Driver for NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 - downloading and installing it

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 is a Display Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by NVIDIA. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_10DE&DEV_161A&SUBSYS_17581458.

1. Install NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver. The archive contains version 24.21.13.9764 released on 2018-05-07 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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NVIDIA applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 257324927 bytes (245.40 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.9 stars out of 30333 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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. Installing the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 see!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you find the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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