Find and install NVIDIA Drivers

Finding and installing an appropriate driver for your NVIDIA RTX/Quadro graphics card depends on various parameters, mainly the GPU model and the operating system you are using.

Which NVIDIA driver should be used?

VIOSO does not recommend specific drivers since as per version 5xx all GPUs from the NVIDIA RTX/Quadro support EDID minding and Mosaic on any GPU. However, there might be recommendations from the vendor of your workstation or server that you should follow at first.

If there are no such recommendations, you can follow a generic scheme to find a suitable driver for your system:

Use current drivers with a high revision number. The higher a revision number, the more stable a driver turns out to be.

How to obtain NVIDIA drivers

NVIDIA drivers are availble as public downloads. They change frequently.

• Step 1: Open the official NVIDIA driver search: https://www.nvidia.com/download/find.aspx

• Step 2: Filter according to your system:

Parameter	suggested value	comment
Product type	NVIDIA RTX/Quadro
Product Series	NVIDIA RTX Series
Product	select your GPU	if you run multiple GPUs, choose the GPU with the oldest release date
Operating System	select your OS	we do not recommend to use 32-Bit systems anymore
Language	English (US)
Recommended/Beta	Recommended/Certified	Do not use Beta or New Feature Branch drivers

Example of NVIDIA driver search for an A4000-based Windows 10 system

• Step 3: Select the driver based on these considerations:

  1. Use a driver from the R5... version

  2. Use a driver from the most current or second current version

  3. Use a driver with a high revision number ("U-number"). Drivers with a high "U-number" are considerably more stable then drivers with a low U-number In this sample, we would choose R535 since it has already 12 revisions ("U12"), whereas the more recent branch R550 has 4 revisions ("U4"). We would not pick R470 anymore, even if it comes with a high number of revisions.

     

     Drivers with a high "U-number" are considerably more stable then drivers with a low U-number

Installing NVIDIA drivers

Installing NVIDIA drivers is pretty straight forward. However, it's important to keep some aspects in mind:

• Step 1: Deactivate any Mosaic configuration. Otherwise drivers may not install correctly!

• Step 2: Launch the installer with Administrator privileges

  • Choose "custom install"

  • Do not install the RTX desktop manager

  • Make a clean install

Parameters for the NVIDIA driver installer:

parameter	suggested value	comment
installation option	Custom	do not run an express insallation
driver components	[x] graphics driver [x] HD audiodriver	do not install the RTX Desktop Manager
clean install	[x] clean install	check the box to run a clean install of the driver

recommended driver installation parameters (custom install option)

• Step 3: Run the installer

• Step 4: Reboot, even if not prompted to do so after the installer has finished

NEVER do a mosaic setup right after installing the driver without doing a reboot!