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by Asooka 3407 days ago
Hear hear. Can they also please be less than 100megs in size? I think nVidia's clock in at 300 right now. I just want the driver and recording/streaming software. Maybe you could open up the required api to write a third party Shadow Play...
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Yeah, the NV mobile driver clocks in at 292 MB (W7 x64) right now.

One thing that certainly blows up the size is that the NV driver installer bundles support for everything from the old NV 8600M - which IIRC was released in 2007.

If there's one thing I certainly can't whine about in times where phones carry less than 2 years updateability, then it is that NVidia still provides up-to-date drivers for a GPU chipset nearing a decade of life time.

I agree, but I recently bought a gtx1060, which meant I had to update to the latest drivers, which unfortunately don't support the other card I have in that machine (I forget what model, it's either a gt520 or a gt210). I only wanted to use that other card to connect extra monitors.

You can't run two Nvidia cards off different driver versions.

Anyway, the gtx1060 supports four monitors by itself which is enough but I needed to buy some cables.

Nvidia drivers are super bloated though.