Tuesday, August 20th 2019
NVIDIA 436.02 Installer Buggy, Always Installs GeForce Experience, No GDPR Consent
NVIDIA today released its GeForce 436.02 WHQL Gamescom Special graphics drivers. You can read all about them here. The installer of these drivers appears to have a major bug that forces the installation of GeForce Experience without obtaining GDPR-compliant consent from the user. With the ratification of GDPR, NVIDIA driver installers present a selection screen right at the start of the installation, which lets users opt to install GeForce Experience (and give their GDPR consent in doing so), but a second option lets users decline GDPR consent, forcing the installer to install GeForce drivers without GeForce Experience. A bug with the installer of GeForce 436.02 WHQL disregards the user's choice at this screen, and installs GeForce Experience without the GDPR-mandated user-consent.
Making matters far worse is the fact that you cannot deselect GeForce Experience from the list of components in the Custom Install screen. The Custom Install list lets you make the installer skip installation of optional components that are otherwise installed by default in Express Install (GeForce Experience features in this list only if a user gives GDPR consent in the previous screen). We're hoping that this is a simple installer bug by NVIDIA, because anything worse would put the company in violation of EU privacy laws. We at TechPowerUp are in the final stages of developing a free utility that lets users take complete control over their NVIDIA graphics driver installation, called NVCleanstall. Using this software you may skip lot more optional components than what the NVIDIA Installer allows, such as Telemetry. Grab a beta version of NVCleanstall from here.Update 16:27 UTC: NVIDIA has removed the 436.02 drivers from their website, and confirmed that this is a bug.
Update Aug 21st: The 436.02 drivers are available again, and the GeForce Experience install problem is fixed. Look for the suffix "-rp" in the file name to identify the fixed version.
Making matters far worse is the fact that you cannot deselect GeForce Experience from the list of components in the Custom Install screen. The Custom Install list lets you make the installer skip installation of optional components that are otherwise installed by default in Express Install (GeForce Experience features in this list only if a user gives GDPR consent in the previous screen). We're hoping that this is a simple installer bug by NVIDIA, because anything worse would put the company in violation of EU privacy laws. We at TechPowerUp are in the final stages of developing a free utility that lets users take complete control over their NVIDIA graphics driver installation, called NVCleanstall. Using this software you may skip lot more optional components than what the NVIDIA Installer allows, such as Telemetry. Grab a beta version of NVCleanstall from here.Update 16:27 UTC: NVIDIA has removed the 436.02 drivers from their website, and confirmed that this is a bug.
Update Aug 21st: The 436.02 drivers are available again, and the GeForce Experience install problem is fixed. Look for the suffix "-rp" in the file name to identify the fixed version.
40 Comments on NVIDIA 436.02 Installer Buggy, Always Installs GeForce Experience, No GDPR Consent
Seriously on one hand, EU screams about protection of privacy. On the other hand it moves to censor as much as it can regarding information. So weird.
The saying goes, if it's not broke, don't fix it.
I just uninstalled it as well. Yes they do... and with good reason. Both camps have had issues.
Now run along and play! :)
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nvidia-patches-high-severity-flaws-in-windows-gpu-display-driver/
threatpost.com/driver-disaster-over-40-signed-drivers-cant-pass-security-muster/147199/
Maybe you're confusing 'weird' with 'difficult'?
!Not !haha check Nvidia.
protecting privacy, aka, not showing others about your stuff aka censoring that information.
IF you can say at all those 2 are linked in anyway, then it seems perfectly logical to me.
is what you get if you try to download it from Nvidia now...
EDIT : @TheLostSwede beat me to it :D