NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 551.76 Discussion

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Please use this thread to discuss the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver version 551.76.

Game Ready for The Thaumaturge

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including The Thaumaturge. In addition, this driver supports the beta release of NVIDIA App, which unifies GeForce Experience and the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

  • The Talos Principle 2: Game stability issues when DLSS FG is enabled [4492121]

Fixed General Bugs

  • Using NVENC to encode videos may result in corrupted videos or error message on GeForce GTX 16xx GPUs [4511046]
  • Steamwebhelper.exe blocking notebook display mode switch [4536504]

Knows Issues

  • [Netflix] Display issues for videos when using Edge browser. Recommend using Windows Netflix application as workaround. [4388454]
  • GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series: PC may randomly freeze when Windows Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]
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Right now 551.61 is working very well with my i913900k/rtx4090 flying PCVR (Quest Pro and Vive Pro1) so I think I’ll give this one a miss, lol!

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agree with you and i don’t want geforce experience

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So install without gfexperience :stuck_out_tongue:

All good - stutter free.
i9 13900K, RTX 4090, DDR5 32GB @7200

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Installed WITH GeForce Experience - as always. No issues here.

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All good for me, installed with Geforce Experience and the Nvidia beta app.

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No problems with this driver, performing well.

Win 11 Pro: 23H2 latest updates installed
i911900K all cores @ 5.1Ghz
64Gb DDR4 3200
ROG-STRIX-RTX3080-O10G-GAMING

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Here is the cleanded driver version from Guru3D

Charles

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@TheAviator3506 If you use DDU in safe mod to uninstlall the previous driver, then do a custom clean install without geoforce experience, what is the advantage of using this? Thanks.

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  1. You remove any and all remnants of previous drivers and bloatware, thus maximising performance.
  2. You avoid installing unnecessary bloatware, thus maximising performance.
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@spatialpro So how is this any different using DDU in safe mode and avoiding installing geoforce experience? Kind hard to believe there would be any performance differences imho.

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I’m not at all sure that removing all traces of prior drivers will “maximize” performance. I’d bet that it almost never does. What it does do is lessen to about zero the chance of something in an older driver interfering with the function of the new one. However, the team at Nvidia has had 25 years to perfect their setup programs for new drivers, so I think that kind of problem is almost never encountered, which is why I use DDU only about every 4th or 5th time that I upgrade.

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Ya, in theory, DDU isn’t 100% necessary everytime you update your nvidia drivers. Nvidia support only recommend using it if you encounter problems with a new driver.

I used to only use this when I found problems and/or with major series updates. However, after finding I often needed to do this I’ve just done it all the time over the last year. It only takes a few minutes to do and I haven’t seen any downside in doing so. It is optional, so up to you if and when you want to use it imho.

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Hello, sorry I have been away on holiday. DDU is recommended for drivers which you are having problems with. Always create a restore point before using it. Some people use it every time they uninstall a driver, I don’t think this is officially recommended practice.

Charles.