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Fully utilize the minimal installer feature
You've heared about it, but unsure about what it'll do? This tutorial will help you understand how it works, and how to correctly utlize it!
NVIDIA drivers come with telemetry, but I've done it possible so that you can remove it from the installer, which requries WinRAR or 7-Zip in order to extract the self-extracting archive, which if used will only extract the core GPU drivers. (no Physics, HD Audio, Geforce Experience, 3D drivers, etc).
- Use TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker to download the latest driver, if you already run the latest you must run the application with the
--force-dl
argument which will force a prompt telling you that you're outdated.
Note: if you don't have the minimal install feature enabled yet, you must go to %localappdata%\Hawaii_Beach\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker
,
open app.config
with a text editor and set the value of Minimal install
to true
- Download Display Driver Uninstaller (v17.0.8.7)
- Extract the software
- Run it, and ignore the warning message
- Select
NVIDIA
to the right, if needed - Press on the button that says
Clean and do NOT restart
- Go to the folder where you saved the graphics drivers, and run
setup.exe
(do NOT run the long-named driver file!)
Now you should be clean from any 'bloatware' and bullshit that comes with the graphics drivers come with these days. If you're using a laptop then you should not use this feature as it doesn't install Optimus (which switches from the IGP to the GPU when running games)