TechPowerUp NVCleanstall: Take Control Over Your NVIDIA Driver Installation

TechPowerUp NVCleanstall v1.12.0 Released Now 11, 2021

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of NVCleanstall, our popular utility that gives you much greater control over the installation of your GeForce software installation, letting you filter out several components you probably don't need, such as Telemetry. Version 1.11.0 introduces support for Windows 11. The utility will now recommend an upgrade from non-DCH to DCH drivers, because NVIDIA stopped releasing non-DCH drivers recently. A new tweak has been added, which when enabled, shows DLSS status and library version through an in-game overlay. Fixes and improvements include a notice when selecting the "Disable NVIDIA Container" option (that it will break NVIDIA Control Panel); bugs related to several third-party driver packages due to a case-sensitivity issue, etc.

Spoiler: Change log

Update Nov 11th: We just released NVCleanstall v1.12.0 to fix a bug that got introduced in v1.11.0: On systems with a language that doesn't use "." as decimal separator, an error "Input string is not in a correct format" would pop up.

The change-log follows.

• Added support for Windows 11
• NVIDIA no longer releases non-DCH drivers. NVCleanstall will now recommend an upgrade from non-DCH to DCH when a driver older than 496.13 is installed
• On the final screen you may now pick multiple tasks from "Install", "Show in Folder" and "Build Package"
• Added a Tweaks option to show DLSS status and version overlay in-game
• Added notice to "Disable NVIDIA Container" option that clarifies that enabling it will break the NVIDIA Control Panel
• Fixed issues with some third party driver packages due to case-sensitivity issue
• Improved SFX creation flow to avoid race conditions
• Fixed NVCleanstall window redraw hung for a few seconds after driver installation
• To fix a compatibility issue with winget, NVCleanstall will now wait for the installer to complete before terminating

NVCleanstall support forum on Techpowerup

How to mod and sign NVIDIA drivers with NVCleanstall

 

Will this mean modding drivers for newer MXM cards will be easier for older laptops?

 

Thats what this program does basically

 

Does anyone remember guru3d forums filled with hate threads about nvcleanstall being a rip-off of nvcleaner from guru3d?
Fast forward now, most of them uses nvcleanstall by techpowerup.com

 

These are the only forums I surf anymore

 

I do remember and stopped going there due to toxicity of the community. Only surf NBR and mydigitallife forums and xda developers and that's it

 

Nice seeing Chris Titus finally saw the light Yeah, he have done it totally wrong the last decade bro @Mr. Fox But nice he can put focus on the advantage of no/less bloat.

 

But nvidia will move most things to Display container so that removal seems worthless in future.

 

You're alive today. None know where you are tomorrow And none know what can be done in the future.

 

I'm using microsoft's windows update cab package as nvidia driver. Too many bloatware and wasted disk space and bandwidth.

 

TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.10.0 Released July 1, 2021

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of NVCleanstall, our handy, lightweight utility that lets you customize your NVIDIA drivers installation to a much greater degree than the "Custom" install option in the NVIDIA Installer, letting you toggle components and features you didn't even know exist. The latest version 1.10.0 introduces several updates. For starters, it fixes ShadowPlay not working (even though selected), due to a missing reference to NvModuleTracker. We've introduced an additional driver signing mode that's compatible with EasyAntiCheat. NVCleanstall now discards the generated private key once the signature rebuild is complete, for additional security.

We've introduced a feature that lets you create a self-contained EXE installer with the installation options you've selected. The option to disable NVContainer has been introduced, however, this may break GeForce Experience, and removes NVIDIA's Desktop context menu. You can configure MSI (message-signaled-interrupt) CPU selection and priority. NVCleanstall also makes sure MSI only gets activated on NVIDIA GPU devices. An option has been added letting you disable HDCP. The app now warns you that UWP apps can't be installed in Safe Mode, if you request the Control Panel app while running in Safe Mode. The app also warns about installation of GeForce Experience in Safe Mode. Both these limitations are due to Safe Mode, not NVCleanstall. When customizing your install, you can now also provide hooks to run programs before and after installation. Grab NVCleanstall from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.10.0

 

I really like this feature. It is more convenient than opening the temporary folder and copying it to another location.

 

TechPowerUp NVCleanstall v1.11.0 Released Today, 12:53

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of NVCleanstall, our popular utility that gives you much greater control over the installation of your GeForce software installation, letting you filter out several components you probably don't need, such as Telemetry. Version 1.11.0 introduces support for Windows 11. The utility will now recommend an upgrade from non-DCH to DCH drivers, because NVIDIA stopped releasing non-DCH drivers recently. A new tweak has been added, which when enabled, shows DLSS status and library version through an in-game overlay. Fixes and improvements include a notice when selecting the "Disable NVIDIA Container" option (that it will break NVIDIA Control Panel); bugs related to several third-party driver packages due to a case-sensitivity issue, etc.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.11.0

The change-log follows.

• Added support for Windows 11
• NVIDIA no longer releases non-DCH drivers. NVCleanstall will now recommend an upgrade from non-DCH to DCH when a driver older than 496.13 is installed
• On the final screen you may now pick multiple tasks from "Install", "Show in Folder" and "Build Package"
• Added a Tweaks option to show DLSS status and version overlay in-game
• Added notice to "Disable NVIDIA Container" option that clarifies that enabling it will break the NVIDIA Control Panel
• Fixed issues with some third party driver packages due to case-sensitivity issue
• Improved SFX creation flow to avoid race conditions
• Fixed NVCleanstall window redraw hung for a few seconds after driver installation
• To fix a compatibility issue with winget, NVCleanstall will now wait for the installer to complete before terminating

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/techpowerup-nvcleanstall-v1-12-0-released.288833

Update Nov 11th: We just released NVCleanstall v1.12.0 to fix a bug that got introduced in v1.11.0: On systems with a language that doesn't use "." as decimal separator, an error "Input string is not in a correct format" would pop up.

The change-log follows.

Added support for Windows 11

NVIDIA no longer releases non-DCH drivers. NVCleanstall will now recommend an upgrade from non-DCH to DCH when a driver older than 496.13 is installed

On the final screen you may now pick multiple tasks from "Install", "Show in Folder" and "Build Package"

Added a Tweaks option to show DLSS status and version overlay in-game

Added notice to "Disable NVIDIA Container" option that clarifies that enabling it will break the NVIDIA Control Panel

Fixed issues with some third party driver packages due to case-sensitivity issue

Improved SFX creation flow to avoid race conditions

Fixed NVCleanstall window redraw hung for a few seconds after driver installation

To fix a compatibility issue with winget, NVCleanstall will now wait for the installer to complete before terminating

 

What we need now is a version of NVCleanstall that makes DCH drivers non-DCH. Otherwise, I will be using a driver older than 496.13 until avoiding their filth becomes impossible. This is just one more example of the hopelessly pathetic state of being the tech realm has entered. When you have nothing left but inferior feces like this, apathy becomes the only solution to dealing with unsolvable incompetence. This list of what is wrong with Windows and the hardware it is made to run on is beginning to overshadow the list of things that are good. I'm starting to think that the only thing good about owning a PC is that the alternative is more unacceptable.

 

Well, I think it might not be possible since W11 mandates DCH or newer standards if W12 comes up w/ iOS app sideloading etc..
Only issue is UWP apps are getting slower day by day even on latest drivers and app updates and I had to switch to 3 years old for Intel and nvidia standard drivers from MSFT update catalog which also fixed the dreadful Nvidia Optimus Freezing bug.

 

Added link to " How to mod and sign NVIDIA drivers with NVCleanstall" in OP.