Ah, you have a GM206 card (i.e. a GeForce 900 series aka Maxwell). The latest Nvidia drivers for Fedora 44 don’t support that - you can install a different package which is locked to a driver version that does support your hardware. (Process for doing so described here.)
So that would explain the Nvidia driver failing to initialise, and falling back to nouveau.
Do you have it mapped in /etc/fstab? If so, I wonder if removing it (and just mounting it in Linux when you need it) would improve things.