Ok so here’s a funny thing… when you go to the Drivers Download Page and Select:
Product Type: GeForce
Product Series: GeForce 10 Series (Nootebooks)
Product: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Windows Driver Type: DCH
Download Type: Game Ready Driver (GDR)
Language: English (US)
You can actually download the DCH drivers, but once you install it says:
NVIDIA Installer cannot continue
This NVIDIA graphics driver is not compatible with this version of Windows.
This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware.
Looking a bit deep on the files I realize that there’s no hardware ID on the INF files inside the Display.Drivers folder.
I’ve compared both Legacy and DCH and the hardware ID is only on the Legacy driver on the file nvami.inf
Here’s a little bit of context of what I did:
g3nsvrv@LAPTOP-S60HCV51:/mnt/d/Drivers/VGA_NVIDIA_W10_64_V2621143086_UWP/Display.Driver$ grep “DEV_1C8C&SUBSYS_18FE1043” *.inf
g3nsvrv@LAPTOP-S60HCV51:/mnt/d/Drivers/VGA_NVIDIA_W10_64_V2621143086_UWP/Display.Driver$ cd …
g3nsvrv@LAPTOP-S60HCV51:/mnt/d/Drivers/VGA_NVIDIA_W10_64_V2621143086_UWP$ cd …
g3nsvrv@LAPTOP-S60HCV51:/mnt/d/Drivers$ cd VGA_NVIDIA_W10_64_V2621143086_Legacy/Display.Driver/
g3nsvrv@LAPTOP-S60HCV51:/mnt/d/Drivers/VGA_NVIDIA_W10_64_V2621143086_Legacy/Display.Driver$ grep “DEV_1C8C&SUBSYS_18FE1043” *.inf
nvami.inf:%NVIDIA_DEV.1C8C.18FE.1043% = Section058, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C8C&SUBSYS_18FE1043
nvami.inf:%NVIDIA_DEV.1C8C.18FE.1043% = Section058, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C8C&SUBSYS_18FE1043
nvami.inf:%NVIDIA_DEV.1C8C.18FE.1043% = Section057, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C8C&SUBSYS_18FE1043
So, there’s any reason why my hardware ID is not available on the DCH drivers? and why I can download it from the download page if it is not available?