Disabling automatic driver updates for GeForce on Win 10 Home

cucker tarlson · Nov 19, 2017

I've run into a problem which I already solved but I wanna ask around to make sure this doesn't happen again.

My GTX 1080 was running perfectly fine on 385.69 drivers, butter smooth for months both on Win 10 Home and 8.1 before. Today I noticed quite a lot of stutter in ME:Andromeda, after a while I saw my driver version was 388.13 which aere notorious for stuttering. The system must've updated the driver automatically. I uninstalled 388.13 and my system reverted back to 385.69 automatically. Everythings run smooth once again.

My question is: how do I stop this from happening again ? I'm okay with automatic updates for the system, chipset,RST and the like but GPU drivers I'd like to always install manually. I did what I found in this article

http://www.itprotoday.com/windows-server/stop-automatic-driver-updates-windows-10

but is this going to do what I'm asking for ? I'm a very inexperienced Win 10 user, I've only been on the new system for a month or two. Need advice.

RejZoR · Nov 19, 2017

You can't. I've tried literally everything that was said online to disable auto updating and Windows 8.x and 10 have a mind of its own. I had to test how far back some bug was appearing and Windows kept overriding my older drivers with some newer ones. It's fucking idiotic. Only way is to disconnect PC from internet.

P4-630 · Nov 19, 2017

RejZoR said:
and Windows 8.x

I have windows 8.1 on my desktop and have set updates to manual.
I can tell you that windows 8.1 does not download/install anything if you have set it to manual.

cucker tarlson · Nov 19, 2017

P4-630 said:
I have windows 8.1 on my desktop and have set updates to manual.
I can tell you that windows 8.1 does not download/install anything if you have set it to manual.

How is that relevant to my question ?

P4-630 · Nov 19, 2017

cucker tarlson said:
How is that relevant to my question ?

I was quoting RejZor as you could see...

95Viper · Nov 19, 2017

How to Prevent Windows from Automatically Updating Specific Drivers

cucker tarlson · Nov 19, 2017

P4-630 said:
I was quoting RejZor as you could see...

Yes, I don't know what he is on to, I used 8.1 for years (up till October this year) and it never, never did automatic driver updates. I don't know what's wrong with this guy, he's always bitching so much about stuff, and often just making it up. can't even write a senetence without cursing something.

anyway, if there's no easy way to do that on win 10 then I'll just have to remebmer to check my driver version if my games show any malfunctioning.

also, the method I used was this

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-automatic-driver-downloads-on-windows-10

I copied a wrong link in my OP.

RejZoR · Nov 19, 2017

P4-630 said:
I have windows 8.1 on my desktop and have set updates to manual.
I can tell you that windows 8.1 does not download/install anything if you have set it to manual.

I've tried it on Win8.x as well like all the endless tutorials said online and it kept on overriding my Radeon drivers on laptop to latest version. Luckily Win10 works right with the drivers it delivers...

R-T-B · Nov 19, 2017

Registry edit.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SOFTWARE –> Microsoft –> Windows –> CurrentVersion –> DriverSearching -> SearchOrderConfig

Set to 0.

This works on my machines. Granted, they are all pro or enterprise, but try it anyways.

cucker tarlson · Nov 19, 2017

R-T-B said:
Registry edit.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SOFTWARE –> Microsoft –> Windows –> CurrentVersion –> DriverSearching -> SearchOrderConfig

Set to 0.

This works on my machines. Granted, they are all pro or enterprise, but try it anyways.

Thanks. I'll try if the problem reoccurs, now I'll leave it as is and see what happens.

Also, has anyone had any experience with 388.31 ? I think 388.13 was just a bad driver, I saw people reported stutter a lot. When I was on win 8.1 I used to update my drivers as soon as any new ones came out, and never had any issues. Only reason I didn't do that with 388.13 was that I saw people complain.

update:

I restarted my system and saw 388.13 again. What a turd this win 10 is.
Installing 388.31, hopefully this will fix it for now.

R-T-B · Nov 19, 2017

31 is running fine for me, but the only real NVIDIA specific feature I use is fast vsync.

rtwjunkie · Nov 19, 2017

95Viper said:
How to Prevent Windows from Automatically Updating Specific Drivers

This is a good solution on Pro, where you have Group Policy Editor, but not sure if it will work on Home like Cucker has.

@cucker tarlson go to Mussels signature. In there he has a link to the WUMT (Windows Update Management Tool). I use it to download updates on my own, and hide ones i dont want. Yes, you can even hide driver updates, only doing them on your schedule.

cucker tarlson · Nov 19, 2017

388.31 is running very smoothly for me, along with nvidia control panel which I think was never that snappy as it is now. 388.13 was a mess, game stutter + nvcp was very unresponsive.

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