They are only used during installation of the Nvidia graphics driver. It is actually a Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB so every MB does count!įile size of the temporary Nvidia driver installation folder Removal instructionsĪll of these files and folders files are 100% safe to remove. The impact: 5.2 GBĪs you can see I currently have 5214 MB of installation files on my C drive. Screenshot of the nvidia temporary driver installation folder. Reinstalling the same version just overwrites the same directory. Each driver version has it’s own sub folder. When you run the NVIDIA Geforce Driver installer it will extract all files to a temporary directory. Location 1 – installer extraction directory What is it? Video tutorialĪ video tutorial will be placed here later this week. Since then Nvidia introduced a major update of the Geforce Experience software. Unfortunately new Geforce Experiences still clutters your storage device, it just uses different file paths. GameplayInside shows you how to clean up old NVIDIA driver files to save disk space!Ģ017 update: This guide was originally released in 2014. There are now three locations that get filled with unused files. However, with the introduction of the NVIDIA Geforce Experience it has gotten even worse. Did you know that each time you installed a Geforce driver update the old files get left behind on your system? This phenomenon has existed for years.

How to safely uninstall nvidia drivers