Thursday, July 9th 2020

TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.7.0 Released with Advanced Driver Support Modding Capabilities

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of NVCleanstall, our lightweight utility that lets you heavily customize your NVIDIA GeForce software installation, letting you skip many more components that NVIDIA's installer brings. Version 1.7.0 introduces the ability to mod the drivers to add support for additional graphics devices. This should come particularly handy when trying to install the latest drivers on notebooks without official support. NVCleanstall can now tell if its being run on a notebook (instead of a desktop), and suggest the most appropriate driver. You may choose to display all available driver versions, overriding your hardware, for example to create deployment packages for other machines. An experimental option to disable driver telemetry was also added. Grab NVCleanstall from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.7.0
The change-log follows.

  • Added detection for notebooks to suggest the most appropriate driver
  • Added ability to mod INF file to support additional graphics devices, like notebooks without official drivers
  • Added experimental option to disable driver telemetry
  • Added "show all versions" checkbox to override hardware detection
  • Fixed GFE showing up as selectable component, even though it was removed in a previous run
  • Fixed Display.nView / Quadro View not getting detected properly
  • Fixed unknown packages not getting installed, even when selected
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33 Comments on TechPowerUp NVCleanstall 1.7.0 Released with Advanced Driver Support Modding Capabilities

#26
sam_86314
Naito@W1zzard Just a quick one - I'm using NVCleanstall on my laptop and it does correctly identify that it is indeed a mobile GPU however, on the Select Components To Install page, when I click the Recommended option, it does not select the Optimus component. Is this by design? Generally, I like to install Optimus when possible, but is it not recommended or required?

Thanks for this great program!
I think in general, the program should have Optimus be enabled by default for laptops.
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#27
W1zzard
Naitoit does not select the Optimus component. Is this by design?
This is an oversight indeed, great suggestion, will fix for next version
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#28
Naito
W1zzardThis is an oversight indeed, great suggestion, will fix for next version
Thanks W1zzard! Much appreciated :peace:
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#29
fluffi444
@W1zzard
Could you please explain what this Driver installation "NVCleanstall Driver Modding Authority" is doing? Saw this the first time with vers. 1.7 during Driver installation.
Actually it should be clear that it has something to do with new modding feature - But maybe some words from the Master could bring more light into the darkness?!
Many thanks for this outstanding tool!
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#30
W1zzard
fluffi444@W1zzard
Could you please explain what this Driver installation "NVCleanstall Driver Modding Authority" is doing? Saw this the first time with vers. 1.7 during Driver installation.
Actually it should be clear that it has something to do with new modding feature - But maybe some words from the Master could bring more light into the darkness?!
Many thanks for this outstanding tool!
Certain operations on the driver break the digital signature, instead of asking you to manually disable driver signature verification, NVCleanstall generates a certificiate on your machine, installs it and signs the driver with it
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#31
Coldblackice
@W1zzard
Are there any silent install switches for NVCleanstall (and any other install switches)?
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#33
Chaython
It gave an error that it can't sign the driver.

It was because the sign tool is a temporary exe that created another firewall entry.

Should prompt for firewall[add a "no connection" error on the sign tool and prompt for retry], or wrap the connection through the original exe.
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