Nvidia laptop GPU drivers

ljt · 2 Feb 2019 at 12:39

Not had a laptop with a dedicated GPU for a long long while, but I now have a laptop with a 1060 gpu in, and was wondering what the deal is with the GPU drivers.

It looks like it came installed with version 388.73 and geforce experience. These are the latest ones on the support page of the laptop manufacturer. I also loaded up GFE and did the check for update and it says I'm on the latest driver??

If I go to the nvidia site and search for 10 series notebook drivers it says 417.71 is the latest, so I'm a little confused as to why GFE wasn't telling me to update to these.

Secondly, on the nvidia driver site, there is a drop down with the option of "standard" and "dch", what is this? Which version should I be looking at?

Many thanks!

MiSJAH · 3 Feb 2019 at 04:13

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

No DCH option here.

ljt · 3 Feb 2019 at 09:45

MiSJAH said:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

No DCH option here.

It's the one called windows driver type. At least there is a bit of an explanation on that link you have though as the Nvidia GeForce uk site doesn't have the "?" Next to the drop down menu

willhub · 4 Feb 2019 at 08:33

I just install the latest desktop drivers had no issues.

tropicola · 14 Feb 2019 at 13:02

1 - tend to stick with the latest drivers the manufacture recommends (unless they are a bad company and do not update their page etc)
2 - update to latest drivers only if you are sure they are supported, most of the times you should experience no problems with this (unless your GPU requires a firmware update).

^ especially with laptops!, if you have a desktop GPU usually fine to update to latest drivers anyway.

also if you have trouble like i did removing traces of old crap drivers that conflicted with me getting the latest drivers you can use GURU3D software to clean up and uninstall nvidia and ati drivers.

then you can go to the site download latest GFE and update drivers that way - i would turn off windows update for drivers if I was you and manually control this, sometimes it tries to update nvidia drivers on its own and picks the wrong bloody one!

ljt · 14 Feb 2019 at 14:40

tropicola said:
1 - tend to stick with the latest drivers the manufacture recommends (unless they are a bad company and do not update their page etc)
2 - update to latest drivers only if you are sure they are supported, most of the times you should experience no problems with this (unless your GPU requires a firmware update).

^ especially with laptops!, if you have a desktop GPU usually fine to update to latest drivers anyway.

also if you have trouble like i did removing traces of old crap drivers that conflicted with me getting the latest drivers you can use GURU3D software to clean up and uninstall nvidia and ati drivers.

then you can go to the site download latest GFE and update drivers that way - i would turn off windows update for drivers if I was you and manually control this, sometimes it tries to update nvidia drivers on its own and picks the wrong bloody one!

Cheers chaps.

I just downloaded the standard notebook version off the nvidia website and just installed and hoped for the best lol. Thankfully they seem to have installed ok, and now GFE prompts me when there is a new driver.

The ones on the manufacturer site were very old version 388.something from 2017. (It was a Medion Erazer laptop)