Getting "Your current GPU driver is newer than what NVIDIA reports!"
aricd opened this issue · comments
Executing tinynvidiaupdatechecker.exe shows:
TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker v1.16.4
Generating configuration file.
Verifying internet connection . . . OK!
Searching for Updates . . . OK!
Retrieving GPU information . . . OK!
Your current GPU driver is newer than what NVIDIA reports!
Press any key to exit...
Executing nvidia-smi.exe shows:
Tue Mar 28 10:30:04 2023
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 531.29 Driver Version: 531.29 CUDA Version: 12.1 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name TCC/WDDM | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro RTX 5000 WDDM | 00000000:01:00.0 On | Off |
| 34% 32C P8 16W / 230W| 920MiB / 16384MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
I was expecting an install of 531.41, over my 531.29. Not sure what's happening here. Is there a log so can I see what the software thinks my driver version is?
Hi well yea that is weird. Can you run TNUC with the --debug arg?
Can you show your GPU in device manager? Desktop or laptop? And where did you download your driver from?
Running with --debug I get:
TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker v1.16.4
Arg: --debug
configFile: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Hawaii_Beach\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\app.config
CHECK_UPDATE: true
MINIMAL_INSTALL: true
DOWNLOAD_LOCATION: us
Verifying internet connection . . . OK!
Searching for Updates . . . OK!
offlineVer: 1.16.4
onlineVer: 1.16.4
Retrieving GPU information . . . OK!
downloadURL: https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_Certified/528.89/528.89-quadro-rtx-desktop-notebook-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe
pdfURL: https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_Certified/528.89/528.89-win10-win11-nvidia-rtx-quadro-release-notes.pdf
releaseDate: 3/30/2023
downloadFileSize: 663 MiB
OfflineGPUVersion: 531.29
OnlineGPUVersion: 528.89
Your current GPU driver is newer than what NVIDIA reports!
Press any key to exit...
Yes, with OfflineGPUVersion: 531.29 and OnlineGPUVersion: 528.89 my driver is newer.
I have a desktop with a Quadro RTX 5000. My previous driver install was from "531.29-notebook-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe" downloaded from here: https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx. I realize that previously I didn't bother choosing "Nvidia RTX / Quatro" at the first step of download page, and got the more common non-enterprise driver.
It appears that TNUC chooses the "Production Branch/Studio" driver option for my card, not the "New Feature Branch (NFB)" or "Quadro New Feature (QNF)" option.
From the standard Nvidia download page when choosing:
- NVIDIA RTX Quadro
- NVIDIA RTX Series
- NVIDIA RTX A5000
- Windows 10 64-bit
- New Feature Branch
- English (US)
the recommended driver file name is: 531.41-quadro-rtx-desktop-notebook-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe which is the version that I want. Is there a way to configure the software to get this result?
@ZenitH-AT welp. No currently there is no way to configure it..
The newer driver version shows up if you add isWHQL=0 to the URL parameters as shown here.
Perhaps "New Feature Branch" just means non-WHQL certified drivers are included?
It may be worth supporting non WHQL verified drivers (isWHQL parameter) with some options. The same probably applies to the beta=1 parameter.
Thank you, this helped me understand what's happening.
Well you didnt have to close the issue but yea now you know why this happens..