If you haven’t updated your graphics drivers recently, you may not be aware of a change Nvidia instituted in December of 2019. Starting from that date, the Nvidia Control Panel is no longer distributed in the version of Nvidia drivers available for default off the main website. If you navigate to Nvidia.com and check the “GeForce Drivers” page, the driver you’ll be offered is what Microsoft calls a “DCH” (Declarative Componentized Hardware) driver, and it doesn’t include Nvidia’s Control Panel. As of now, if you want the Nvidia Control Panel — and you probably do — you have to get it from the Microsoft Store. According to Nvidia, these changes were due to new requirements from Microsoft. DCH drivers always have the “DCH” string in the file name, e.g. “445.87-desktop-win10-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe”

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While it’s possible to download applications from the Microsoft Store without using a Microsoft account, the company uses any interaction with the Store as an excuse to push you towards creating one. When you attempt to download the Nvidia Control Panel without logging in first, the Windows Store shoves a login window in front of you to imply you must create an account in order to install the software.

1. We show you step by step how to install downloader on Android TV. This includes installing Downloader on two of the most popular android tv devices the Nvidi.
2. Click on the Download Button to continue downloading the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. Step 4: Once you click on the Download button, it will take you another page that will inform you that the file downloaded will contain the Nvidia display driver and the GeForce Experience application. Click on Download to commence downloading.
3. After you download, extract Nvidia driver files from executable with 7z or Winrar. Go to device manager, right click on the Nvidia display adapter and choose 'update driver.' Browse to the extracted Nvidia Driver folder 'Display.Driver' and perform update. Avoid all the other bloat.
4. (2) All the.exe files in C: ProgramData NVIDIA Corporation NetService (again, leave the folders intact) Again using my own machine as an example, we saved 967MB here. (3) If you've been running your current configuration for a particularly long time, you might still have a C: NVIDIA folder.
5. Download drivers for NVIDIA products including GeForce graphics cards, nForce motherboards, Quadro workstations, and more. Update your graphics card drivers today.

You don’t actually need to sign in, but Microsoft makes every effort to convince you that you do. When you click on “Install” this window appears. Note that there’s no actual installation happening yet, emphasizing the idea that you must enter information in these boxes in order to proceed.

If you “X” out of this window, the Nvidia Control Panel will install normally. If you’re happy allowing Microsoft to manage your drivers, you may not mind going this route. Speaking strictly for myself, I do mind.

Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for NVIDIA Control Panel. To get started, head to the NVIDIA driver download page. Here, you'll see a series of dropdowns that lets you input which product you own. Here, you'll see a series of dropdowns that lets you.

Just kidding! Microsoft wasn’t serious about that. This is known as a dark pattern.

I find Microsoft’s ongoing attempts to misrepresent the need for an online Windows account or trick users into creating one extremely distasteful. Even if I didn’t, I’ve had far too many bad experiences with allowing Windows to update drivers to ever give the OS carte blanche to do so. Allowing the OS to stealth-update the drivers on a testbed without requiring explicit permission is a great way to wind up testing two different GPU drivers without even being aware of it.

In some cases, enthusiasts may need to retain specific driver versions to solve bugs introduced in later versions. I had to manually uninstall the drivers for a friend’s AMD GPU earlier this year after Windows updated him to a driver afflicted with the black screen problems that hit Radeon cards earlier in 2020. While AMD’s driver issues in that instance were not Microsoft’s fault, the fact remains, it was Microsoft that updated my friend’s GPU to an incompatible driver — not him.

Also, under this new distribution scheme, it’s possible for your Control Panel to be incompatible with your currently installed driver. Nvidia has a tutorial for how to resolve this problem if it happens to you, but Microsoft has no business mandating customers jump through these hoops in the first place.

How to Download Standard Nvidia Drivers

Luckily, there’s still an alternative available from Nvidia itself, as mentioned in the company’s Help page for these driver distribution changes. Gamers and compute customers can download a standard Nvidia driver distribution using the Advanced Driver Search page. Note that this page is different from the “All Drivers” search page.

Nvidia’s Advanced Driver Search Page.

One of the explicit options on the Advanced Search page is to search for the Standard Nvidia driver download as opposed to the DCH version. We’ve spoken to Nvidia about the Standard versus DCH question and while the company assures us that the two driver sets are functionally equivalent, it also has no plans to stop offering a Standard driver.

If you want to use the Standard driver, we recommend installing Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) and setting the option to prevent Windows from searching for updated drivers when Windows Update runs:

The order of events I’d recommend following to ensure a smooth uninstallation/reinstallation process is:

1). Download DDU and the Standard Nvidia driver you want to install.

