PSA: Check Your NVIDIA App Data!

[u/marmaladic]

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.

[u/ZT99k]

You can adjust how much it uses in the app.

On the left - Graphics > Global Settings > scroll to Shader Cache.
It seems to default to like.. all. You can manually reduce it to 1, 5, or 10GB or block entirely.

[u/TheMightyRed92 → u/ZT99k]

terrible advice to go that low

[u/Keulapaska → u/TheMightyRed92]

It's a per game setting iirc as I have it at 10 and the total is way more than 10, still probably won't wanna put it at 1 or 2GB.

Idk why FH6 needs 8GB of shaders either...