TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker

TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker 1.29.0

GeForce Experience sucks, this is the best open sourced AND lightweight NVIDIA GPU update checker.

  • By Hawaii_Beach
  • Open Source
  • Updated Sep 20, 2026
Download for Windows

About TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker

GeForce Experience sucks, this is the best open sourced AND lightweight NVIDIA GPU update checker.

What's new in 1.29.0

[1.29.0] - 2026-09-20
Added
- Individual driver release notes (does not apply to experimental metadata)
- 5-minute timeout for driver extraction (Author: @TanoINA)
Fixed
- Minimal install failing on paths containing spaces or unicode characters (Author: @TanoINA)
- Notebook driver recommendation for mobile GPUs (experimental metadata) (Author: @TanoINA)
- Allowed segmented downloader parallel downloads (Author: @TanoINA)
- Crashes when no drivers were found (Author: @TanoINA)
- Potential UI thread deadlock during download (Author: @TanoINA)
- Many edge cases for components handling (Author: @TanoINA)
- Freeze on broken MSIX app-based library lookup (NanaZip)
- Cancel execution when closing visual progress bar (edge case) (Author: @TanoINA)
- Experimental metadata no longer freezes whilst retrieving release date, shows "loading" instead of "unknown" (Author: @TanoINA)
- Configuration Menu showing "autorun" popup on every open
Changed
- Don't allow unattended execution when config isn't set up (Author: @TanoINA)
- Optimized internal Windows calls for faster startup and slightly lower resource usage (Replaced DllImport with LibraryImport)
- Improved driver release notes: don't show Studio driver intro, and fixed leftover whitespaces at the bottom (applies to old metadata)

Full release notes »

Technical details

PublisherHawaii_Beach
Version1.29.0
Release date2026-09-20
LicenseGPL-3.0
Installer typeportable
Architecturex64
Package IDHawaii_Beach.TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker

Links & install command

Install TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Hawaii_Beach.TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker -e

checkdrivergpunvidiaupdatewindows

Older versions

  • 1.28.0
  • 1.27.0
  • 1.26.2
  • 1.26.1
  • 1.26.0
  • 1.25.2
  • 1.25.1
  • 1.25.0
  • 1.23.0