Will solidworks 2005 run on win 10 drivers#
Will solidworks 2005 run on win 10 driver#
This is done by putting Windows into "safe mode" where it does not use most drivers and then uninstalling and deleting the driver files themselves. The second step is to delete any drivers that windows is pegged against because Windows will not allow drivers it is using to be fully uninstalled. This is done by uninstalling all software that puts drivers on the hard drive. There are three parts to getting Windows to use your preferred driver for the hardware, one is removing any installed software that provides drivers.
If you just use the vanilla Intel video drivers, they won't respect the AMD wish to take control of graphics and the AMD video card will sit unused in your laptop.
Dell engineers have to specificaly craft a version of the intell driver installers that is compatible with this configuration.Īutomatic driver/windows updates and OS changes can trounce on this delicate configuration and you're at the mercy of the Dell support people about when you'll get an updated driver.
With the AMD/Intel version of this, it is a very fragile configuration and you can't download any old version of the drivers and expect them to work. For background, some Dell laptops have a feature where they use a low-powered intel graphics card when undemanding applications are running, but they switch to a high-power, high-wattage graphics card (AMD Radeon series) when demanding games are running.