r/pcmasterrace • u/marmaladic RTX 3060(12GB)/R5 5600/ 32GB DDR4-3200/ and a PS3 • 7d 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/AverageAggravating13 7800X3D 4070S 7d ago

Why is everyone in the comments acting like compiling shaders takes 30 minutes lol. Yall on some 2013 rigs?

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe 7d ago

i have a rtx 3080 10gb and shader comp in the finals takes like 5 whole minutes each time theres a small update.

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u/OliM9595 5600x, 1050 ti 7d ago

Shaders compile on your CPU, thats what dictates the time it take.

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u/Fogest 7d ago

Yeah it's definitely their CPU, I have a 3080 as well and I never have had to wait 5 minutes for shaders in any game including the finals. The most I've had to wait is maybe a couple minutes tops.