'Took me months to work this out': Redditor explains how Windows 11 can end up stripping out the GPU driver on…
- Windows 11 can remove a discrete GPU driver as part of its clean-up routines, as shown on Reddit
- This can happen if the laptop has been in Eco mode for an extended period
- Because the GPU is effectively gated off from the system, the driver is marked as unused and therefore deleted by the OS during clean-up – but you can stop this from happening
Apparently, Windows 11 can end up stripping away the discrete GPU driver from your laptop in certain scenarios if the OS is left to run in Eco mode for a long time – and that's a distinct annoyance if you own a gaming laptop, as per a report on Reddit.
Wccftech spotted a Redditor who posted about their Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop with a discrete Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, and how Windows turned off that GPU.
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