ObscureEmpyre
 
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Montana.Actual

ObscureEmpyre
 
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Did you try the new ones in RDR2 yet? 

doggz1999
First, ObscureEmpyre you clearly don't know what you are talking about or where to look to determine if the driver installed was Standard or DCH.  Go on the control panel, and click on help.  Then go under system information and look at the driver type, it will say standard or DCH.  You will find it says DCH for driver 496.49.
By the way, Nvidia is only offering DCH from this point on due to the requirement for windows drivers vs windows desktop drivers which he first posted they would be changing back in August 2021. Nvidia has no control over this.
Nvidia requested and recieved permission from Mircosoft to offer the the NVIDIA control panel app as a side-loaded apx package included with the driver update packages (this has been the case for at least the past 3 - 4 months now), to help with prevent issues for people who had trouble installing the control panel in the past, but this is still provided by Microsoft for package "splitting" which is part of the DCH paradigm.  This also means that the Microsoft store will update the NVIDIA control panel app if windows update finds it has a more "up-to-date" driver to offer or that it may find that the control panel is not compatablie with your hardware/software.
 
Now, this is why I don't like the DCH drivers.  Look at page 12 of the documentation for 496.49.  "Note: You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See “Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store” on page 17 for more information". 
The DCH drivers will be paticularly problemsome for laptops and PCs that want "vendor only" drivers as it always has been in the past. 
Further, for Mr. ObscureEmpoyer, on that NVIDIA support page it states, "Updated 09/29/2021 01:09 PM" and "Per Microsoft requirements, the NVIDIA Control Panel is no longer included in the driver package and is instead distributed exclusively through the Microsoft Store and seamlessly installed following the completion of the NVIDIA driver installation".  This means the control panel you are looking at is the NVIDIA control panel APP provided by splitting (again a part of the DCH paradigm) by Microsoft for NVIDIA to side-load during each driver update!

Sajin
Installed these today. They are definitely DCH. Nvidia control panel worked fine. Had to agree to some terms before the control panel would open which never happened with a standard driver. I have windows updates completely disabled on my rig, so the windows store definitely didn't install the control panel from the windows store, so what doggz1999 stated about the dch drivers coming with a side-loaded appx package with the control panel included is true. Driver works fine for me. 

doggz1999
Did you read my post or just write "cool story bro".  
Instead of being rude try to leard from what I am explaining to you.
I said from "this point on" which means now and in the future.
In the past they offered the DCH and standard drivers but included in the DCH drivers, since around 47x.xx was the NVCP app.
Prior to this, you would have to download it seperately from the store; downloading it seperately from the store has caused people signficant issues and still can as I quoted from Nvidia "cool story bro" post.
I'm not sure you completely understand the difference between standard and DCH along with the difference between the NVCP and the NVCP app? 
Why would you state, "When it comes to the Windows Store installing the NVCP, it’s definitely not coming from there. I DDU’d 472.12 to include the NVCP prior to installing 496.49".
If you installed the 472.12 standard then you had the NVCP and not the NVCP app which look nearly identical. 
If you installed 472.12 DCH you had the NVCP app.
When you updated your drivers to 496.13 the NVCP app was installed or you would not have the option to change the shader cache space allocated.
You can block updates from the MS store so the NVCP does not update but when you download updated Nvidia drivers the NVCP app will be updated or installed if your previous driver only had the NVCP. 
Again for example, the option to choose how much shader cache space is avaliable is only an option on the NVCP app in the DCH version of drivers starting with 496.xx.  There is a not standard NVCP that offers this choice.
The NVCP app will always be included with the DCH package and will be side-load/updated automatically when installing the future drivers to make it seamless.
This means you won't be able to tell the difference except for suttle changes if you know where to look.
To find out if the app is indeed installed go under windows settings and then apps; you will find an app called Nvidia Control Panel along with the version number.
This is not from NVIDIA this is the NVCP app included in the nvidia driver package even if you had your internet disconnected, the app is ultimately supervised by Microsoft and the exact same app is avaliable on the store.  
 
Also, please take a moment to explore the Nividia forums.
Although unintentiional, spreading misinformation (such as 496.49 was still a standard driver) could potentially causing others to have issues or end up confused about the current drivers which leads to difficulty troubleshooting if they have issues.
Also, try looking up the information that  post under the support section of he Geforce forums since he does a very thorough job explaining all this.
 
FYI to everyone else, there is a hotfix avaliable 496.69 that manuel jsut posted today.

ObscureEmpyre

kraade
I tried it and went back to 472.12

Seems like the logical thing to do at this point. Hopefully Nvidia irons out the kinks in the near future. I’m sure they have their hands full with Win11 being a thing now, but still. It’d been a long time since I’d had to go back to an older drivers version, but now I’ve had to do it twice in the same month.

kraade

ObscureEmpyre

kraade
I tried it and went back to 472.12

Seems like the logical thing to do at this point. Hopefully Nvidia irons out the kinks in the near future. I’m sure they have their hands full with Win11 being a thing now, but still. It’d been a long time since I’d had to go back to an older drivers version, but now I’ve had to do it twice in the same month.

With Update 6 for MSFS 2020 I had a myriad of issues breaking all kinds of thing except my iracing. I decided to bite the bullet and do a clean windows install, there are multiple thing infiltrating from Win 11 the are getting put in that are not compatible with our current setups, I finally discovered the even though I am on Win 10 pro that TPM is required with the Win 11 stuff that is coming in . It was not ever the trouble codes that showed up either but it was causing all kind of issues. I installed this driver and ran Port royal and lost 2000 points, but hit reset and all is normal now, 14,207 on a hot card on default is about where I was , 
 
TPM you can enable in you MB bios under security

ckarlic
Ok,  I noticed something strange happening.  I installed Driver 496.49 (Used DDU) and am coming from 472.12.  When the driver is installed everything works great.  I fire up Horizon 5 and with settings on Extreme I get smooth gameplay with 92FPS.  However, I noticed that when Precision X1 starts up, my frames drop to about 20FPS or less on all my games.  Not sure if X1 is the problem or not.  Im not sure if anyone else notices this.  Im on a RTX 3080 XC3 card.  I have been trying to figure this out for the last 2 days and dont know what else to try.  Driver works great right after the install but after I restart and X1 starts up on boot up my FPS goes to crap.  I am seeing this behavior even when I go back to 472.12 now.