Monday, October 14th 2019

TechPowerUp Announces NVCleanstall - Customize Your NVIDIA Driver Installation

TechPowerUp today announced NVCleanstall, its latest original software designed to give PC enthusiasts and gamers unparalleled control over the installation of NVIDIA GeForce software. Besides the actual driver for your GeForce graphics processor, NVIDIA GeForce software includes close to a dozen optional components, not all of which can be opted out of in the "Custom" installation screen of NVIDIA's installer. Among these are Telemetry, which regularly sends your usage data to NVIDIA, and drivers for stereoscopic 3D, Shield, etc. These components may not all be useless or harmful, but aren't strictly required for your GPU to work and render graphics like it should. NVIDIA treats many of these software components as an extension of the product itself.

NVCleanstall has a clean user interface that begins with a screen that lets you choose the software version you want. It can either fetch the latest software from the Internet for you, or lets you select a downloaded NVIDIA GeForce software package (installer binary) from your PC, or lets you fetch a specific driver version you want from the Internet. You are then presented with an exhaustive list of components to install, categorized under the main components, and GeForce Experience. You can also select from our curated presets if you're not sure. In the following page, the app prepares your installation. In this screen, you can select from useful additional tweaks, including disabling the installer's own telemetry, scripting an unattended install, and pre-checking the "clean install" option in the NVIDIA driver installer. After that, NVCleanstall spawns the NVIDIA installer to install what you selected in NVCleanstall, or take you to the customized driver files. NVCleanstall has been put through months of rigorous testing from our community of PC enthusiasts. The app gives you not just greater control over your NVIDIA software, but also reduces the disk usage and memory footprint of your NVIDIA software.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.0.0
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34 Comments on TechPowerUp Announces NVCleanstall - Customize Your NVIDIA Driver Installation

#26
W1zzard
metalfiberDo i still need to use the DCH driver or can i use the regular driver?

I hate having to download the nvidia control panel from the Microsoft store.
If you have the DCH driver, you must install the DCH driver.

To get rid of DCH, try this:
www.techpowerup.com/250415/psa-nvidia-installer-cannot-continue-on-windows-october-2018-update-and-how-to-fix-it
potato580+hmm just wonder if this is normal or not, but why it took so long, it almost 5minutes waiting for aloading before installation begun
is this just me with my potato pc?! or ayone had to waiting for the 5minute aswell:kookoo:
This step really takes a long time .. same with the original NVIDIA installer
hckngrtfaktand for some odd reason it would always fail to install a generic "PCI Device" driver on my RTX 2080
Any chance that's the USB-C driver and you unselected it?
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#27
Doc Bean
Thank you, it looks really good.

Would it be possible to differentiate between the Game Ready Driver (GRD) and Studio Driver (SD)?

I have the Studio Driver installed, and this app offers to install the latest Game Ready Driver (the current Studio Driver release is 431.86 whereas the current Game Ready Driver is 436.48).
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#28
hckngrtfakt
W1zzardAny chance that's the USB-C driver and you unselected it?
I probably did accidentally but I recall using the "Install recommended" and not particularly unchecking any boxes. I should've taken a screen shot :shadedshu: great software tho, thank you for the reply :rockout:
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#29
W1zzard
hckngrtfaktI probably did accidentally but I recall using the "Install recommended" and not particularly unchecking any boxes. I should've taken a screen shot :shadedshu: great software tho, thank you for the reply :rockout:
Recommended does not include the usb c driver, because nobody I know of uses those ports anyway
Doc BeanThank you, it looks really good.

Would it be possible to differentiate between the Game Ready Driver (GRD) and Studio Driver (SD)?

I have the Studio Driver installed, and this app offers to install the latest Game Ready Driver (the current Studio Driver release is 431.86 whereas the current Game Ready Driver is 436.48).
I have no plans to add studio drivers at this time (for download) you should be able to point it to your installer file and it should work
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#30
Yttersta
Off the top, please add in an option for beta updates as well. They are great once in a while and can take quite long to full release. Great tool overall! It will drop so many steps from an update routine. Thank you for this.
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#31
katmai
Why after checking 'install best driver for my hardware' this tool propose me older Driver than this on Official Nvidia Driver Download Website?

I have Quadro K5000M in Dell Precision Laptop.
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#32
W1zzard
katmaiWhy after checking 'install best driver for my hardware' this tool propose me older Driver than this on Official Nvidia Driver Download Website?

I have Quadro K5000M in Dell Precision Laptop.
Which driver version does NVCleanstall recommend? Which one is on NV's site?
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#33
Doc Bean
W1zzardI have no plans to add studio drivers at this time (for download) you should be able to point it to your installer file and it should work
It would be great if you should decide to add it :)
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#34
katmai
W1zzardWhich driver version does NVCleanstall recommend? Which one is on NV's site?
NV Site: 426.32
NVC Recommend: 419.17

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