WinRAR <7 failing to extract drivers

[lurmirari]

System: Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 (64bit)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Never had any issues with TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker but it's been failing to install the latest driver. Error happens with minimal installation, both with the Install Now and the Download Only, happens when trying to extract the driver contents.
I'm not sure if it's an issue with the driver package itself, or with the 1.22.1 version of the checker, so here's what it says on the terminal window (before it closes without installing nor unpacking):

Extracting drivers . . . Unhandled exception. System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\lur\Desktop\temp'.
  at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator`1.CreateDirectoryHandle(String path, Boolean ignoreNotFound)
  at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator`1.Init()
  at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerable`1..ctor(String directory, FindTransform transform, EnumerationOptions options, Boolean isNormalized)
  at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerableFactory.UserDirectories(String directory, String expression, Enumeration Options options)
  at System.IO.Directory.Internal EnumeratePaths(String path, String searchPattern, SearchTarget searchTarget, EnumerationOptions options)
  at System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, EnumerationOptions enumerationOptions)
  at TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker.Handlers.ComponentHandler.ParseComponentData(String driverRootPath) in C:\Users\Samuel\Documents\GitHub\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\Handlers\ComponentHandler.cs:line 14
  at TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker.MainConsole.MakeInstaller(Boolean silent, String savePath, String fileName) in C:\Users\Samuel\Documents\GitHub\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\MainConsole.cs:line 1021
  at TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker.MainConsole.PromptAvailableUpdate(DriverMetadata metadata) in C:\Users\Samuel\Documents\GitHub\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\MainConsole.cs:line 794
  at TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker.MainConsole.Main(String[] args) in C:\Users\Samuel\Documents\GitHub\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\MainConsole.cs:line 291

[ElPumpo]

Hi, and thanks for reporting this issue.
I will be investigating it soon

[Xebax6]

I got the same issue.

Windows 10 Pro 22H2

Nvidia RTX 2060

[ElPumpo]

Guys, can you please show a full screenshot & dump of TNUC. Make sure you run it with the --debug argument.

Show me the absolute file path its trying to extract to.
What extracting library are you using?

[RubikoOne]

I'm having the same issue

Console Output

TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker v1.22.1

Arg: --debug
Arg: --force-dl

configFile: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Hawaii\_Beach\TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker\app.config
CHECK\_UPDATE: true
MINIMAL\_INSTALL: true
DRIVER\_TYPE: grd

Verifying internet connection . . . OK!

Searching for Update . . . OK!
offlineVer: 1.22.1
onlineVer:  1.22.1

Retrieving GPU information . . . OK!
gpuId:       964
osId:        135
isDchDriver: True
downloadURL: [https://international.download.nvidia.com/Windows/576.80/576.80-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe](https://international.download.nvidia.com/Windows/576.80/576.80-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe)
pdfURL:      [https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/576.80/576.80-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf](https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/576.80/576.80-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf)
releaseDate: 17/06/2025
downloadFileSize:  829 MiB
OfflineGPUVersion: 1
OnlineGPUVersion:  576.80
There is a new GPU driver available to download!

Extracting drivers . . .

At that point it crashes trying to access C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\576.80\Temp

[TBrauns]

@ElPumpo I believe the script is trying to access a temp folder inside of the version-folder.

C:\Users\Atreides\AppData\Local\Temp\576.80 exists, but the script tries to call C:\Users\Atreides\AppData\Local\Temp\576.80\temp which does not.

[lurmirari]

This is what I get on my end. Not sure about the extracting library, I do know I have WinRAR installed and that's what it's been using as far as I know.

EDIT: I tried extracting it manually using WinRAR and it couldn't open the executable file, so I tried uninstalling WinRAR and installing 7-Zip, and it works now.
It's weird though, because I haven't updated WinRAR recently (as in, it's not because of a difference on how WinRAR operates), and it could extract the executable before without problems, maybe NVIDIA changed how they package the executable with this last update and that's what's causing the problem? If that's the case, I'm not sure what 7-Zip does differently so that it's still able to extract it.

[ElPumpo]

Oh, guys, are you all using WinRAR? If so, please show me the version.

[TBrauns]

My WinRAR is 6.23.

[ElPumpo]

My WinRAR is 6.23.

Great. Can you please update to v7.11? And try again, please

https://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0

[RubikoOne]

Updating to 7.11 fixed it for me

[TBrauns]

This does appear to have resolved the issue!

[ElPumpo]

Interesting. It appears TNUC uses a newer -op command line argument for WinRAR, that is not present in 6.xx
In fact, this exact issue has been reported before.

A different solution than telling everyone to update WinRAR (which you should, anyway), would be NOT using the arugment. I will investigate this in my spare time.

Also, monitoring the exit code of each extract library should be a thing.
Canceling, or failed extractions, should not continue.

For now, it's low priority.

Solution: update WinRAR > https://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0

[lurmirari]

Huh, it appears WinRAR was one of the programs I'd neglected to keep up to date, as indeed my version was 6.24, nowhere near the current version. For now I've moved on to 7-Zip, but it's good to know that updating WinRAR would also fix it. Thanks for the quick replies!