Surface Book: Get better NVIDIA GPU drivers with this fix

Reddit user dalingrin has used some clever thinking to soup-up the NVIDIA GPU drivers on his Surface Book. Thanks to his efforts, you can too.

It’s a relatively simple process, as detailed below:

1. Download NVIDIA 359.00 drivers here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/95561
2. Download these modded INF files here: https://mega.nz/#!qR8TRSQZ!84Ygh4lu5JO4mJ80_5R26gEBBgHXhrOMwZd2cnCGGKA
3. Extract the downloaded NVIDIA drivers to a folder using something like 7Zip
4. Extract the modded INF files to the “Display.Driver” folder in the extracted NVIDIA drivers.
5. In order to install we must disable driver signature enforcement. To temporarily disable driver signature enforcement follow these directions: http://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how-to-disable-driver-signature-verification-on-64-bit-windows-8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/
6. Go to Device Manager -> Display Adapters -> NVIDIA Geforce GPU -> Properties.
7. Go to the Driver tab then click “Update Driver…”
8. Then choose “Browse my computer for driver software” and point it to the Display.Driver folder containing the modded INF files.EDIT: jeffmk1 had to do this slightly differently by choosing “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer” and then selecting “Have Disk”. Link to comment
9. Profit. The Device Manager will now call the GPU “NVIDIA GeForce 940M.” This name is entirely arbitrary and can be whatever you want it to be. It has no real world effect.

Dalingrin says he’s able to deatch his tablet without issues, and that games like Star Wars: Battlefront and Fallout 4 perform much better with the update.

If you’re keen on updating your NVIDIA drivers, you might want to read through a bit of the entire reddit thread first. As always, update at your own risk.