NVIDIA Releases Game Ready 496.13 WHQL GeForce Graphics Driver, Support Removed for Windows 8.1/8/7 & Kepler

c2DDragon · Oct 12, 2021

BSim500 said:
830MB (496.13, W11) vs 701MB (472.12, W10) vs 608MB (472.12, W7). LOL. Where?...

Confirmed. It used to be the case where you could download a normal driver instead of a DCH simply by deleting -dch from the URL, ie, turn...

desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe into
desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-whql.exe

but this no longer works. On the other hand, I had zero intention of "upgrading" to W11 anyway and play few new AAA games, so nothing of value is lost by staying on v472.12 for quite a while yet (which is supported for security updates through to 2024).

I am trying those drivers on Windows 10 right now.
The cool feature added is the Shader Cache Size control :

Sorry, I was lazy to change the language in english for the screenshot x)

"The shadow (or shader) compilation for applications can be ignored if the result of this compilation is in the cache. This will reduce stutters and start-up time of applications."

So far it seems it's working, lowering little loadings in AC: Valhalla.

BSim500 · Oct 12, 2021

8bitgamer757 said:
I understand they are maxwell and not kepler cards, but why would nvidia continue supporting the GTX 750 and 750ti? Wouldnt it make more sense to just drop the 6 and 700 lines as a whole? i feel like it would be confusing for people who don't know alot about these cards and download the wrong drivers and be frustrated when it doesnt work or dont have the latest features.

Because a lot of people still use them. In fact as many people still use the 750Ti as those using the RTX 3060, GTX 1650 Super and GTX 1080Ti at time of writing.

Akira1364 · Oct 12, 2021

Is anything weird likely to happen if I just use the installer in "Express" mode the same way I did for the non-DCH version, while coming directly from a non-DCH version?

W1zzard · Oct 12, 2021

Akira1364 said:
Is anything weird likely to happen if I just use the installer in "Express" mode the same way I did for the non-DCH version, while coming directly from a non-DCH version?

It should work perfectly fine, let us know how it goes

thesmokingman · Oct 12, 2021

The driver size is getting insano.

johnspack · Oct 12, 2021

Wow that's cruel. I'm still supporting a few machines out there running 8.1. My last bare metal install of windows is 8.1, I won't go further.
Thankfully wine supports dx12 and vulkan gaming. It will take time, but win11 will look less advantageous.
Oh well.

P4-630 · Oct 12, 2021

thesmokingman said:
The driver size is getting insano.

I remember downloading ATi drivers in the past @ ~60 MB....

Axaion · Oct 12, 2021

Well, this sucks.

lexluthermiester · Oct 13, 2021

W1zzard said:
Use NVCleanstall, it can install the UWP control panel without connecting to the store

R-T-B said:
Just use nvcleanstall.

I find it greatly irritating that such an effort needs to exist. Though I think many of us are grateful for your work W1zzard! I certainly am.

natr0n · Oct 13, 2021

Main system is 8.1. =(

timta2 · Oct 13, 2021

I guess it's almost time to fill more landfills with more Nvidia planned obsolescence.

lexluthermiester · Oct 13, 2021

natr0n said:
Main system is 8.1. =(

Time to upgrade to 11.

Akira1364 · Oct 13, 2021

W1zzard said:
It should work perfectly fine, let us know how it goes

Ended up going fine. Worth noting that I did not need to go to the Windows Store to get the Nvidia Control Panel... it just automatically triggered an installer for it that was presumably bundled directly with the driver, the first time I clicked on the Nvidia Control Panel icon after doing the driver updated.

Overall, I'd say I see no reason to avoid switching to this from a non-DCH driver. Has no meaningful differences in terms of the enduser experience, as far as I can tell.

arni-gx · Oct 13, 2021

W1zzard said:
Use NVCleanstall, it can install the UWP control panel without connecting to the store

so, its true then, that there is no nvidia control panel in geforce WHQL DCH version ??

P4-630 · Oct 13, 2021

arni-gx said:
so, its true then, that there is no nvidia control panel in geforce WHQL DCH version ??

It will automatically download the control panel from the M$ store, I didn't even notice and also I'm not signed in with M$ acccount.
No issues here.

arni-gx · Oct 13, 2021

P4-630 said:
It will automatically download the control panel from the M$ store, I didn't even notice and also I'm not signed in with M$ acccount.
No issues here.

why nvidia not included NVCP with their WHQL DCH version ??

