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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

fatlenny said:
Hello I've not been here for sometime so go gentle ;)
I've just popped in a new graphics card and ran a clean install for the drivers. Now the edge browser is just a black screen. Everything is working apart from the browser problem.

I have removed Edge and done the nvidia driver as well. I have searched on the interweb and just come up with nothing the same as my problem.

Is this the right room ? Soory if its wrong

Lenny
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I'm trying to diagnose an issue atm with new Chromium based Edge and other browsers & Thunderbird too. Basically seeing slow loading times. I've found by luck that if I reboot and then log into it via RDP it works fine, new Edge invokes nearly instantly. When I'm sat in front of the PC again, some applications are taking 7+ seconds to open.
I've tried disabling g-sync, unplugging a second monitor, lowering the resolution to that of my laptop which I used to RDP to the PC and still slow loading times. Seems to be a driver issue atm. Not great when an old 2012 laptop opens Edge instantly but 9900K system is taking 7+ seconds :D. Tried rolling back to old edge and that works fine, super fast again.
 
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After lots of time spent diagnosing I ended up doing a fresh install of OS, something I tend to avoid doing these days. Tried rolling back to old driver versions. Also tried checking which services were running & weren't when using RDP but was inconclusive. The Chromium based browsers all seemed to suffer with the problem (slow to open) and even using search from Windows Explorer was hanging at times. could have course be something other than the NV driver that caused it.
 
Are you sure? I recently did a rebuild of Windows 10 (few days ago) on my HTPC. Certainly had to get Nvidia control from the Windows Store after downloading and installing the latest Game Ready Drivers first that did not.
 
Kelt said:
I've never had to download the control panel separately, but I only use standard Nvidia drivers, ie not DCH.
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When did you last do a complete reinstall? this was with Game Drivers not DCH, you had to get the CP via MS store. I think it a recent thing as I have 3 PC's here with nvidia GPUs in and never had to do it before. Once control panel is installed, then its a non-issue, but if a total brand new clean build, then the game ready drivers will not install CP. Evidently not only one as Things change I've changed also had to do it.

Infact, when I went to download the drivers on NVIDIA site, there is no DCH option anyways. Only option was Game Ready Drivers (no standard anymore) or Studio drivers.
 
Radox-0 said:
When did you last do a complete reinstall? this was with Game Drivers not DCH, you had to get the CP via MS store. I think it a recent thing as I have 3 PC's here with nvidia GPUs in and never had to do it before. Once control panel is installed, then its a non-issue, but if a total brand new clean build, then the game ready drivers will not install CP. Evidently not only one as Things change I've changed also had to do it.

Infact, when I went to download the drivers on NVIDIA site, there is no DCH option anyways. Only option was Game Ready Drivers (no standard anymore) or Studio drivers.
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Been a few years since I put Win 10 on, was OK then.

Have things changed then, seems a bit pointless?
 
Kelt said:
Been a few years since I put Win 10 on, was OK then.

Have things changed then?
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I think so if that the case. As I say, got couple of PC's all with W10 also, never had to go through this weird way to get CP as like most, just came as part of the normal drivers and not done complete clean build in a while. Was genuinely puzzled for a while thinking I also downloaded the DCH drivers which would have explained things but upon double checking, not the case as searching for drivers on Nvidia's site (well this link at least https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk) only shows Game Ready Drivers and Studio drivers now, no DCH option, at least for latest ones, not sure when DCH dropped off the list.

I think if you already have CP installed then its a non-issue as other PCs which just get updated for couple of years rather then fresh install have been fine.
 
Radox-0 said:
I think so if that the case. As I say, got couple of PC's all with W10 also, never had to go through this weird way to get CP as like most, just came as part of the normal drivers and not done complete clean build in a while. Was genuinely puzzled for a while thinking I also downloaded the DCH drivers which would have explained things but upon double checking, not the case as searching for drivers on Nvidia's site (well this link at least https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk) only shows Game Ready Drivers and Studio drivers now, no DCH option, at least for latest ones, not sure when DCH dropped off the list.

I think if you already have CP installed then its a non-issue as other PCs which just get updated for couple of years rather then fresh install have been fine.
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I waved the white flag i cba anymore i too got to do this. I just bookmarked the NVCPL MS store address so i have it and it requires network location awareness enabled. I do not see anything but a normal driver no choice of DCH but next time


Format offline and see i have a hint the reason why we cannot see a choice is we got preinstalled with the latest build a Nvidia DCH driver as part of windows. Can the website maybe see that? And maybe you can only see non DCH if you have a non DCH driver. But it windows stealth installed a DCH driver, You can never revert it seems as A its bugged and B where do you choose a regular driver?
 
Radox-0 said:
When did you last do a complete reinstall? this was with Game Drivers not DCH, you had to get the CP via MS store. I think it a recent thing as I have 3 PC's here with nvidia GPUs in and never had to do it before. Once control panel is installed, then its a non-issue, but if a total brand new clean build, then the game ready drivers will not install CP. Evidently not only one as Things change I've changed also had to do it.

Infact, when I went to download the drivers on NVIDIA site, there is no DCH option anyways. Only option was Game Ready Drivers (no standard anymore) or Studio drivers.
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The options there for me :-

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Its only the DCH drivers, that use the CP via the MS Store.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4777/~/nvidia-dch/standard-display-drivers-for-windows-10-faq
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
The options there for me :-

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Its only the DCH drivers, that use the CP via the MS Store.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4777/~/nvidia-dch/standard-display-drivers-for-windows-10-faq
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Seems your going a different route as the normal page here: https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk does not show that, it has these options:

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EDIT: seems there is two pages. One for Advanced drivers search which is what your doing: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

and the normal one which when most people hit nvidia drivers download, will go to my link. Not sure why there is a discrepancy and why the normal page most people land at has changed.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Right click on 'show overclock' tab or click in icon tray and go to 'Multi display power Saver' then match the settings like mine below.

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Interestingly, my 2080 Super still uses 25W at IDLE with two displays, even with your settings. One running 144hz the othe running 60. Maybe the mismatch in timings causes extra power draw?
 
Jarrod said:
Interestingly, my 2080 Super still uses 25W at IDLE with two displays, even with your settings. One running 144hz the othe running 60. Maybe the mismatch in timings causes extra power draw?
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Higher refresh rates are more demanding anyway, running 2 monitors even more so. I've always had higher idle power usage when using higher refresh rates and dual monitor.
 
Radox-0 said:
Seems your going a different route as the normal page here: https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk does not show that, it has these options:

n3K26zF.png

EDIT: seems there is two pages. One for Advanced drivers search which is what your doing: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

and the normal one which when most people hit nvidia drivers download, will go to my link. Not sure why there is a discrepancy and why the normal page most people land at has changed.
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Yeah i go the advanced, as i use the DCHs :)
 
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