows 7, you must know what two of the best graphics card manufacturers prescribe you.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA drivers for the Windows 7 Beta release can be downloaded directly from Microsoft’s Windows Update service.

Instructions:

1. After a fresh installation of the Windows 7 Beta, click on the Start button.
2. Click Windows Update (it will be pinned to the top of the start menu). You can also type “Windows Update” into the start menu Search to locate Windows Update.
3. Within Windows Update, locate and install the NVIDIA Driver update (it will either be an important update or an optional update depending on your system).

AMD

ATI Catalyst Beta driver package for Windows 7 - includes the ATI Catalyst Beta driver for Windows 7, and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center (with limited feature support).

To download the ATI Catalyst™ Beta Driver Package for Windows 7, please click on the links below:

Catalyst 32-bit Windows 7 Beta Driver
Catalyst 64-bit Windows 7 Beta Driver

To view the release notes for the ATI Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows 7, please click the link below:

Catalyst Windows 7 Beta Driver Release Notes

Note: This Beta driver is provided “as is” and is not supported by AMD, and may contain software bugs. It has not completed full AMD testing. Use of this software is at your own risk.