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NVIDIA Driver Downloader Changelog

What's new in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.4.0

Aug 4, 2022
  • Quadro Card Support!
  • Slightly more debloating support added!
  • NVIDIA Control Panel Installation! (No MS Store required! | Refer to the wiki for more details.)
  • HWID Detection! (Its faster than any of the previous implementations!)
  • Prefetch all files and dump to disk. (Faster to reuse.)

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.4.0 Pre-release 7 (Jul 25, 2022)

  • Fix Issue:
  • UnboundLocalError: local variable 'texts' referenced before assignment with "-u" option #11
  • Add more error handling.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.4.0 Pre-release 6 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Enforce UTF-8 for dumped files.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.4.0 Pre-release 5 (Jul 20, 2022)

  • Make all instances of exit() as Exceptions.
  • Prefetch files for NVIDIA GPU list and PCIIDs and dump them to disk.
  • Fetch the latest 7-Zip console executable, faster than searching for a 7-Zip installation.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.4.0 Pre-release 4 (Jul 17, 2022)

  • Version parsing is now offloaded to the get_driver_versions function.
  • This should hopefully fix any driver updating and downloading functions when dealing with Quadro Cards.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.4.0 Pre-release 2 (Jul 16, 2022)

  • Added Quadro Card Support. (Basic Detection.)
  • Added an error message, incase an uncatchable expection is encountered.
  • Check out the log and traceback files for more details.
  • Log: "%TEMP%nvddl.log"
  • Traceback: "%TEMP%nvddl_traceback.txt"

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.4.0 Pre-release 1 (Jul 10, 2022)

  • Switched to HWID Detection.
  • Added additional debloating for an extracted driver package. (Setting certain values within Presentations.cfg to "".)
  • Added Links for Quadro Cards. (Refer #7 for more details.)

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.4.3 (Jul 1, 2022)

  • NVDDL should download the correct type for the correct system type.
  • (Basically laptop drivers being downloaded for desktops and desktop drivers being downloaded for laptops.)
  • Added a logging system for better debugging. (This will allow to see how NVDDL exactly NVDDL is working or behaving.)
  • Added a traceback file which generates when an uncatchable exception occurs.
  • Removed fallback mode for HWID Detection.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.4.2 (Jun 21, 2022)

  • Use winreg for fetching data from the Windows Registry.
  • Small Tweaks.
  • Reformatted + Restructured Source Code.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.4.1 (Jun 11, 2022)

  • Add a Keyboard Interrupt Exception.
  • Add EOL into the update function.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.4 (Jun 10, 2022)

  • Added the ability to pass flags via the --flags argument, refer the wiki for more information.
  • Added a new argument --no-stdout, prevents NVDDL from piping into stdout.
  • Revamped text formatting module for verbose messages.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.3 (Jun 3, 2022)

  • Added a new driver option --setup to execute the driver setup.
  • Highlight driver packages in file explorer by default.
  • Small Optimizations + Experimental Code.
  • Added colors when outputing tasks!

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.2 (May 29, 2022)

  • Added a file check for --extract.
  • Changed a few verbose strings when executing --download.
  • Auto execute setup.exe when --extract is used.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.1 (May 24, 2022)

  • Fixed bugs with extract and update functions.
  • Added PhysX to be included in extracted driver packages via --components.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.3.0 (May 21, 2022)

  • Updated argument names.
  • Always use an extracted driver package with the display driver extracted by default.
  • Specify which components to include in the extracted driver package.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.2.2 (May 14, 2022)

  • Debloat drivers as soon as you download them. Use the --minimal flag to debloat on the fly.
  • Small source code improvements.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.2.1 (May 11, 2022)

  • Better system detection to check if the user is using a laptop or desktop, nothing else.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.2.0 (May 10, 2022)

  • Added standard driver support.
  • Transfer some functions into utils.py.
  • Display a warning saying Operation Cancelled. if the user decides to force quit the application.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.1.3 (May 6, 2022)

  • If the user decides to suspend execution of the program, simply exit.
  • Fixed studio driver listing speed + it should show more driver versions than before.
  • Displays a message incase no drivers are found for a given gpu.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.1.1 (Apr 28, 2022)

  • Added a function to parse GPU list XML file into a dictionary.
  • Removing 'NVIDIA' from the WMI GPU name is only done when 'GeForce' in present in the name.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.1.0 (Apr 25, 2022)

  • Automatic GPU detection via WMI.
  • Automatic laptop detection via WMI.
  • Improved CLI Arguments.
  • Improved source code readability.

New in NVIDIA Driver Downloader 1.0.1 (Mar 18, 2022)

  • This release aims to reduce the amount of flags generated by antiviruses.