Feature Request: Deleting _NvGSTPlugin.dll after driver install.

HumanBing · Mar 6, 2023

It seems the recent CPU usage spikes with 531.18 are caused by _NvGSTPlugin.dll (Nvidia Game Session Telemetry Plugin), people on Reddit have been recommending outright deleting it. It is possible to do so without resigning the driver, apparently nothing else breaks?

Example:

m_w_h comments on Game Ready Driver 531.18 FAQ/Discussion (reddit.com)

For your consideration. Thanks a lot for developing NVCleanstall, using this tool nowadays is legit self-defense!

natr0n · Mar 6, 2023

You can manually delete it. I just did.

cbb · Mar 6, 2023

imho all telemetry should be an explicit manual opt in, and there needs to be a sys level pref/control. Then again, MS is just now getting around to rgb (which I don't use anyway, but has taken over the h/w market...rgb ram? rly??) control, so I'm not holding my breath. I try to disable/delete any bloat I can find, but missed this one. I wonder how many other bits of crap I haven't found? (obvious answer: lots)

Space Lynx · Mar 7, 2023

cbb said:
imho all telemetry should be an explicit manual opt in, and there needs to be a sys level pref/control. Then again, MS is just now getting around to rgb (which I don't use anyway, but has taken over the h/w market...rgb ram? rly??) control, so I'm not holding my breath. I try to disable/delete any bloat I can find, but missed this one. I wonder how many other bits of crap I haven't found? (obvious answer: lots)

I'm surprised this wasn't included with GDPR for Euro Countries. I know when I went to install Samsung Magician software in Ireland, it prompted me and asked if I was in the EU, and it installed a non-telemetry based variant. In USA I don't recall getting that prompt.

Maybe Nvidia technically isn't complying with GDPR? Otherwise, we would all be able to get something similar.

Mussels · Mar 8, 2023

cbb said:
imho all telemetry should be an explicit manual opt in, and there needs to be a sys level pref/control. Then again, MS is just now getting around to rgb (which I don't use anyway, but has taken over the h/w market...rgb ram? rly??) control, so I'm not holding my breath. I try to disable/delete any bloat I can find, but missed this one. I wonder how many other bits of crap I haven't found? (obvious answer: lots)

opt-in makes it useless for things like crash reports, since they'd get no reports at all from 99% of the userbase who do express installs

An opt-out should be mandatory - i've used games for overclock testing and they've tried reporting the crashes to the developer, i'm sure they'd love 50 reports of GPU driver crashes they have nothing to do with

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Feature Request: Deleting _NvGSTPlugin.dll after driver install.

HumanBing

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