NVIDIA focuses on making the gaming experience better for users. NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready driver provides new options for new gamers. However, for the best gaming experience, you will need the latest Game Ready driver on your PC. If you keep encountering the “Installation of the GeForce Game Ready driver cannot continue” error, you won’t be able to update the driver.
This can happen for many reasons such as a driver not supported by graphics cards, lack of memory, a third party antivirus interfering with the installation, or some kind of problem with the installation file.
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Fixed an issue that prevented the NVIDIA installer from continuing on Windows
Nothing to worry about; We’ve put together a list of troubleshooting steps to help you fix the “GeForce Game Ready Driver Installation Cannot Continue”error.
Restart the GeForce application.
Sometimes this problem can be caused by errors in the application. Try restarting the application if you are unable to update the GeForce Game Ready driver. This will fix the error in the application and you should now be able to update the driver. If this does not help, you can try to end all NVIDIA processes in the background and restart the update process.
- Press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
- On the Process tab , select the NVIDIA process and click End Task.
- Do this for all NVIDIA tasks presented here.
- Now launch the GeForce app and try updating the driver again.
Make sure there is enough space
You may encounter the “Installation of GeForce Game Ready cannot continue” error if your PC is running out of space. Make sure the drive partition you are trying to install the driver update on has at least 3 GB of free space; if not, clear the space and try updating the driver again.
Update Windows
If you are using an outdated version of Windows, you may also experience this issue. You can try updating Windows to the latest version to fix this issue. To do this, follow the steps given below:
- First, open the Settings app on your PC; To do this, use the keyboard shortcut Windows + I.
- On the left sidebar, click the Windows Update section .
- Click the Check for Updates button to search for available updates.
- Install all the updates listed here, and then restart your computer.
- Check if the problem is fixed or not. If the issue persists, continue to the next step.
Manually install game-ready driver
Another thing you can do is manually install NVIDIA drivers. You can go to the NVIDIA website, download the driver from there and install it. To do this, follow the steps given below:
- Click this link to go to the NVIDIA driver download page.
- Select here the product type, series, operating system, language and product. Set the download type as Game Ready Driver (GRD) , and then click Search.
- You will get the latest available driver in the search results; download.
- Open File Explorer by pressing the key combination Windows + E. Here navigate to the location where the download file is saved.
- Right-click the driver and select Run as administrator.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to install the driver on your computer.
Disable antivirus
If you are using any third party antivirus on your PC, it can also cause this problem. If you’re getting the message “GeForce Game Ready Disc Installation Cannot Continue”, disable your antivirus or malware on your PC. Check if this fixes the issue and if you can install the update now.
Clean Install Custom Update
Another troubleshooting step is to individually clean install the update through the GeForce app. To do this, follow the steps given below:
- Open the GeForce Experience app on your PC.
- Here, go to the Drivers tab. Here, click the Check for Updates button .
- All available updates will be listed here. Click the Custom Install button next to the update you want to install.
- You can check all the boxes on the next page, as well as the Perform a clean install check box .
- Now click the Install button to install the update.
Reinstall the GeForce Experience App
If you are still facing the issue, we suggest that you reinstall the GeForce Experience app. To do this, follow the steps given below:
- Press Windows Key + I to open the Settings app on your Windows PC.
- Here, in the Applications tab on the left sidebar, click on the Installed Applications button .
- In the list of applications, find NVIDIA GeForce Experience ; click on the three dots next to it and then on Delete.
- Click “Delete”to confirm the deletion of the application.
- Now do the same for the NVIDIA graphics driver.
- After that, go to the NVIDIA website and download the driver from here.
- Install the downloaded driver, which should install the latest Game Ready driver.
Final words
If you can’t install the GeForce Game Ready driver update and keep getting the “Installation of the GeForce Game Ready driver cannot continue”error, this article should help you fix it. You can follow the steps above in this article to install the latest Game Ready driver update.