Getting "Your current GPU driver is newer than what NVIDIA reports!"

[aricd]

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?

[ElPumpo]

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?

[aricd]

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?

[ElPumpo]

@ZenitH-AT welp. No currently there is no way to configure it..

[ZenitH-AT]

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.

[aricd]

Thank you, this helped me understand what's happening.

[ElPumpo]

Well you didnt have to close the issue but yea now you know why this happens..