2). Run Nvidia’s default uninstaller. Do not immediately reboot after uninstalling your existing driver.

3). Launch DDU and allow the application to reboot you into Safe Mode.

4). When DDU reboots you into Safe Mode, make certain you use the “Options” menu to set the flag shown above. Select your Nvidia GPU from the drop-down list of options DDU offers and choose the appropriate outcome you desire (Clean system and reboot, clean system and don’t reboot, clean system and shutdown).

5). Once your system reboots, install the Standard Nvidia driver you previously downloaded.

Obviously some people may not have even noticed the change in the Nvidia driver distribution model, or may not care about using the new, Microsoft system. If you do care, however, there’s still a way to download the Nvidia Control Panel from Nvidia and to retain manual control over how and when your drivers are updated.

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Abstract

This cuDNN 8.0.5 Installation Guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to install and check for correct operation of cuDNN on Linux and Microsoft Windows systems.

For previously released cuDNN installation documentation, see cuDNN Archives.

1. Overview

Deep learning researchers and framework developers worldwide rely on cuDNN for high-performance GPU acceleration. It allows them to focus on training neural networks and developing software applications rather than spending time on low-level GPU performance tuning. cuDNN accelerates widely used deep learning frameworks and is freely available to members of the NVIDIA Developer Program™.

2. Installing cuDNN On Linux

2.1. Prerequisites

2.1.1. Installing NVIDIA Graphics Drivers

1. Go to: NVIDIA download drivers
2. Select the GPU and OS version from the drop-down menus.
3. Download and install the NVIDIA graphics driver as indicated on that web page. For more information, select the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION tab for step-by-step instructions for installing a driver.
4. Restart your system to ensure the graphics driver takes effect.

2.1.2. Installing The CUDA Toolkit For Linux

2.2. Downloading cuDNN For Linux

In order to download cuDNN, ensure you are registered for the NVIDIA Developer Program.

1. Go to: NVIDIA cuDNN home page.
2. Click Download.
3. Complete the short survey and click Submit.
4. Accept the Terms and Conditions. A list of available download versions of cuDNN displays.
5. Select the cuDNN version you want to install. A list of available resources displays.

2.3. Installing On Linux

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• your CUDA directory path is referred to as /usr/local/cuda/
• your cuDNN download path is referred to as <cudnnpath>

2.3.1. Tar File Installation

1. Navigate to your <cudnnpath> directory containing the cuDNN tar file.
2. Unzip the cuDNN package.

   or

3. Copy the following files into the CUDA Toolkit directory.

2.3.2. Debian Installation

1. Navigate to your <cudnnpath> directory containing the cuDNN Debian file.
2. Install the runtime library, for example:

   or

3. Install the developer library, for example:

   or

4. Install the code samples and the cuDNN library documentation, for example:

   or

2.3.3. RPM Installation

1. Download the rpm package libcudnn*.rpm to the local path.
2. Install the rpm package from the local path. This will install the cuDNN libraries.

   or

2.3.4. Package Manager Installation

If the actual installation packages are available online, then the package manager will automatically download them and install them. Otherwise, the package manager installs a local repository containing the installation packages on the system.

Whether the repository is available online or installed locally, the installation procedure is identical.

2.3.4.1. Ubuntu Network Installation

1. Enable the repository. The following commands enable the repository containing information about the appropriate cuDNN libraries online.Option

   Description
   For Ubuntu 16.04
   For Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04	Where ${OS} is ubuntu1804 or ubuntu2004.

2. Install the cuDNN library:
   Where:

   • ${cudnn_version} is 8.0.5.39
   • ${cuda_version} is cuda10.2, cuda10.1, cuda11.0 or cuda11.1

2.3.4.2. RHEL Network Installation

1. Enable the repository:

   Where ${OS} is rhel7 or rhel8.

2. Install the cuDNN library:
   Where:

   • ${cudnn_version} is 8.0.5.39
   • ${cuda_version} is cuda10.2, cuda10.1, cuda11.0 or cuda11.1

2.4. Verifying The Install On Linux

1. Copy the cuDNN samples to a writable path.
2. Go to the writable path.
3. Compile the mnistCUDNN sample.
4. Run the mnistCUDNN sample.
   If cuDNN is properly installed and running on your Linux system, you will see a message similar to the following:

2.5. Upgrading From cuDNN 7.x.x To cuDNN 8.x.x

To upgrade from cuDNN v7 to v8, refer to the Package Manager Installation section and follow the steps for your OS.

