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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 398.82 "Game Ready" Drivers

W10 only forces NVIDIA drivers on users if GEFORCE Experience is not installed. With it, you can decline to an indeterminate amount of time (I haven’t reached that point yet).
Ah, I see. I don't use GFE, so I didn't know that.

what @rtwjunkie said. new drivers have a tendency to create problems either due to not being properly optimized or tested, so i try to avoid them unless there is no other option or a sufficient amount of people has tested them thus ensuring the minimal possibility of a problem arising.
So... how does waiting solve that problem? Because when you wait, other drivers will be released which, following your train of thought, are also poorly optimized and tested.
 
The writing is on the wall that nv is not giving Win7/8 enough love any more. Driver TDRs on Win7/8 have also crept in as the driver is bent to favor Win10, and hacks added to keep Win7/8 going. I gave up and actually moved to Win10. It would be best to revert to whatever the last driver was before the TDRs showed up a while back, and just stay there.

The reason I updated the driver is because in this driver sometimes when browsing the driver is stopped working for some reason although the occurrences has been reduced significantly on recent Firefox release. Looks like I'll just keep using this driver on my Windows 7 PC forever :shadedshu:
 
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