P4-630 · Oct 13, 2021

arni-gx said:
why nvidia not included NVCP with their WHQL DCH version ??

Per Microsoft requirements, the NVIDIA Control Panel is no longer included in the driver package and is instead distributed exclusively through the Microsoft Store and seamlessly installed following the completion of the NVIDIA driver installation.

NVIDIA Support

nvidia.custhelp.com

camb · Oct 14, 2021

Just tried installing the driver and my computer kept restarting halfway through the install.

Ended up using DDU to remove everything and that seemed to take care of the problem.

akirahdk · Oct 14, 2021

Nvidia control pannel dont save my setting on DCH but works fine on standard i already send a bug report and was in live chat reporting this bug still they launch the drivers with same bug .... i did create a shortcut for NCP and put on admin rights as workaround but this is anoying

Mussels · Oct 14, 2021

This driver breaks ghost recon: breakpoint

Terrain becomes a flicerking square filled mess that slowly stabilises, until you move again

potato screenshot from potato facebook messenger video

pf100 · Oct 18, 2021

I installed 496.13 yesterday with nvcleanstall and it had control panel and everything seemed okay until the driver crashed twice in about an hour when it never did that with previous versions. I DDU'd back to 472.12 standard driver using nvcleanstall and am just going to stay there for a while until at least the next driver and try again. I hope something isn't broken with the newest dch drivers with nvcleanstall and that somehow it's just me.

Slizzo · Oct 18, 2021

496.13 was giving me some really strange behavior, as in GPU usage and game performance would drop to the floor any time mouse input was detected by the system. As in, framerates are mostly good until I try to use the mouse. Then usage and framerate drop to near 0. Stop moving mouse and it jumps back up again.

Can move with keyboard without issue.

Rolled back to 472.12, issue resolved. Did a few DDU installs in between to test. Initially I had installed 496.13 (which is DCH) over my standard 472.12, though the issues were due to that, so I DDU'd and installed 496.13 fresh. Nope same issue. DDU and go back to 472.12, and everything is fine.

I'm on Win 11, been running insider preview since early Sept, so same build as shipping. Everything up to date.

lexluthermiester · Oct 19, 2021

Slizzo said:
496.13 was giving me some really strange behavior, as in GPU usage and game performance would drop to the floor any time mouse input was detected by the system. As in, framerates are mostly good until I try to use the mouse. Then usage and framerate drop to near 0. Stop moving mouse and it jumps back up again.

Can move with keyboard without issue.

Rolled back to 472.12, issue resolved. Did a few DDU installs in between to test. Initially I had installed 496.13 (which is DCH) over my standard 472.12, though the issues were due to that, so I DDU'd and installed 496.13 fresh. Nope same issue. DDU and go back to 472.12, and everything is fine.

I'm on Win 11, been running insider preview since early Sept, so same build as shipping. Everything up to date.

That is a weird glitch. Have you reported it to NVidia?

arni-gx · Oct 19, 2021

pf100 said:
I installed 496.13 yesterday with nvcleanstall and it had control panel and everything seemed okay until the driver crashed twice in about an hour when it never did that with previous versions. I DDU'd back to 472.12 standard driver using nvcleanstall and am just going to stay there for a while until at least the next driver and try again. I hope something isn't broken with the newest dch drivers with nvcleanstall and that somehow it's just me.

so, what is your detail PC system ?? your OS ??

pf100 · Oct 19, 2021

arni-gx said:
so, what is your detail PC system ?? your OS ??

MSI 3060 ti gaming x trio, Ryzen 5 3600, MSI x570 Gaming Plus motherboard, 32 GB DDR4 3600, Windows 11 Enterprise RTM 22000.282 (manually updated to .282 by installing KB5006746 with corresponding service stack update so that I now have the Ryzen L3 fix as detailed in a howto here).

Also, while I'm replying, I'd like to mention that since I posted yesterday that I DDU'd back to 472.12 (and installed using nvcleanstall), I've played some games for a few hours since then and it's still rock solid stable with 472.12. No problems at all. It appears that there may be something wrong with 496.13.

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