Hi,
Thank you for the insightful replies, I did some snooping and concluded something similar to @Nielius. Something is out of order with the stable branch nvidia driver. To resolve my issue i simply switched branches to unstable and installed the unstable branch Nvidia driver 565.77 which has cuda 12.7 support, then i switched back to stable. Be careful when doing this if you don’t know what you’re doing since
Unstable is synced several times a day with Arch package releases. Only a subset of Arch packages are modified to suit Manjaro. Those that use Unstable need to have the skills to get themselves out of trouble when they move their system to this branch.
(tl;dr things might break)
Nevertheless for posterity, you can follow this link, to see how switching branches works, and you can load any new drivers by either just rebooting the system, or (doing it properly) by killing X/Wayland, unloading the Nvidia drivers with rmmod and then load them back in with modprobe.
This doesn’t identify the problem of course but it’s at least a workaround and it functions well for my purposes.
Thank you all very much for your help.
Best regards,
Wnabee