552.22 - Clean Version

Can you please undecrypt the archive folders? It won't let me download the most recent archives. Much respect, you are a legend!

 

In advance, thanks for GeForce 497.09 WHQL clean version.

 

Seriously clean version? All I wanted is the driver so why does it come out as 1.3GB?

 

its not clean yet. so don't download it.

 

Updated to v497.09

 

Just letting you guys know: You can further compress these drivers by ~26% by creating a .bat file with the following code and executing it in the Display.Driver folder:

Code:

@echo off
expand -r *.??_
del *.??_
rename *.dl *.dl_
rename *.ex *.ex_
rename *.sy *.sy_
rename *.bi *.bi_
rename *.ic *.ic_

All this does is decompress the files in this folder ending with "_" to allow for better compressibility. I used 7-Zip Ultra settings after using this method on the Clean 497.09 RTX x64 Desktop drivers and ended up with a 503 MB file. The one provided here is 682 MB.

This doesn't affect driver installation whatsoever. I tested with DDU and installed clean.

Feel free to use this method going forward with these releases.

 

Thank You!!!

 

I see that there is a nodejs folder included in the notebook variation.Is this necessary to be present as all i can find searching shows Nvidia Web Helper which looks like just another form of telemetry to me.
Can anyone clarify what exactly nodejs does. Thank you

 

Updated to v497.29

 

Damn that was fast, many thanks

 

desktop and notebook driver versions have no differences at all

 

NVIDIA merges the desktop and notebook drivers into one driver and offers them as separate downloads. They have been doing this since Windows 10 was released in 2015 and probably before.

 

If this is really the case, then moving forward I'll only be uploading the "desktop" versions for RTX and GTX

 

Nice, is it possible to compress even more to reduce the .7z size?

 

353.49's Win10 installers are identical (MD-5 hash E4DE0D055FCC877CDD57623CB1058EE7):


497.29's Win10 installers are identical (MD-5 hash 6C492717AB998598006FB64BFEC81839):

 

I always wondered what the actual differences between Desktop and laptop drivers were. I guess there was some back in the day, but the way it seems now - Nvidia has merged the branches altogether.

 

this

 

The solution I posted earlier with the .bat file will compress the drivers further by over 20%. I noticed @Eviltoaster started doing it with the 497.29 release. Put a .bat file in the Display.Driver directory with the following code:

Code:

@echo off
expand -r *.??_
del *.??_
rename *.dl *.dl_
rename *.ex *.ex_
rename *.sy *.sy_
rename *.bi *.bi_
rename *.ic *.ic_

You can do this with any release directly from NVIDIA or one that hasn't already gone through this process.

 

I am stuck with 472.19 drivers due to Nvidia installing telemetry reducing the hash rate of their 3090s.

I like to mine when I am not gaming, any idea how to get rid of this telemetry from their drivers?

 

Uninstall your current drivers using DDU then install these clean drivers. They don't include telemetry, so you should be good. Installing GeForce Experience reinstalls telemetry, though, FYI. I don't mine with my card, so I couldn't tell you for sure if this removes the hash rate limiter.