https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/183364/en-us
 
New feature and fixes in driver 496.49:
Game Ready - This new Game Ready Driver provides support for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which utilizes NVIDIA DLSS to boost performance by up to 2x. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest new titles and updates, including Age of Empires IV, Battlefield 2042 Early Access, Call of Duty: Vanguard, Chivalry 2, Forza Horizon 5, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, Jurassic World Evolution 2, and Riders Republic.
New Features and Other Changes
Security updates - see Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - October 2021, which is available on the release date of this driver and is listed on the NVIDIA Product Security page
Game Ready Driver Fixes (For full list of fixes please check out release notes)
[Doom 3: BFG Edition]: Visual corruption occurs in the game. [3405146]
[Tom Clancy’s The Division 2]: Flickering and visual corruption may appear after extended gameplay. [3369607]
[LG OLED C1 series]: The display may show random black screen flicker at 1080p. [3404999]
Game Ready Driver Important Open Issues (For full list of open issues please check out release notes)
[Red Dead Redemption 2][Vulkan]: The game may randomly crash during gameplay. [3405911]
[WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship/WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship]: The games crash on launch. [3409320/3409312]
[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint]: Textures in the game may flicker. [3410593]
[Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when there is mouse movement. [3405920]
[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to “dGPU”, the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
 
 

Still only DCH. Passing 'til they can deign to release a standard driver.

No more standard drivers?

aka_STEVE_b

Sajin
No more standard drivers?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/183364/
 
win 11 & win 10  - WHQL

Those are dch.

rjohnson11
The Geforce standard drivers are now available. At the time I posted this thread only the DCH were available as NVIDIA were still loading the drivers to their website.

I don’t see them listed here... https://www.nvidia.com/Do..ad/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Sajin

rjohnson11
The Geforce standard drivers are now available. At the time I posted this thread only the DCH were available as NVIDIA were still loading the drivers to their website.

I don’t see them listed here... https://www.nvidia.com/Do..ad/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

https://www.nvidia.com/Do...ults.aspx/183364/en-us

rjohnson11

Sajin

rjohnson11
The Geforce standard drivers are now available. At the time I posted this thread only the DCH were available as NVIDIA were still loading the drivers to their website.

I don’t see them listed here... https://www.nvidia.com/Do..ad/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

https://www.nvidia.com/Do...ults.aspx/183364/en-us

Still the new DCH driver.

aka_STEVE_b
Not sure where you guys are  , but the ones I linked are regular Game-Ready  WHQL drivers, 496.49 
   -not DCH 
 
* unless you only search for win 10 , instead of win 11 ...?  

I’m on Win10, so why wouldn’t I search for Win10? Nvidia better not be going the route of Win10-only and Win11-only drivers, especially since they have no problems rolling out one large file that encompasses several generations of GPUs. I mean, if Win11 is that drastically different an architecture, then perhaps it’s understandable. Then again, one large file encompassing different generations and architecture of GPUs…

Sajin

aka_STEVE_b
Not sure where you guys are  , but the ones I linked are regular Game-Ready  WHQL drivers, 496.49 
 -not DCH 

* unless you only search for win 10 , instead of win 11 ...?  

When clicking the download button from your link it says dch in the file name once downloaded.

That was my observation as well. The funny part is that DCH drivers are supposed to be smaller in file size and take less time to install. I find the opposite is true all around.

Are DCH drivers inferior in any way to standard ones? 

arestavo
From what I know, they do not include the Nvidia Control Panel ...

 
I have DCH ones installed and whenever I download and install new ones NVCP gets installed so I'm not sure that's it (TBH I should try installing them when not connected to 'net to see whether that is correct).
 

arestavo
The reason why I won't install them is because the DCH versions have given me problems in the past, and I'd rather not deal with issues that the standard driver versions just don't have (at least on my PC).

 
How long ago was that and what the problems were, please?

arestavo
When they first started pushing them out. It's been long enough, and I'm old enough, that I don't remember the exact issues that multiple DCH drivers gave me. The impression was enough to keep me away from them.
 
Nvidia claimed that there's no difference. My experience put the lie to their words.

 
Thank you! I’m asking because on one side I have heard they are now identical and that DCH is what will be used going forward but at the same time I am being plagued by very intermittent odd video issues I can’t put my finger on is it hardware or software and I am starting to wonder should I try to DDU and switch to standard ones. I guess I will try that if issues persist, I have nothing to lose.

ObscureEmpyre
It’s probably the drivers. I DDU’d 472.12 before installing 496.13, and the latter gave me issues. So, I DDU’d again and went back to 472.12. Rinsed and repeated for 496.49. Given that I haven’t had issues with drivers for a very long time, I’d say these DCH ones are the problem.

So which drivers you are on now, please?

ObscureEmpyre
472.12. No point in using either 496.13 or 496.49 if they're just going to cause problems. My chief complaint is that Red Dead Redemption 2 sporadically crashes, and that's even listed in the known issues section of the release notes. I hope they narrow down the problem(s) with these DCH drivers. Otherwise, I may be stuck on 472.12 for a while.

472.12 DCH or standard?

ObscureEmpyre

ZoranC

ObscureEmpyre
472.12. No point in using either 496.13 or 496.49 if they're just going to cause problems. My chief complaint is that Red Dead Redemption 2 sporadically crashes, and that's even listed in the known issues section of the release notes. I hope they narrow down the problem(s) with these DCH drivers. Otherwise, I may be stuck on 472.12 for a while.

472.12 DCH or standard?

Oddly enough, if you download 472.12 from the GeForce Drivers page, it appears to be a DCH version according to the file title. However, if you download it from the Advanced Driver Search page, it appears to be a standard version.

Which one -you- have installed according to your NVCP sysinfo?