We all do it I'm sure now and again but after noticing subtle stuttering had been happening that I had been ignoring for many weeks or months I decided to update to the latest NV driver, and the current one wasn't very old.  I decided to do the R&R GPU driver, clear the DX caches, install a new GPU driver, and then reset NV Control Panel per your preferences.  Since DX caches are associated with the specific driver it's useful to follow this simple sequence:

1.  Delete each Nvidia driver entry including driver, PhysX, Geforce Experience.

2.  Reboot

3.  Go to Disk Cleanup to get rid of those DX shaders then the other larger repository which is here for me:

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxxx\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache

4.  Reboot

5.  Install the latest or whatever GPU driver you're going to use.

This frequently improves stuttering issues in my experience...but I forget to do it more than I should 😕

 

 

Edited September 3, 20241 yr by Noel

Whilst videocard drivers are a common culprit, It's also a good idea to go to your motherboard manufacturers website and update your chipset drivers and soundcard drivers as the windows versions are often outdated.  I had to do this following the w11 24H2 insider update.

Use DDU to delete the old driver before you install a new one, then will all NVIDIA folders be wiped out from your HD, cache including, all Nvidia related folders and files will be deleted, even from the registry, it will be like when you inserted the card for the first time.

Edited September 3, 20241 yr by Ixoye