NVidia Driver Questions After Windows 10 Upgrades On Two Desktops
I upgraded two desktops to Windows 10 ten days ago. The newer one has a GTX 660 card. I updated the graphics driver to 368.22. I just noticed that it was rolled back to 353.82 even though I told Windows not to update drivers. My older desktop has GTX 260 card. When I searched for a driver for it the highest available driver was 341.95 which GeForce Experience tells me is the latest. I went through the steps to disable driver updates only to find that the driver was rolled back to a standard windows 10 driver thus forcing me to reinstall 341.95. Two questions: 1) How do I prevent Windows 10 from messing with my NVidia driver choices? 2) Why is 341.95 the highest driver for my older desktop rather than 368.22?
I upgraded two desktops to Windows 10 ten days ago. The newer one has a GTX 660 card. I updated the graphics driver to 368.22. I just noticed that it was rolled back to 353.82 even though I told Windows not to update drivers. My older desktop has GTX 260 card. When I searched for a driver for it the highest available driver was 341.95 which GeForce Experience tells me is the latest. I went through the steps to disable driver updates only to find that the driver was rolled back to a standard windows 10 driver thus forcing me to reinstall 341.95. Two questions: 1) How do I prevent Windows 10 from messing with my NVidia driver choices? 2) Why is 341.95 the highest driver for my older desktop rather than 368.22?

#1
Posted 06/14/2016 01:12 AM   
[quote]1) How do I prevent Windows 10 from messing with my NVidia driver choices?[/quote] Permanently? Purchase the retail "Professional" version. Windows 10 is still in it's "Beta" phase, thus driver and system updates are required (forced). This is the cost of the "free" upgrade; you are testing the OS for them. [quote]2) Why is 341.95 the highest driver for my older desktop rather than 368.22?[/quote] Because the 260 is EOL (End of life) and was set to such as of 4/2014 thus no further support/ drivers is given for this device. Technically; it's not even Win10 compatible. Nvidia was nice enough to give users of these dated cards/chips a driver "modification" (driver pack 340.xx-341.xx are all the same with "slight" OS mods) to give them time to purchase a proper upgraded. EOL status includes the 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 100, 200, 300, and some lower-end 400-series Nvidia graphics cards. Also... Wrong forum section. This post has nothing to do with Nvidia's 3D Vision technology.
1) How do I prevent Windows 10 from messing with my NVidia driver choices?
Permanently? Purchase the retail "Professional" version. Windows 10 is still in it's "Beta" phase, thus driver and system updates are required (forced). This is the cost of the "free" upgrade; you are testing the OS for them.

2) Why is 341.95 the highest driver for my older desktop rather than 368.22?
Because the 260 is EOL (End of life) and was set to such as of 4/2014 thus no further support/ drivers is given for this device. Technically; it's not even Win10 compatible. Nvidia was nice enough to give users of these dated cards/chips a driver "modification" (driver pack 340.xx-341.xx are all the same with "slight" OS mods) to give them time to purchase a proper upgraded.

EOL status includes the 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 100, 200, 300, and some lower-end 400-series Nvidia graphics cards.


Also...
Wrong forum section. This post has nothing to do with Nvidia's 3D Vision technology.

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Posted 06/14/2016 02:46 AM   
Thanks for the response MrInfinit3. Didn't realize my old card was at end of life. That explains the lower driver number for that computer. Ironically my older PC had Windows 7 Ultimate, so it upgraded to Windows 10 Pro yet my driver was still rolled back even though it was set to not allow driver updates. Microsoft apparently does not abide by that setting. I've now set it to defer updates. I hear you about wrong forum section, however my concern was related to being able to optimally use 3D Vision on both machines. My wife uses the older PC and enjoys being able to view the many 3D pictures I take with my FujiFilm FinePix Real 3D digital camera. I love 3D gaming on my newer machine. Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the response MrInfinit3. Didn't realize my old card was at end of life. That explains the lower driver number for that computer. Ironically my older PC had Windows 7 Ultimate, so it upgraded to Windows 10 Pro yet my driver was still rolled back even though it was set to not allow driver updates. Microsoft apparently does not abide by that setting. I've now set it to defer updates. I hear you about wrong forum section, however my concern was related to being able to optimally use 3D Vision on both machines. My wife uses the older PC and enjoys being able to view the many 3D pictures I take with my FujiFilm FinePix Real 3D digital camera. I love 3D gaming on my newer machine. Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated.

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Posted 06/14/2016 05:20 PM   
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