No Nvidia Driver(s) Installed?

[Omega83]

Hi guys. I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop with an RTX 5060, and recently did a factory reset on it to replace the OS SSD with a larger one. The reset was successful, but it had a much older Nvidia Driver installed, I think it was 577 or something like that. When I went to install the latest Nvidia Game Ready Driver, it passed the compatibility check, but then it didn't display any current driver(s) version numbers, the fields were blank, or said "none", even though I could access Nvidia Control Panel to see the 577 driver version or whatever the number was. I chose to do a custom Driver install, as I didn't want the included Nvidia App. The Nvidia Driver install went through ok, and I went back into the Driver installer to see what versions of Nvidia drivers were installed, and the version numbers were there. Going forward, should I be concerned about trying to install newer and/or upcoming GRD's? Thoughts and help appreciated 🙂

 

[Colif]

Easiest way to tell which driver you currently have installed is:

right click start
choose run...
type DXDIAG and press enter

On the display tab it will show you which driver is being used

on a laptop, its possible you have two display tabs as some of them use the integrated GPU in the CPU for light tasks and only use the Nvidia GPU for games.

Going forward, should I be concerned about trying to install newer and/or upcoming GRD's?

I would only update Nvidia drivers if the new ones fix something in a game you play or add support for one. If you had installed the application, I think it auto updates the drivers. But I wouldn't bother if its a manual process.