To switch between v7 and v8 installations, issue sudo update-alternatives --config libcudnn and choose the appropriate cuDNN version.

2.6. Troubleshooting

3. Installing cuDNN On Windows

3.1. Prerequisites

3.1.1. Installing NVIDIA Graphic Drivers

1. Go to: NVIDIA download drivers
2. Select the GPU and OS version from the drop-down menus.
3. Download and install the NVIDIA driver as indicated on that web page. For more information, select the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION tab for step-by-step instructions for installing a driver.
4. Restart your system to ensure the graphics driver takes effect.

3.1.2. Installing The CUDA Toolkit For Windows

3.2. Downloading cuDNN For Windows

In order to download cuDNN, ensure you are registered for the NVIDIA Developer Program.

1. Go to: NVIDIA cuDNN home page.
2. Click Download.
3. Complete the short survey and click Submit.
4. Accept the Terms and Conditions. A list of available download versions of cuDNN displays.
5. Select the cuDNN version to want to install. A list of available resources displays.
6. Extract the cuDNN archive to a directory of your choice.

3.3. Installing On Windows

Before issuing the following commands, you'll need to replace x.x and 8.x.x.x with your specific CUDA and cuDNN versions and package date.

• The CUDA directory path is referred to as C:Program FilesNVIDIA GPU Computing ToolkitCUDAvx.x
• The cuDNN directory path is referred to as <installpath>

1. Navigate to your <installpath> directory containing cuDNN.
2. Unzip the cuDNN package. or
3. Copy the following files into the CUDA Toolkit directory.
   1. Copy <installpath>cudabincudnn*.dll to C:Program FilesNVIDIA GPU Computing ToolkitCUDAvx.xbin.
   2. Copy <installpath>cudaincludecudnn*.h to C:Program FilesNVIDIA GPU Computing ToolkitCUDAvx.xinclude.
   3. Copy <installpath>cudalibx64cudnn*.lib to C:Program FilesNVIDIA GPU Computing ToolkitCUDAvx.xlibx64.
4. Set the following environment variables to point to where cuDNN is located. To access the value of the $(CUDA_PATH) environment variable, perform the following steps:
   1. Open a command prompt from the Start menu.
   2. Type Run and hit Enter.
   3. Issue the control sysdm.cpl command.
   4. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the window.
   5. Click Environment Variables at the bottom of the window.
   6. Ensure the following values are set:
5. Include cudnn.lib in your Visual Studio project.
   1. Open the Visual Studio project and right-click on the project name.
   2. Click Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies.
   3. Add cudnn.lib and click OK.

3.4. Upgrading From cuDNN 7.x.x To cuDNN 8.x.x

3.5. Troubleshooting

4. Cross-compiling cuDNN Samples

4.1. NVIDIA DRIVE OS Linux

4.1.1. Installing The CUDA Toolkit For DRIVE OS

1. Download the Ubuntu package: cuda*ubuntu*_amd64.deb
2. Download the cross compile package: cuda*-cross-aarch64*_all.deb
3. Execute the following commands:

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4.1.2. Installing cuDNN For DRIVE OS

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1. Download cuDNN Ubuntu package for your preferred CUDA Toolkit version: *libcudnn7-cross-aarch64_*.deb
2. Download the cross compile package: libcudnn7-dev-cross-aarch64_*.deb
3. Execute the following commands:

4.1.3. Cross-compiling cuDNN Samples For DRIVE OS

1. Copy the cudnn_samples_v7 directory to your home directory:
2. For each sample, execute the following commands:

4.2. NVIDIA DRIVE OS QNX

4.2.1. Installing The CUDA Toolkit For QNX

1. Download the Ubuntu package: cuda*ubuntu*_amd64.deb
2. Download the Cross compile package: cuda*-cross-aarch64*_all.deb
3. Execute the following commands:

4.2.2. Installing cuDNN For QNX

1. Download the cuDNN Ubuntu package for your preferred CUDA Toolkit version: *libcudnn7-cross-aarch64_*.deb
2. Download the cross compile package: libcudnn7-dev-cross-aarch64_*.deb
3. Execute the following commands:

4.2.3. Set The Environment Variables

4.2.4. Cross-compiling cuDNN Samples For QNX

1. Copy the cudnn_samples_v7 directory to your home directory:
2. For each sample, execute the following commands:
   Note: Before issuing the following commands, you'll need to replace 7.x.x with your specific cuDNN version.

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