Debloating NVIDIA drivers (Found a very good method)

I thought I would put down a step by step guide following the steps outlined on the YouTube video, might help some people.

I personally found that my PC is more responsive using the debloated drivers vs the standard Nvidia one, and also seems a faster load into windows too.

I have written down the steps he provides on the video as follows :-

Use TCPview to show the the processes running in the background and packets of information that are sent from your PC when using the default Nvidia driver install.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/tcpview

Download and run DDU Display driver uninstaller, remove all the drivers for Nvidia using this program.
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Now run NVCleanstall,
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstall/

Pick install best driver for hardware or manually select the version you want.
Press next

Pick the components you want to install from the list, I personally pick display driver, PhysX and HD Audio via HDMI.

Press next

It will then download only the components needed and then it will make a new Nvidia driver package ready to install.

Pick the installation tweaks you want to the package, I pick disable telemetry, perform clean install and install Nvidia control panel.

Press install To install the debloated Nvidia driver or show in folder if you want to install it later or if you want to cut and paste the folder somewhere else.

And after install restart PC.

Now Use TCPview to show the the processes running in the background and packets of information that are sent from your PC when using now debloated Nvidia driver install.

I found it removed all processes running from Nvidia, and my PC runs better without them.
 
No because everything works great with all the bloat. I even have Geforce experience running 100% of the time.
 
Ravens Nest said:
Yes that looks like the same end result, I didn't know about that post.
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I just wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing anything. The “pre-stripped” seemed the same, and less work…and to be honest, I’m all about ‘less work’ these days lol.
 
KAC said:
No because everything works great with all the bloat. I even have Geforce experience running 100% of the time.
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That's OK that you like all the extra telemetry and bullshit like GFE that adds latency and takes CPU cycles.. some of us don't.
 
Lazy8s said:
I just wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing anything. The “pre-stripped” seemed the same, and less work…and to be honest, I’m all about ‘less work’ these days lol.
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lol I understand, and thanks for the link much easier than the way I found.

Nunz said:
That's OK that you like all the extra telemetry and bullshit like GFE that adds latency and takes CPU cycles.. some of us don't.
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Yes exactly :), that's why I posted on here to help people with that using the debloated drivers. :up:


I've just put ghost spectre on my daughters PC, loads into windows very fast 2 seconds to boot maybe.. and very responsive.
(Also from videos online the FPS is mostly the same until you look closely and the minimum FPS are much much higher than on a standard install of windows.)

Anything to squeeze more performance out of an old PC, some people cant afford new tech anymore sadly :(
 
Do you have any benchmark comparisons that demonstrate doing this improves something? Like performance of CPU or GPU or memory bandwidth?
 
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