is it really neccesery to update to newest nividia driver on a 3060ti ?

[lailaamell]

i feel like it jsut adding bloat and functions my card cant even use to begin with

[A&A]

No, but l recommend to throw a look at the release notes

[lailaamell]

i do and all is dlls 3.0 here and there wich doesnt support my card

[plat]

No, it's not always necessary BUT you might want to read the "Release highlights" and other info. Sometimes new drivers address vulnerabilities. Also, a new driver frequently patches technical issues in certain games that may pertain to you.

If you want to eliminate the bloat (PhysX, GeForce Experience, etc), go ahead and tick the box for a "custom" installation and then un-check all the stuff you don't want.

I always do this myself--just the driver, please. Thanks.

Edit: Just so you know, NV has stopped manufacturing the rtx 3060Ti. The last driver may be just that, the last one. If I do a search for the 3060Ti, I get "Game ready for the GeForce RTX 4060." Not sure what this means.

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/209129/en-us/

[A&A]

if you tweeked something in the settings, of course it will be ruined. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[_I_]

no
once the next gen are released, they quit optimizing for the previous gens
they begin adding new instruction sets for the newer cards and making them better

[Viking2121]

I don't, I updated to the launch drivers for Diablo 4, and Im still running them, I think im 2 versions old at this point.

I normally update my stuff if I run into issues, or if there is something good on the release notes, most of the time the drivers really are there for a new card.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by lailaamell95:

i do and all is dlls 3.0 here and there wich doesnt support my card

No; 522.25 or 532.03 is perfectly fine.

Get rid of GFE for one thing, or set it to "Check for updates only"

The release notes don't even tell you much, you have to go onto their forum to read the full run down on that sort of thing.

[Ghost Robertson]

Well i had to update my drivers because microsoft forced an nvidia update on me for some reason, My computers started doing strange things.

(just display stuff like the screen flickering).

[_I_]

disable windows driver updates, that often causes more problems

[Ghost Robertson]

Originally posted by _I_:

disable windows driver updates, that often causes more problems

How do you do that? I thought i tried to stop various updates before but failed.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

That's pretty strange since WU doesn't auto update NVIDIA GPU Drivers anymore.

[Ice Robertson]

Originally posted by _I_:

disable windows driver updates, that often causes more problems

Never mind i googled it and got the answer, it's stuff i don't really wanna touch.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

That's pretty strange since WU doesn't auto update NVIDIA GPU Drivers anymore.

I looked in the installed updates as the problem started and there was a Nvidia update from microsoft that day.

Edit--

This is what it says,

"Nvidia - display - 31.0.15.3179"

Look it up it's windows 10 home in your installed updates maybe.

Was on 5/07/23

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I have Win10/11 set to where auto driver updating is disabled.

It's a setting that's been in WinOS since WinXP; it's not new.

531.79 is, to say the least, a horrible driver.

It's also highly outdated.

Better off using DDU and wipe everything for NVIDIA.

Then reboot and install 532.03 or the latest 536.xx from NVIDIA.

Never use WU for that.

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

That's pretty strange since WU doesn't auto update NVIDIA GPU Drivers anymore.

Oh but it does. I had it to happen to me last week, and it was the only time it ever did it. Driver updates were set to disabled and it did it anyway. It's never done it before, so I was wondering why.

It pushed me from 516.xx to 531.xx, and worse it did it during a game (League of Legends, so it probably thought it was idle). Screen froze, unfroze and jumped forward, froze and then went Blank (display power on) and the Windows sound effect for device disconnect and reconnect played a few times. Game crashed, the client let me relaunch it, but something was... off. Frame pacing/response felt weird, and worse, my keyboard wasn't registering some key inputs at times. Checked event viewer expecting to see something in the critical or error portion and was surprised when I didn't, so I checked the logs by time and there it was, Windows update installed nVidia drivers. Surprised me.