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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

If using NVCleanstall for installing drivers, how does one upgrade to the newer version of drivers using nvcleaninstall?

Is it just a case of opening nvcleaninstall and going through the process and selecting the clean install option?



Also, my cpu definitely seems to get less hammered during gaming without all the telemetry/bloat installed, tested in cyberpunk.
 
Nexus18 said:
If using NVCleanstall for installing drivers, how does one upgrade to the newer version of drivers using nvcleaninstall?

Is it just a case of opening nvcleaninstall and going through the process and selecting the clean install option?



Also, my cpu definitely seems to get less hammered during gaming without all the telemetry/bloat installed, tested in cyberpunk.
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You start nvcleaninstall
pick the driver version within it (if what you want isnt listed, you can pick an option to manually select driver package you downloaded).
then it runs the installer, keep nvcleaninstall open whilst its running.
You do not need to pick clean install, thats only there if for some reason you have fun having to reconfigure your drivers again.
Once drivers are installed, then you close nvcleaninstall.

Now here is the caveat.

I observed e.g. if I chose to not install hdmi audio in the installer, I still had hdmi audio driver installed, because windows itself comes with an nvidia driver, so it falls back to that driver, this makes me wonder if other missing components also just auto fallback. The dev of nvcleaninstall told me the nvidia installer wipes the current driver before installing, but when I discovered the hdmi audio problem I am not so sure.

So if you want to be sure what you pick to not install is not on your system then running DDU first might be a good idea. I think once you have DONE DDU -> nvcleaninstall once though, you can probably just use nvcleaninstall for future upgrades after without DDU providing you keep to the same installed components.
 
chrcoluk said:
You start nvcleaninstall
pick the driver version within it (if what you want isnt listed, you can pick an option to manually select driver package you downloaded).
then it runs the installer, keep nvcleaninstall open whilst its running.
You do not need to pick clean install, thats only there if for some reason you have fun having to reconfigure your drivers again.
Once drivers are installed, then you close nvcleaninstall.

Now here is the caveat.

I observed e.g. if I chose to not install hdmi audio in the installer, I still had hdmi audio driver installed, because windows itself comes with an nvidia driver, so it falls back to that driver, this makes me wonder if other missing components also just auto fallback. The dev of nvcleaninstall told me the nvidia installer wipes the current driver before installing, but when I discovered the hdmi audio problem I am not so sure.

So if you want to be sure what you pick to not install is not on your system then running DDU first might be a good idea. I think once you have DONE DDU -> nvcleaninstall once though, you can probably just use nvcleaninstall for future upgrades after without DDU providing you keep to the same installed components.
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Thanks!

And yup, I used DDU before using nvcleaninstall. So far not had any issues.
 
I just confirmed my own thoughts, so yeah run DDU before the first use of nvcleaninstall, I will probably do it over next couple of days.

See in this screenshot I have 457.30 of nvmctray.dll (457.30 came from windows update on first boot of windows).

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Personally I seen less cpu usage and ever so slightly higher FPS in cyberpunk with my 3080 and 2600 @4.1 but not enough of a difference to be worrying about or rather it doesn't make a big enough difference.

It's nice knowing my system is a lot cleaner and doesn't have privacy invading telemetry now though.....
 
Nexus18 said:
I have all windows 10 privacy stuff disabled too :p
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Yep at least you can turn it off in Windows and not have to resort to other methods.

I was trying to remember the default for Nvcleaninstall and its driver and hdmi audio is also needed due to the problem you saw plus I install usb-c driver too as Windows 10 tries to install its own and last time I didnt include it weird USB stuff was happening.
 
Nexus18 said:
It's nice knowing my system is a lot cleaner and doesn't have privacy invading telemetry now though.....
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Less for sure, but even the base driver sends telemetry if you don't block it. I run Windows Firewall Control and it always notifies me on a fresh Nvidia driver install that it's asking for network access, even stripped down as much as it can be via NVCleanstall. Which I decline to give it, of course.
 
Game Ready Driver 461.92

Fixes
Some desktop applications may flicker or stutter when resizing the window on some PC configurations [3252200].
[GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER]: Random flickering may appear across the top of the monitor on some PC configurations. [3184254]
[Vulkan][Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game may display pixelated black dots or artifacts on characters’ skin. [3257041/3266614]
[Rocket League]: Matches may take longer to load. [3244324]
[Fortnite]: Shader cache optimizations have been made to reduce intermittent stutter on some PC configurations. [3244272]
[Detroit: Become Human]: Game may crash when launched with Image Sharpening enabled. [3242624/200667092]
[Dungeon & Fighter]: The game may blink when choosing characters. [200574764]
[Zoom]: GeForce Experience In-game Overlay launches when a Zoom meeting starts. [3269577]
Enabling NVIDIA Surround with 4K HDMI 2.1 TVs may fail. [3184849]
Blue-screen crash may occur when connecting/disconnecting to/from the Samsung 8k TV. [3188971]
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Open Issues
[Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan]: Smoke appears pixelated. [3266916]
[World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
[Supreme Commander/Supreme Commander 2]: The games experience low FPS. [3231218]
[Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
[G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere/Turing GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
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Standard: https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/171473/en-us
DCH: https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/171474/en-us

Open issues and fixes are just getting bigger and bigger!
 
If you were not so paranoid and just installed the driver you would see Reflex mentioned in GFE for Overwatch Test Region < not my type of game.


I cannot copy/paste the text from GFE.

nvidia-reflex-overwatch-ptr-system-latency-performance-chart.png
 
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