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Nvidia and its components: important or not?

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christian_0015 Posted messages 48 Status Member -  
 codexa174 -

Hello, during the installation of the NVIDIA driver

we are offered to install a component panel

AND THE QUESTION I ASK MYSELF

what should we actually install

Thank you in advance

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Panth33ra Posted messages 23096 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   Ambassadeur 2 356
 

Hello,

In my opinion, everything needs to be installed.
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bilou
 

Hello @ Panth33ra and christian_0015

It's never completely ruled out to have a driver that conflicts with another software or isn't the best for all the hardware present, which can always happen, but as long as there were no current drivers, it's obvious to start by installing all of them. If the world were perfect, they would all provide the same drivers.

If a defect then appears with one of the drivers, there will always be time to look for a solution from other sources like the motherboard, graphics card, or CPU manufacturers or Microsoft; computing is not an exact science, that's for sure.

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christian_0015 Posted messages 48 Status Member > bilou
 

thank you both

however, another question has been bothering me for a long time: why do I need to "install (the Nvidia AUDIO driver) when the sound on my PC is working perfectly? I tried disabling the Realtek but ended up with no sound at all, so what is the purpose of this Nvidia audio driver?

thanks again

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flo88 Posted messages 28474 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 164 > christian_0015 Posted messages 48 Status Member
 

Hello

In reality, these are options as indicated in the installation module, so there is no need to install them, only the display driver is mandatory, physx and 3D vision are interesting, the sound driver is used to pass audio through the HDMI or display port via an integrated graphics circuit on the graphics card. In practice, it doesn’t really serve much... except for transferring the sound from a movie to a TV via HDMI for example.

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christian_0015 Posted messages 48 Status Member > flo88 Posted messages 28474 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention  
 

Thank you all for your time in responding to me

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codexa174
 

Indeed, the Nvidia audio driver is only useful if you want to transmit sound through the HDMI or DisplayPort, for example when connecting your PC to a TV or another external display. If you are only using the internal speakers or the headphone output of your computer, you can easily do without it. However, always keep the Display Driver and perform a quick full display test (like a Black Screen Test) to ensure that your screen is functioning properly after installation and that there is no flickering or brightness issues.
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