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Half And Half On One PC: One Driver Branch To Rule Them All?

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  1. Zane L.
    @zane_loose

    Mixed-use PC here: half and half. Can somenoe who has tried both branches share their experience?? Id love to hear whether it made a real difference for 3D modeling or whether its mostly markteing. I am not chasing benchmark numbers. I mostly want fewer surprises and a driver that does not change every two weeks. If u switched branches, did you notice anything at all, positive or negative? 😅 And would you switch back?

    15 tabs open and chrome ate all 32GB of ram again

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  2. Bea Vos
    @copperfox

    ok but have you had actual stability problems, or is this preventive?? ?

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  3. Nico
    @routernomad

    hmmm for me it was the cache 😅 swapped it and boom, fixed

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  4. Nico
    @routernomad

    dumb qusetion but how do i even check the fan curve. exact same thing happened to my moms pc last month ??

    thinking

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  6. Nico
    @routernomad

    ahh classic for me it was the default config. swapped it and boom, fixed lmk how it goes

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  7. Bea Vos
    @copperfox

    been there man exact same thing happened to my moms pc last month. any update on this? lmk how it goes

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  8. Zane L.
    @zane_loose
    in reply to @copperfox

    no real problems sooo far, it's preventive. I just don't want surprises during a project. hope thats enough info 😅

    it works on my machine™

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  9. Ash Reyes
    @lambdasage

    hmmm dumb question but how do i even check the extension

    thinking

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  10. Ash Reyes
    @lambdasage
    in reply to @lambdasage

    lol same thing happened to me check your creative app's system requirements page, some list a minimum driver version for GPU acceleration features... make suree whichever branch u pick meets that. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  11. Bea Vos
    @copperfox

    switching branches is easy: download the other pcakage from teh NVIDIA support page and install it with the clean install option (or DDU if u wanna be thorough) 🤦 your apps dont need reinstalling. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  12. Nico
    @routernomad

    @lambdasage what did u end up doing in the end ?

    thinking

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  14. Bea Vos
    @copperfox
    in reply to @copperfox

    im literally losing my mind here told my boss it would take 10 minutes. its been 20 minutes thx in advance!!

    nothing is more permanent than a temporary workaround

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  15. Nico
    @routernomad

    Don't hop branches every week. Pick one, note the version, and only change when something you need is fixed or added. Frequent switching makes troubleshooting harder. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  16. Ash Reyes
    @lambdasage
    in reply to @routernomad

    If plain office work with occasional games pays ur bills, the stable/studio branch is a sensible default. Games still run well on it; you just get new game optimizations a bit later.

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  18. Bea Vos
    @copperfox

    broadly: gaming branches ship faster with optimizations for new releases. studio/stable branches ship less often and focus on validation with creative apps 🔥 both run games and apps fine. the difference is cadence and test focus, not capability.

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  19. Nico
    @routernomad

    wait any update on this?. reading this at 2am instead of sleepnig, no regrets ??

    thinking

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