Windows – Installing nvidia drivers on server 2012

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I was trying to install the nvidia drivers for my server running windows server 2012 R2.

I am not sure that I was sucsessful, in that I was able to use pnputil to load the inf file (as per this article) but I am not sure if it worked properly (the program said it was sucsessful, but it also shows that there is a 3D controller that does not have a driver in device manager)

How can I properly install this driver, or see if it is already installed?

I am not looking for what is necessarily the most recent driver, but any driver would be better than what I have.

While I happen to have a GTX 765, this should be a relatively general question that applies to many video drivers.

Edit: The drivers were not installed (in the sense that performance was unchanged at all when attempting to play anything, and it still does not show up in device manager)

Best Answer

I found the solution!

I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 Ti and i am writing this from a Windows Server 2012 R2, and 2 Displays ("Surroundview") , one with 4K UHD solution, one with full hd.

The INSTALLER from Nvidia is not working.

Follow this instruction

  1. Download the Win 8.1. Driver for your Video Card, but not the last one, but the "GeForce-Game-ready-Treiber, WHQL-Version" This Driver ist a "MS Signed" Driver.

My Version is 355.82, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit

  1. Lern mal mehr english
    (http://www.nvidia.de/download/driverResults.aspx/90633/de)

  2. Unzip the driver.

  3. Go to Device Manager, (Right Mouse click on windows Start botton)
  4. Video Card 6 Rightclick, new driver, and search the Directory where you unzipped the downloaded driver

  5. Let search it automatically.

  6. Displays getting dark

  7. Scream for fun, you have 2 Displays working now with Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, running on hardware, video card is Palit GTX 660 Ti, Display 1 is connected to display port and its running DAMN 4K / UHD solution. Display 2 is running full HD and is connected to the DVI-D.
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