daemonu.exe
NVIDIA GeForce Experience by NVIDIA Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 4.11.9.1 |
| MD5: | a9afe5b0648c8d7a411a72d8222f7f6e |
| SHA1: | b05d7bb431949c5b44daa466fd5b8f30c60886f6 |
| SHA256: | a58af8c615d97c769da778d56f7e6999aaeb577c82c65455d3b2a8ed5b742777 |
What is daemonu.exe?
NVIDIA Settings Update Manager is part of the GeForce brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia which expands GPU functionality beyond the traditional rasterization of 3D graphics, to turn it into a high-performance computing device able to execute arbitrary programming code in the same way a CPU does.
About daemonu.exe (from NVIDIA Corporation)
“Want to know the best settings to play your games? GeForce Experience will figure it out for you. GeForce Experience connects you to NVIDIA’s cloud datacenter to download optimal game settings tailore”
Details
| File name: | daemonu.exe |
| Publisher: | NVIDIA Corporation |
| Product name: | NVIDIA GeForce Experience |
| Description: | NVIDIA Settings Update Manager |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\nvidia corporation\nvidia update core\daemonu.exe |
| File version: | 4.11.9.1 |
| Size: | 1.74 MB (1,826,592 bytes) |
| Build date: | 5/16/2013 4:21 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | NVIDIA Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, February 9, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“NVIDIA Update keeps your PC up-to-date with the latest NVIDIA drivers by notifying you when a new driver is available and directing you to the driver on www.nvidia.com. Starting with R275 drivers, NVIDIA Update also provides automatic updates for game and program profiles, including SLI profiles. Once installed on your PC, NVIDIA Update scans your hardware configuration and your current driver version to determine the appropriate driver...”
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- nvUpdatusService
- 'nvUpdatusService' (NVIDIA Update Service Daemon)
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Update Core\daemonu.exe'
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
[UDP] listens on port 48000
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00065248% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00041678% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00023569% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 286,596 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 383,723/sec | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.99 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 13.19 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 7.08 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.99 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 86.12 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 97.18 MB | |
| Working set: | 11.26 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 15.21 MB | |
| Page faults: | 24,656/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.23 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 12/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 27.42 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 8/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 33.15 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 170/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 364 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\nvidia corporation\nvidia update core\daemonu.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | nvUpdatusService |
| Display name: | nvUpdatusService |
| Description: | “NVIDIA Settings Update Manager service, used to check new updates from NVIDIA server.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00781798% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00524265% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00257534% | |
| CPU cycles: | 132,303/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 276 KB | |
| daemonu.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00086484% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00062101% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00024383% | |
| CPU cycles: | 87,100/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.76 MB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00027947% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009316% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00018631% | |
| CPU cycles: | 9,021/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
21.98% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
18.68% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
13.19% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
9.89% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
8.79% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
6.59% |
|
| Windows 8 |
4.40% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
4.40% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
3.30% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
3.30% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
2.20% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
2.20% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
1.10% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 26.14% of NVIDIA GeForce Experience.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
26.17% |
|
| Dell |
18.69% |
|
| Lenovo |
11.21% |
|
| Acer |
10.28% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
6.54% |
|
| Sony |
5.61% |
|
| Toshiba |
5.61% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
4.67% |
|
| Intel |
3.74% |
|
| Alienware |
2.80% |
|
| MSI |
1.87% |
|
| American Megatrends |
1.87% |
|
| Sahara |
0.93% |
|
