Nvidia CP Showing Old Games Installed

[bigdogchris]

I have uninstalled Neverwinter Nights 2 from my PC. However, when I check the box that only shows currently installed applications, NWN2.exe is still showing as an installed title. I have searched my PC and not found this file. I also searched the registry and cannot find it there either. I have not yet tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers because if it is detecting it now, that makes me believe it may detect it after the reinstallation as well.

Any idea on how to get rid of this? Ignoring it, or not checking the box, is not a solution.

 

[Phishy714]

The reason you see it up is because at some point in time, Nvidia recognized it in the system and basically just saves it there. If you really can't have it there, I would try uninstalling the drivers and control panel, running driver sweeper to clear out everything Nvidia related and reinstalling. That MIGHT help, though its probably some random name file in your registry that it sees, thought I am not sure.

Curious, though, as to why you can't just leave it there?

 

[MavericK]

The automatic game detection for CP profiles doesn't work worth a shit. Half (or more) the games I have installed don't show up as installed. Steam games in particular I think.

 

[bigdogchris]

Curious, though, as to why you can't just leave it there?

Because when I click the box to 'only show programs found on this computer', I want to only see programs found on my computer.

 

[cannondale06]

Because when I click the box to 'only show programs found on this computer', I want to only see programs found on my computer.

why? Steam games are not going to even show up if you do that.

 

[bigdogchris]

why? Steam games are not going to even show up if you do that.

I'm not talking about Steam games. The point is, I removed a game from my computer and the Nvidia CP still thinks it's installed. I want to know why. If you don't think I should care, then this thread isn't for you.

I wiped out the drivers and reinstalled and NWN2.exe is still being detected as installed.

 

[evilsofa]

It took me a long, long time to figure out what the Nvidia drivers were doing here. The Nvidia games "detection" code simply looks at the shortcuts in your Start menu's Games folder. These shortcuts often do not get deleted or installed by game install/remove scripts. NCP actually looks in several places.

For Windows 7 64-bit, two of the file paths I'm talking about is:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games\

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games\

I think it looks in other places too, but I don't know where. You will have to figure out for yourself where it looks in Vista and WinXP. When I had WinXP, I remember finding that some place in All Users was another place NCP looked for games shortcuts.

 

[Xeth]

I had the same problem, here's the fix: http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=76504

 

[bigdogchris]

I had the same problem, here's the fix: http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=76504

It's not a custom profile. I looked at that registry key and did not find the 'virtual store'. I did find this key though HKEY_USERS\"usersid"\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak which has my custom profiles, but did not find the one that will not go away (NWN2.exe) which is a default Nvidia profile.