Command Line Error: Cannot find archive when trying to patch driver version 535.98

[alwanyassin]

I'm trying to patch the latest driver but there is an error message in the patch.bat progress but the progress is still going until it finished (Patch.bat windows closed automatically). Never seen that with older driver before. Is that a problem?

[dartraiden]

Looks like Nvidia has stopped packaging binaries with makecab utility. No more bi, dl, ex, ic, and sy_ files. Thus 7zip can't find those files and decompress them.

So this whole unpacking step is no longer required (the files are already unpacked) and you can ignore this message.

You can remove these blocks of code if you like, it will speed things up a bit.

7z e "%DRIVER%\*.bi_" -o"%DRIVER%"
7z e "%DRIVER%\*.dl_" -o"%DRIVER%"
7z e "%DRIVER%\*.ex_" -o"%DRIVER%"
7z e "%DRIVER%\*.ic_" -o"%DRIVER%"
7z e "%DRIVER%\*.sy_" -o"%DRIVER

if exist "%DRIVER%\nvd3dum.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvd3dum.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvd3dum_cfg.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvd3dum_cfg.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvd3dumx.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvd3dumx.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvd3dumx_cfg.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvd3dumx_cfg.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvoglv32.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvoglv32.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvoglv64.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvoglv64.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2um.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2um.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2um_cfg.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2um.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2umx.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2umx.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2umx_cfg.dll" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvwgf2umx_cfg.dll" /L "%DRIVER%"
if exist "%DRIVER%\nvlddmkm.sys" makecab "%DRIVER%\nvlddmkm.sys" /L "%DRIVER%"

I will keep this code for compatibility with previous versions of the driver.