Switch from Nvidia DCH to Standard drivers

Watch the video:

0:00 - Explanation
1:14 - Download NON-DCH Nvidia Drivers in 2021
2:05 - Are DCH and Standard different? Yes.
2:30 - Clean reinstall or not?
2:48 - Using DDU to clean uninstall Nvidia DCH
3:33 - Using DDU
4:04 - Rebooting into Safe Mode
5:15 - Steps to use DDU

There are small differences between dch drivers and normal drivers. But if you choose to have one over the other, he has had a switch between them.

Download normal drivers

The first thing to do is to download the standard drivers that aren’t DCH, head to the Nvidia download website and make sure to select your correct hardware, also choose “Standard” under Windows Driver Type, then choose download.

Once the download is complete, put this on your desktop for easy access later.

Prepare to uninstall existing driver

To uninstall the Nvidia drivers properly, the best thing to use to boot into safe mode and then uninstall them with a tool called display driver and then re-install them later.

Download DDU and extract the zip onto a place like your desktop, so that the .exe is easily accessible.

Now we need to boot into safe mode. There are two ways of doing this:

1. To boot into safe mode open command prompt as administrator and run the following command: bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal

2. Press start type in msconfig and hit enter it. This opens System Configuration. Head to the boot tab and make sure to tick Safe boot as well as a Minimal right below it. Choose apply and OK.

Uninstall old driver

Once in safe mode, open at ddu. In the options screen, I like the tick Remove C:\NVIDIA driver folders which isn’t recommended, nut what we’re doing here is a clean reinstall. So this should be fine.

Hit close, then from ---Select device type--- select “GPU”.

From the drop down below, then selected Nvidia.

Before an installing I’d recommend unplugging your Ethernet cable and turning off your WiFi so that it doesn’t automatically download a fresh DCH copy, which is what we’re trying to uninstall. Will disable safe mode, so once again run bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot, or try msconfig, boot, then turn safe boot off.

If the above command doesn’t work, try the following: bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

In DDU, you click clean and restart.

And wait for your system to reboot.

Install Non-DCH driver

Now to install the Non-DCH driver before Windows does. That’s why we unplugged the Internet and disabled it.

All we need to do is run the installer that we downloaded and placed on the desktop earlier.

Once this install is complete, you can reconnect to the Internet and use your computer as normal. If you’d like, you can reboot. If that’s what you prefer.