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How do I "safely" keep my NVidia card up to date?

Log in to GeForce experience using your favourite spam email address, with info as true / alternative to true as you feel comfortable with. Now you can get driver updates, and need not be worried ...
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Dell suggests lowest of the low maximum RAM

According to the following post your model can accept 16 GB RAM: Can I insert one 8gb ram instead of two 4gb rams in my pc Dell Inspiron 620s which has two slots and a limit of 8gb on motherboard. You ...
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How to configure proxy settings in GeForce Experience?

No. Not even now. Every time I need to install something from Nvidia at work that requires network connectivity, I need to switch my dev rig from my work line to a different ISP entirely to avoid ...
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How can I horizontally flip/invert my monitor (not rotate)?

I had the same need for a content displayed within a browser, where I ended up using CSS tip to flip the element : transform: scaleX(-1); Not sure it applies to OP situation, but could help ...
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NVIDIA card not shown as device by `lspci | grep -i vga`

Use lspci -nn | grep '\[03' Reason is that for some video cards, they're not listed as a [0300] VGA compatible controller they could be: [0380] Display controller [0302] 3D controller
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NVIDIA X server settings is displaying empty window

I had the same problem. The reason was in the version of the nvidia-settings utility. I used https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers to install drivers. Run the command to list ...
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NVIDIA X server settings is displaying empty window

Running this command made the trick for me: sudo prime-select nvidia Source: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=294384
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Nvidia drivers (normal vs game ready)

As @Ramhound told me in the comments: Nvidia has introduce updated drivers, for new software releases, for years under the term "GameReady", the exact same driver they send to their partners ...
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Force an application to use Graphics Card?

Its not possible (least the way you want to do it), and its worth looking at the competition to understand why. Adobe's Photoshop (which I suppose is the gold standard for graphics editing software ...
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How can I horizontally flip/invert my monitor (not rotate)?

I know exactly what you are trying to achieve. I'm running a three display setup in Windows extended desktop mode where one of the displays is in a teleprompter and needs to be horizontally flipped (...
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How do I "safely" keep my NVidia card up to date?

I'm pretty sure you can use Steam itself to update your Video drivers. I don't know if it'll work with NVIDIA but I guess it's worth a try. Note here I'm using Linux and this option is not functional ...
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Disable Nvidia Control Panel from checking for updates

Nvidia creates a number of scheduled tasks. You can disable the task named NvDriverUpdateCheckDaily_{GUID} to disable the update checks. To do so: Run taskschd.msc to launch the scheduled task MMC ...
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Do I need to install cuda separately after installing the NVIDIA display driver?

Result in advance: Cuda needs to be installed in addition to the display driver unless you use conda with cudatoolkit or pip with cudatoolkit. Tensorflow and Pytorch need the CUDA system install if ...
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GeForce GTX 980 Ti reverts to single monitor on wake up

DisplayPort support in Windows is somewhat problematic. As it acts as a PNP device, powering it off may disconnect it from the computer as if it was removed and Windows may forget this device, until ...
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QEMU with GPU pass through won't start

You're close. Using both pci-stub and vfio-pci It's okay to use pci-stub to reserve a PCI device (like your GPU) to prevent the graphics driver from grabbing it, since the graphics driver (like ...
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Is it safe to update the GPU drivers on this laptop?

No big risk. If you have the Sony 259.57 driver at hand, you can try to install the latest nVidia-driver. If it doesn't work, you can go back to the Sony-driver (using safe mode if needed).
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Geforce experience shadowplay desktop capture is gone in version 3

Update: GeForce Experience 3.0 has an option for desktop capture, but you will still have to login: Open in-game overlay -> Settings -> Privacy Control -> Desktop capture https://...
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How can I uninstall old Nvidia drivers from DriverStore FileRepository?

Another method is to use Driver Store Explorer (RAPR). (Note - I have no affiliation with this product). This lists the drivers and lets you select ones to remove. I didn't try this personally, ...
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How do I "safely" keep my NVidia card up to date?

To automatically update? You're going to have to follow their restrictions however you can easily check the site yourself and download the newest driver. How often do you expect them to update the ...
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NVIDIA display driver, Windows 10: Install most recent GEFORCE GAME READY DRIVER in addition to most recent device manager update?

Yes, you should update to the latest driver. You could've installed it in the first place too. There was no need to install one from the CD, as you've updated it using Windows Update anyway. why is ...
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Dell suggests lowest of the low maximum RAM

I cannot discover a good reasons as to why this is so. Nonetheless, it is so. Multiple third-party sites indicate the maximum RAM is 8GB. You should not add more RAM than this unless you are willing ...
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Unreasonable laptop performance

i've seen this on lenovos. try upgrading the bios as a starter. If you have an SSD, make sure the bios is set to SSD to reflect it, and upgrade firmware for SSD
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How can I horizontally flip/invert my monitor (not rotate)?

Two thoughts. First, you can buy hardware that does this to a video image "en route" to the monitor. They use this for driving teleprompt/autocue systems. Sedcond, I know you said you were using ...
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Corrupted graphics, crashes, and noisy GPU fan after updating NVIDIA GeForce drivers to 364.xx

The 364.xx drivers are buggy. It's best to use version 362.00 until NVIDIA addresses these issues. WCCFtech has reported that many users are experiencing serious problems with the 364.72 drivers, ...
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Windows 10 laptop screen messed up after sleeping

I have the same laptop and started having the same problem recently. I was able to roll back the Intel HD driver to version 21.20.16.4727 (from 21.20.16.4735) which appears to have solved the problem. ...
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Windows 10 laptop screen messed up after sleeping

Edit: The same day I posted this, Intel provided a new driver branch (15.60) which also appears to solve the problem from the initial version, 15.60.0.4849. TL;DR - if you use a built-in Intel ...
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How to turn off update for NVidia Driver from NVIDIA Control Panel?

It did take me awhile to look through the menu bar, and I realize it isn't there. It's in Manage 3D Settings > Global Settings > Manage update... So uncheck this box then NVidia won't check for ...
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How to get rid of NVIDIA Settings?

The standard driver package from Nvidia includes the control panel. See if you still have Nvidia drivers in Device Manager > Display Adapters. If so, remove & restart to see if that clears the ...
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Getting BSODs when video card load is LOW

There seems to be a "cute" typical issue with hot-running GPUs due to thermal expansion - the balls of solder under the GPU chip are constantly expanding and shrinking, sometimes cracking. When GPU ...
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Screen occasionally flashes black

I ended up replacing the video card and it solved the issue, I guess it was faulty in some way. To whoever is reading this and is disappointed this ended up being the solution: sorry :-( hope you ...
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