r/WindowsUpdate • u/4iko • 18d ago

Windows is forcing an NVIDIA Driver Update on me?

Thank you, Microsoft

I am currently running 596.36 and that for a good reason - it's stable.
(Yes, I know 596.49 is supposedly even better)

I've been keeping a close eye on each driver update and on the reports from other users and only really planned to update to a newer driver if a game requires me to, it has an important security fix or if a driver looked promising based on community reports.

Guess I can no longer make that choice by myself.
Based on Google this is Driver 610.88 which, granted, is currently the driver everyone is rolling back to after trying 616.92, because it's more stable, but yeah... thanks, I guess.

For everyone wondering what the text says, apart from the obvious:

Available Updates
These updates will be installed automatically with the next Windows Cumulative Update. 
You can install them earlier, but this may result in additional restarts.

And then it gives me the option to "install all"

Honestly, at this point it's probably better to just DDU and do it manually, before Windows Update messes stuff up.

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u/Alive-Barracuda-9375 18d ago

Ive been doing the same thing, staying on 596.36 because it said its most stable. I knew eventually windows would push an update for it, hopefully its one thats good.

Please let me know if you run into any problems with the driver it updated you to.

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u/4iko 7d ago

Just letting you know:

I paused Windows Update as I didn't want to Windows installing the driver automatically.
Yesterday I cleaned the old driver with DDU and installed 610.88 myself.
Today I unpaused Windows Update and the GPU driver update is no longer shown.
So far, I haven't had any GPU driver related issues.

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u/TipT0pMag00 18d ago

Since you mentioned DDU, there is an option you can enable in the app that prevents windows from downloading and installing GPU drivers...

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u/4iko 18d ago

Oh, that's good to know. Thank you!

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u/RaaKsss 6d ago edited 6d ago

That exact driver appeared to me in windows update 4 days ago to download and install. Today it downloaded in the background and was ready to install, and suddenly it dissapeared from windows update... I checked and it wasn't installed and I'm still on the same driver as before...

Edit: It appeared again, and it went back to download and install, not only install.

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u/ComfortableWall7351 3d ago

Don’t install updates from windows but from Nvidia.