Bit the bullet and made time this weekend to switch over all my Turing, Ampere, and Ada cards over to 610.88
(left the Pascals on 566.36)
No worries so far, and the nVIDIA Control Panel is gone for good
Much better than my experiences with 25H1/H2 drivers
To be clear, I'm talking about fresh Windows images with no GPU drivers installed prior to installing a specific version to try, and Windows driver updates disabled
Sampled a few 2025 driver versions (admittedly I think all 25H2), and got browser crashes, and micro-stuttering / frame pacing...
Memory might be failing me, but doesn't Toshiba have some IBM / HGST heritage?
I've purchased nothing but Toshiba and HGST over the past ~2 decades (and Seagate / WD in portable HDDs)
I'm still on 566.36 across my Pascal, Turing, Ampere, and Ada cards
What's considered the next stable release (all the 2025 drivers I tried were f*cking horrible)