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update now or stay on an old studio branch? the eternal nvidia question

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Accepted solution by Rhea Ekström — my approach: make a restore point, download the previous driver package sooo its ready, then try teh new one. if anything misbehaves, DDU…
  1. Elena Park
    @elena.park64

    help!! im on an old studio branch and everything works for competitive gaming. now NVIDIA has GeForce Security Update Driver 475.06 out and the app keeps nagging me. part of me wants the fixes, part of me remembers the last time an update gave me black screens for a week. has anyone been running it for a while? any issues worth knowing before i click install? lmao i would love a short, honest answer from ppl who have actually used it for a few weeks. what am i doing wrong??

    rage

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  2. Lars Lund
    @byte_bench

    hmmm driver updates do sometimes include security fixes, so I wouldn't stay on a very old version forever. But waiting a week or two after release to see if a hotfix appears is perfectly reasonable.

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  4. Rhea Ekström
    @thread_loop873
    Accepted solution

    my approach: make a restore point, download the previous driver package sooo its ready, then try teh new one. if anything misbehaves, DDU and reinstall the old one. that makes updating a low-risk experiment.

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  5. Wren Wolfe
    @cron_pusher

    I update on day one and have very few issues. Most problems people report are leftovers from upgrading over old installs, not the driver itself.

    facepalm

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  6. Juno Mendes
    @jmendes

    try turning off the firmware first, fixed it for me lmao reading this at 2am instead of sleeping, no regrets

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  7. Elena Park
    @elena.park64
    in reply to @thread_loop873

    @thread_loop873 holy cow decided to wait two weeks, then updated with the previous package ready just in case. geForce Security Update Driver 475.06 has been fine so far. owe u a beer 🍺

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