**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[wunkley]

Tad confused here. I read somewhere the other day we would need a new 595.99 driver and latest NV app or updated NVPI to use this - got the others but there's no 595.99 anywhere. Which drivers work with this new MFG? I'm still on 581.80 as I had some problems with 595.97 and NV app says "update your drivers to the latest version".

Do we HAVE to use 595.97 then? Really don't want to do that as they cause BSOD when using Open Composite in VR!

 

[greatash]

Well I'm annoyed

I loaded up Battlefield 6 and it did shaders like a new nvidia driver was installed, yet the one I installed over a week ago was the 581.89! Checking MSI Afterburner and it showed 591.86 which is a completely different driver, a driver installed by Windows Update.

So I checked Windows Update and sure enough Successfully installed on ‎31/‎03/‎2026.

Because of that Windows Update issue whereby some systems were affected by BSOD's and performance issues ( it was recalled ) I had turned everything is OFF, including services (disabled) to stop these updates coming over.

I have NEVER allowed Windows to install it's own crappy drivers

So yeh, it's forced installed and turned services back on. I thought this **** wasn't going to happen anymore

I just checked my driver's and mine has done the same. Was on 576.88 for resident evil requiem and windows has installed 591.86 yesterday

 

[Rroff]

Well I'm annoyed

I loaded up Battlefield 6 and it did shaders like a new nvidia driver was installed, yet the one I installed over a week ago was the 581.89! Checking MSI Afterburner and it showed 591.86 which is a completely different driver, a driver installed by Windows Update.

So I checked Windows Update and sure enough Successfully installed on ‎31/‎03/‎2026.

Because of that Windows Update issue whereby some systems were affected by BSOD's and performance issues ( it was recalled ) I had turned everything is OFF, including services (disabled) to stop these updates coming over.

I have NEVER allowed Windows to install it's own crappy drivers

So yeh, it's forced installed and turned services back on. I thought this **** wasn't going to happen anymore

Wow - I wondered why I had some graphics glitches last couple of days on my gaming system which I intentionally kept on 591.74, just checked and Windows Update has installed 591.86 on the 30th... **** sake I'll have to enable WUB to prevent this stupidity. Seems they are forcing the driver through as a mandatory install for some reason... WTF. (And it has caused an incompatibility issue with nVidia App which can only be solved by manually completely redoing the driver and app updates).

(Only Windows Update Blocker will prevent this behaviour - disabling the update services, policies and most of the other update blocking scripts do not comprehensively block updates).