So, a clean install of Windows 10 Pro. Installed pretty quickly we've also let windows updates run. Then we went on with installing nVidia drivers and got hit by this, apparently common issue ...

Windows DCH (Declarative Componentized Hardware supported apps) Drivers are driver packages that will install and run on Universal Windows Platform (UWP) based editions of Windows 11 /10.

If you download a Game Ready Driver from Nvidia and discover you now have to get the Nvidia Control Panel from Microsoft, don't worry. There's still a way to get a standard driver with the NVCP ...

If you download a Game Ready Driver from Nvidia and discover you now have to get the Nvidia Control Panel from Microsoft, don't worry.

Functionally, there is no difference between Nvidia DCH and standard drivers. When directly comparing the two driver types, the DCH driver package has a smaller size and a faster installation time ...