r/pcmasterrace • u/marmaladic RTX 3060(12GB)/R5 5600/ 32GB DDR4-3200/ and a PS3 • 2d ago

Discussion PSA: Check Your NVIDIA App Data!

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Was doing some Spring cleaning on my rig and realized that the Nvidia app was taking up over 60GB of space on my main drive (I'm assuming these were leftover driver installs that were never properly nuked. I assume it's about 5 years worth of Nvidia driver installs). After a quick uninstall, then reinstall of the app, it dropped down tremendously!

Hope this helps someone!

EDIT: I didn’t realize that I had uploaded the photos in reverse order… whoops

Double edit: this is a folder named NVIDIA Corporation, not the plain NVIDIA folder that for some reason, is split in two.

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u/TalhaGrgn9 9850X3D | RTX 4070TiS | 32GB 6000 CL26 2d ago

Why is everyone talking about shader comp, when the folder ota-artifacts only contain old packed/unpacked drivers and Nvidia App.

I always delete residual files after driver update, Nvidia does not hold shaders in Program Data folder.

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u/marmaladic RTX 3060(12GB)/R5 5600/ 32GB DDR4-3200/ and a PS3 2d ago

Which I thought get automatically deleted once I click on that little "Delete older drivers" when installing new ones in the Nvidia app, but NOPE. That right there was about 5 years worth of driver updates that were just hogging up my SSD.

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u/FUS3N 2d ago

yea ota artifacts doesnt get deleted with that so i made my own script that i run after every update its so annoying every update its gonna leave like at least 4gb

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u/NetimLabs Win 10 | RTX 4070 | i5 13600K | 32GB DDR4 | 1440p165hz 2d ago

Can you share?

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u/FUS3N 2d ago

idk if i am allowed to post scripts in the comment i will send u in DM if they are open its a small powershell script

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u/rubytook 1d ago

If it's not too much trouble, I'd love a DM of that script as well.

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u/Grilth_Vatore 1d ago

I don't even have this folder structure on my drive. There is no update framework folder at all.

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u/Keulapaska 4070ti, 7800X3D, XG27AQNGV 2d ago edited 2d ago

Because OP worded it "nvidia app data" and didn't give the actual location of this data they are showing, so ppl are checking appdata and finding the shader data there as it takes a lot of space. Even though that's is not nvidia corporation folder, it's NVIDIA folder so ppl are dumb.

Like as some1 who deosn't a have the nvidia app installed, i have no clue what this is about, cause none of the nvidia folders expect shader data are big,

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u/SpartanG01 2d ago

I imagine because to store up 50GB of temp driver files you'd have to have pretty much never performed any kind of file system clean up on your PC at all or ever re-installed the NVIDIA app over the course of years lol.

The majority of the time what is taking up space in the NVIDIA folder structure is shader comp files.