UniversalPauseButton VS TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker

You can try the UniversalPauseButton. It's a piece of software designed to pause execution of a program, games specifically because the developer wanted to be able to pause games during unskippable cut scenes. In practice he does it by halting execution of the game process.

try this : https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton

I will say as a parent I don't play anything that doesn't have a pause button... Though now every game has one ;) https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton

if you are on PC try Universal Pause Button. The software is kinda old, but still works. Or perhaps the upcoming Game Pauser.

See also: Universal Pause Button.

Because sometimes I wanna get up and get a snack mid fight. Also being afk at a bonfire means your PC is wasting a ton of energy rendering a game that you're not even playing. Something like the Universal Pause Button is super nice to have imo.

I use this program to do my GPU updates. I keep GeForce installed just for the recording features but this tool makes updating so much simpler, and much quicker than GeForce ever did

You could use https://github.com/ElPumpo/TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker, that'll pop up a little window once it finds a newer driver was released.

Also Tiny Nvidia Update Checker. Checks for updates and prompts you when there's a new version.

Nvidia Tiny Update Checker

Ya check this out https://github.com/ElPumpo/TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker

I don't install Nvidia's driver package because it's full of garbage I don't want, like geforce experience and telemetry. this handy tool lets me just install driver updates without any extra junk.