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Fresh Install High Sierra 10.13.6 - nVidia Driver?

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ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 ITX
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i7-7700K
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GTX 1080 Ti
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  1. MacBook Air
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  1. iOS
Hi all,
I have a fresh install of macOS High Sierra with updates, I did the updates through Apple Software Update and rebooted twice to get both updates. I believe it's running the newest update as of March 24, 2020 https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2034?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

However, when I view About This Mac it says I am on Version 10.13.6 (17G66).

I haven't installed any nVidia drivers yet. But when I try to install the newest version (WebDriver-387.10.10.10.40.135.pkg) it says that I'm not on a compatible system. Does anyone know if I can get this driver working on my fresh system? My graphics card is a 1080 Ti.

Thanks
 
Alright so I found a post where I can try this in Terminal, so I did so:

bash <(curl -s https://vulgo.github.io/webdriver) 387.10.10.10.40.113
I rebooted, and the display appears to be working

So afterwards, I went ahead by updating to the newest driver:
bash <(curl -s https://vulgo.github.io/webdriver) 387.10.10.10.40.135
Rebooted and it appears to still be working, so this is good to see.

One question:
How can I check if I am indeed actually on 387.10.10.10.40.135? I don't have the nVidia Control Panel in System Preferences, or in the top bar. It seems fast already but not sure if there is anything else I can do to improve performance.

Thanks
 
You won't have any video acceleration if you aren't using the web drivers. Easiest way to tell is to click Launchpad and if it loads smoothly with transparency then you have acceleration. It will be very obvious with lots of tearing if you do not.
 
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