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Thank you. First post updated. :)
I just got a windows update for my GTX driver to 353.50 from 353.49
Look again. You may have just received an "update" to 353.30.
Windows Update insists on giving you the latest WHQL drivers. At the moment, all newer ones than 353.30 are betas (non-WHQL).
I'm not sure that this works to block the re-install of the older drivers, but I'm giving it a try:
How to block automatic reinstall of a driver or update from Windows - Microsoft Community
Basic procedure:
Download the application on the page.
Uninstall the 353.30 drivers.
Run the application. (It should detect the 353.30 drivers as available.) Hide the unwanted download.
Install the nVidia drivers that you prefer.
I'd like MS to restore the ability to hide updates in the released version of Win10, like for the past few Windows versions, but I'm not hopeful. It's damnably annoying.
No insult was intended.
I checked the Microsoft Update archive before posting, and I failed to spot 353.50. Ditto at Visual Computing Leadership from NVIDIA.
If I've successfully blocked a real update, that'll be embarrassing.
Windows update also gave me 353.50, but interestingly enough it isn't in the drivers section of the GeForce site yet and there isn't a post about it on the GeForce Forums yet (from Nvidia I mean, 1 guy posted about his mouse cursor being funky but that is all )
I went through Windows Update after the upgrade to 10240 and it gave me 353.30, so I wiped it out again and installed 353.49.
Edit: Found a copy of the 353.50 driver. Won't install for me. Says "Compatible Hardware Not Found", even though GTX 970 is listed in the device list. Weird.
Last edited by blackroseMD1; 15 Jul 2015 at 19:09.