Geforce drivers supposedly downloading but not installing, and also control panel and nvidia not running in the background

all in all, my laptop's extremely old.
ive had this tin bucket for about 4 years, my battery's dead, laptop fans et cetera et cetera
this past week ive been having a problem with both experience and the geforce app.
ever since version 561.09 came out, i havent been able to download the driver itself.

i'll post screenshots cause taking a video would just take too long.

look at the time.

https://preview.redd.it/qsg5h7htd6qd1.png?width=1537&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d9e4a576b97fde3f45bcfa25bb0d1c28c33c203

https://preview.redd.it/60yhwgoyd6qd1.png?width=1386&format=png&auto=webp&s=f832e663ef75d1548d5043a7e5a9be6b313022c1

https://preview.redd.it/jgjgml08e6qd1.png?width=1356&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbb6a43db2e7a723866494a67871dfe9cf50fae8

https://preview.redd.it/z7ci9rvbe6qd1.png?width=1533&format=png&auto=webp&s=1dc134db5fe522ed98b69afe76822183875a44cb

as you can see, driver "supposedly" downloaded, though it still begs to say "no driver installed"

i assure you, this is NOT a visual bug

Neon White's getting me about 10-15 fps, hades at 1920x1080 is giving me 30, i cant imagine what dark souls 3 or elden ring would be giving. Currently i can only play games that're pc ported mobile games or games at the lowest possible resolution

i saw ONE person in this sub that had the same problem as i do, though no fixes or anything given

i own a GTX 1050 Ti, which is still in support as of 2024

i tried completely erasing any trace of nvidia and redownloading the driver that way, didnt work

DDU also didnt work out

all i need is someone that knows why this is happening and how i can fix it

oh also

https://preview.redd.it/h4c1mecif6qd1.png?width=225&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9305a776bd476805585a6854efc9835a74a47cc

no nvidia app or control panel in the background :3

control panel isnt opening either, so

yeah