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Settings > Nvidia Driver

For anyone running into issues with the NVIDIA Driver plugin on Unraid — especially if you’ve got a 5060 Ti — make sure you’re using the open-source drivers, as recommended. If you’re still getting the “can’t communicate with driver” error, here’s what finally fixed it for me after many hours of troubleshooting: Ensure your motherboard BIOS is on the latest version In BIOS, switch to UEFI-only mode (no Legacy or hybrid). Confirm your Unraid drive boot is using UEFI by having the folder called “EFI” NOT “EFI-“ My boot flash was originally made back in 2018, and that turned out to be part of the issue since the UEFI boot files were old and incompatible. I ended up downloading the latest Unraid install and replacing the EFI folder on my flash drive with the new one (so that I didn’t need to use another drive and I’m lazy). After those steps, everything worked perfectly. It’s a pretty niche problem, but hopefully this saves someone else a few hours of frustration.

@gridrunner Thanks for the great concise video. What is the ideal way to backup existing shares? Is it to create separate hosts in rclone and point to the existing shares in unraid?