The driver situation is a mess—but a solvable one. Use the community-proven 47.89 leak, enable your iGPU, and accept that you’ll spend an afternoon wrestling with driver signatures. If that sounds like fun, you’ll be rewarded with shockingly good performance for a card that costs less than a pizza.
NVIDIA explicitly blocked the P106 (and its cousin, the P104-100) in its standard drivers. The official drivers only recognize cards with display outputs. You have to force-feed it modified drivers. There is no "official" driver for gaming on a P106-100. You have two community-driven paths. Option 1: The Modified INF Method (Most Common) This involves taking an official NVIDIA driver and editing the .inf (information) file to add the P106-100’s hardware ID. This tells the installer, "Yes, this card is allowed." nvidia p106-100 drivers
Here’s a blog post tailored for tech enthusiasts, miners, and budget PC builders. It covers the tricky reality of getting the NVIDIA P106-100 (a mining card) working for gaming or compute tasks. The NVIDIA P106-100 is a fascinating piece of silicon history. Built on the GP106 GPU (the same core as a GTX 1060 6GB), it was never meant for gamers. It was a dedicated mining card—no display outputs, no official Game Ready support. The driver situation is a mess—but a solvable one