nVIDIA GeForce Driver v442.19

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Game Ready for Zombie Army: Dead War 4
The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Zombie Army: Dead War 4. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Apex Legends Season 4 and Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story.

Maximum Framerate
In the last Game Ready Driver, we introduced a new Maximum Framerate Setting into the NVIDIA Control Panel which allowed gamers to set the max framerate a 3D application or game can render. With the latest Game Ready Driver, we’ve incorporated community feedback asking for the limits to be extended. As a result, framerate limits can be as low as 20fps and can be raised as high as 1000fps.

 

Yooo promote the DCH filthy...

Real drivers here...
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-geforce-graphics-drivers/


As usual... New is always better @Falkentyne Got a love that move to the Store.

Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v442.19)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...e-44219-game-ready-driver-feedback-thread-re/

Display Driver Uninstaller https://www.wagnardsoft.com/

TechPowerUp Releases NVCleanstall 1.3.0
by btarunr Today, 14:50
TechPowerUp today released the latest update to NVCleanstall, our lightweight utility that lets you heavily customize your NVIDIA GeForce software installation, letting you choose not to install a lot more components than what NVIDIA's installer allows. You can disable installation of components you probably don't need, such as telemetry. Version 1.3.0 introduces the ability to install the NVIDIA Control Panel app from Microsoft Store without needing to log-in with a Microsoft account, for the DCH version of GeForce Software. This is particularly useful for those using the DCH version of GeForce software without wanting to log into Microsoft Store.

TechPowerUp NVCleanstall Version 1.3.0 also introduces a tweak that makes the driver use message-signaled interrupts (MSI). We have reorganized the user interface to move a large selection of advanced tweaks to their own page. As part of the driver customization process, you can make advanced tweaks in this page, or move on to building your custom driver package. We've also added the ability for you to drag-and-drop downloaded driver files onto NVCleanstall for them to be used as installer source. Lastly, we fixed background driver update check not getting disabled when its checkbox is unchecked. Grab NVCleanstall from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.3.0

You're all welcome to the new barbeque party. Let's see how much this driver will destroy for the users Be prepered for more works if you have the Alienwares. And Please post bench results.

 

I guess with the introduction of 360Hz monitors they just moved the slider to 1000 lol.

Anyway I'm moving away from 1080p/240Hz/TN to 1440p/165Hz/IPS so I guess I'll be capping less

 

Ironically, Game Ready for Zombie Army could aptly refer to the DCH driver users as much as the game, LOL.

You can also still download "real" drivers (instead of the DCH garbage) directly from NVIDIA. You just don't click on the link the Kool-Aid drinking monkeys use.

Use this link instead: Advanced Driver Search | NVIDIA

Under the "Windows Driver Type" options, select "Standard" and you won't get the DCH cancer version.

Even NVIDIA acknowledges that the DCH drivers are junk.

 

Just use NVCleanstall No need to fiddle into Nvidia's download page by yourself. Always pick standard drivers. None should support the collaboration ( beside sleepers) between M$ and Nvidia.

Yees. But Nvidia should get rid of this way split up their drivers package. Most likely got paid by M$ for each time people visit the Store and download it.

 

I have never tried that NVCleanstall utility (yet). I have not really needed it. I simply delete everything that is garbage, leaving only the folders shown below...



...and then edit the setup.cfg file to remove lines with reference to the crap highlighted below. (If you don't remove those three lines, the modded driver installation will fail.)



This isn't as thorough as a @j95 mod, but it gets rid of all of the useless trash payload.

 

modding the .inf file to install doesn't seem to work with this driver, anyone has any idea about this?

EDIT: fixed it, a windows update was creating the problem

 

OK, I just tested it on my desktop and laptop, for both Windows 10 (both systems) and Windows 7 (desktop). The NVCleanstall utility worked nicely. I like it. +5 rep

 

These are the options I use and this is what the folder looks like.

For my laptop I would have Optimus checked as it doesn't have a dedicated Mux switch.

 

Hey guys. Have a look here: Row Shading | HWiNFO32 & HWiNFO64 Bug Reports

This driver is really crappy as far as I am concerned. Caused some issues for me on Windows 7, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC and Windows 10 Enterprise 1909 on my desktop, and Windows 10 Enterprise 1909 on my laptop. The issue first noticed was the same across all of those installations.

 

How did they even break this ... That is super random .

The marvels of modern technology.

 

Yes it is pretty weird. I am not picky about a lot of things, but I am sensitive to aesthetic atrocities like the ugliness of the Windows 10 UI in its default state. When I see it get even uglier and Windows 7 starts to take on some of those visually disgusting traits I notice quickly. I am guessing those the do not find it disgusting and do not take steps to correct those defaults might be oblivious and the changes I saw might not be as immediately apparent.

 

The problem is that it could be a symptom of a deeper underlying problem in the driver.

 

Well, it's either the driver or the driver modding tool that I used. But, the problem is gone with an older driver installed the same way, so probably not the tool.

 

This is just my guess. Since the tool isn't necessarily updated after every release like DDU and the patch notes for the latest one doesn't show anything about the latest it could be that there were slight changes to the drivers and the tool is just generically adding/removing things.

442.19 [r440_00-289]
442.01 [r441_83-5]
441.87 [r441_83-4]

^ different branches so it might have a structure change.

On a second thought if it was causing errors across the board and seeing that you have multitudes of Windows version then it could be more driver specific rather than say a Windows update since you have 7 on there.

If you're not focused on gaming I would suggest the Studio Drivers as they're slightly more stable and less bombarded with "Game" fixes.

Another suggestion if you haven't already which in this day and age shouldn't really be needed but have been shown to fix some issues is using DDU to clear out the old remnants. 9 times out of 10 the "clean install" of Nvidia installer works just fine but clearing out the older drivers do help as well and/or having it disable Windows Update from installing its version before you install yours (symptom is uninstalling display drivers and on Windows bootup the screen disconnects and reconnects means it install an old version before you install your new version).

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/



I almost always do this for every install in Safe Mode (hold shift+restart).

Now this is probably all irrelevant and the main issue is the tool with the new drivers but trying to eliminate all possibilities would be better.

 

All good stuff. Thanks for the post, bro. I use DDU religiously and already do the things you suggested and I am sure that info will be super helpful to folks that didn't know about it. I believe it is driver-specific. I dropped back to an older driver and now everything is back to normal. I may try installing this driver again without any tweaks and see if the issue is the same. If it is not, then I will DDU it and try with my own normal tweaks (without that tool) and see what changes, if anything.

I am primarily focused on getting the highest benchmarks scores possible, and often older drivers are the best way to do that. I do like gaming, but I don't devote much time to it and very seldom purchase new titles. So, game fixes are not often something I pay any attention to.

 

Serious question: What exactly is dch, and why is it such trash?