NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 is a Display Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by NVIDIA. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10DE&DEV_161A&SUBSYS_116F1462; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver. The archive contains version 24.21.13.9924 released on 2018-09-05 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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NVIDIA applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 259217084 bytes (247.21 MB)
Driver rating 4.2 stars out of 40898 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits

2. How to install NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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