Name: NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers
Brand: NVIDIA
Rating: 4.8 (1509 reviews)

NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers 572.83 WHQL

Latest

March 19th, 2025 - What's New

806.1 MB

Win 11, 10 (64-bit)

572.83-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe

MD5:

E4FEFFBC9BD853371F904B536E7DA559

SHA1:

82DD2DE11E1F5D6B7D5A007F8EFC6FEC7B1A965F

SHA256:

30422FCC4EAC0703BDDB7C94FE73F71107114EB461D286B65ADA2D92440AD2BF

MD5 / SHA1 / SHA256 Checksum

NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers 474.44 WHQL

(for GeForce 600 / Kepler, Windows 8/7)

June 26th, 2023

707.7 MB

Win 11, 10 (64-bit)

474.44-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe

MD5:

3C7C7BB1F315394CD463BF4AA5E71848

SHA1:

73E9C0902919390D8BFA7129C03290A569A04ED6

SHA256:

AF34775CEDFB4FA7AF60339160B6151A15A402D95A737100C75DC3EB10DF9B70

MD5 / SHA1 / SHA256 Checksum
484.1 MB

Win 8, 7 (64-bit)

474.44-desktop-win8-win7-64bit-international.exe

MD5:

E6C02AF6222DF207DF232760E5EFD208

SHA1:

53C87ED059B45A40A2E3B2C1E497BA1CD14282D6

SHA256:

F010ACCE679F513C90A3598834DAAEC3890113E67609A44BD3F18F85D75515FF

MD5 / SHA1 / SHA256 Checksum

NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers 391.35 WHQL

(for GeForce 500 / Fermi)

March 27th, 2018 - What's New

445.4 MB

Win 10 (64-bit)

391.35-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe

MD5:

293983BD10D31CA6A3E6A5046AFB1A90

SHA1:

C0B5C638A42C51F218400AE3EB6CE30B39CC3325

SHA256:

D352AD886B250482385AE1B597CF1BE301E2E3378567E10FEB8942FEC0C964C2

MD5 / SHA1 / SHA256 Checksum
347.4 MB

Win 10 (32-bit)

391.35-desktop-win10-32bit-international-whql.exe

MD5:

F4FE3BC703D04CB11D38904BEDDB4721

SHA1:

4F151CCD58C93BA4227B7EBF2769991B305B2AA4

SHA256:

5128180228D63D550869D615D9D165EABBC1BC1CE1C5A8235466E16D4867CB4E

MD5 / SHA1 / SHA256 Checksum
403.5 MB

Win 8, 7 (64-bit)

391.35-desktop-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql.exe

MD5:

0B704B3C5A529F96B07BB455849E96CB

SHA1:

A965B65F8E809CD08ED05A9A21AE589044C55D4E

SHA256:

7DD05B645433129B86CED17FCD8D29BF98ECA2F3AC4834C19F24FB1161EA9E5C

MD5 / SHA1 / SHA256 Checksum
329.1 MB

Win 8, 7 (32-bit)

391.35-desktop-win8-win7-32bit-international-whql.exe

MD5:

076B40B629926DEBCBC49263F6CBF43C

SHA1:

9E9D89A3A9D93940C11993558B477F9BFE5CCDD2

SHA256:

1687319094FBCF7BB3E45FFA713916D94EBD9C838672720558553132BECD2AC3

MD5 / SHA1 / SHA256 Checksum

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Publisher: NVIDIA

Downloaded: 3,018,656 times (1,641.0 TB)

Download the latest driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, to ensure you have the best gaming experience and get the fastest performance.

This NVIDIA GeForce driver download supports:

GeForce RTX 4090, RTX 40 Super, RTX 4080, RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4070, RTX 4060 Ti, RTX 4060
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 3090, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3060
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, RTX 2070, RTX 2060, GTX 1660, GTX 1650
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1070, GTX 1060, GTX 1050, GT 1030
and many more, including older models

If you want to customize your NVIDIA driver installation beyond what the official NVIDIA driver allows, check out our NVCleanstall software. It lets you individually exclude various unwanted components, like Telemetry, Stereo 3D Glasses support and GeForce Experience.

Version History

572.83 WHQL (March 19th, 2025)

Hardware Support

GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti notebooks.

Game Ready

Half-Life 2 RTX demo
inZOI
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide DLSS 4
Assassin's Creed Shadows
Control's new DLSS and tech update
The Last of Us Part II Remastered

NVIDIA App

61 new and updated NVIDIA app DLSS overrides.

Fixed Application Issues

[VRED 2026] Optix compile error with R570 branch drivers [5122360]
[Derivative TouchDesigner ] Application stability issues [4606316]

Fixed Issues

[Derivative TouchDesigner ] Application stability issues [4606316]
[GeForce RTX 5080/5090] Graphics cards may not run at full speeds on system reboot when overclocked [5088034]
[GeForce RTX 50 series] GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs crashes with black screen [5120886]
Some NVIDIA Control Panel / NVIDIA App settings changes immediately get reset or give error [5160516]
PC may bugcheck IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL 0xa during gameplay with HDR enabled [5091576]
PC may boot to a black screen when connected via DisplayPort with certain monitors [5131002]

Known Issues

Changing state of "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area" does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]

572.70 WHQL (March 5th, 2025)

Hardware Support

RTX 5070 Ti

Game Ready

FragPunk DLSS 4
Grand Theft Auto V DLSS and ray tracing update

Fixed

PC may boot to a black screen when connected via DisplayPort with certain monitors [5131002]

Known Issues

Changing state of "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area" does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
PC may bugcheck IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL 0xa during gameplay with HDR enabled [5091576]

572.60 WHQL (February 27th, 2025)

Game Ready

Naraka Bladepoint DLSS 4
Monster Hunter Wilds

G-Sync Monitor Support

Acer XV272K V5
AOC 24G41E
AOC 24G4H
AOC AG276FK
AOC AG276QSD
AOC AG325QZ
AOC AG326UD
AOC AG346UCD
AOC PD34
AOC Q25G4S
AOC Q27G2SXE
AOC Q27G4 D
AOC Q27G42XE
AOC Q27G4XM
ASUS XG258QMG
ASUS XG27UCDM
ASUS XG27UCDMG
Dell 3425DW
LG 32GX870A
LG 34GX900A
LG 34GX90SA
LG 39GX90SA
LG 45GX950A
LG 45GX90SA
Philips 24M2N3200L
Philips 25M2N5500U
Philips 27M2N3200F
Philips 27M2N5500P
Philips 27M2N5500LQ

Fixed Gaming Bugs

[SteamVR] Some apps may display stutter on GeForce RTX 50 series [5088118]

Fixed General Bugs

[Adobe Substance 3D Sampler] Crashing at launch with R570 branch drivers [5083712]
[Adobe Substance 3D Painter] Texture corruption in baking results from GPU raytracing [5091781]
[VRay 6] Unexpected Low Performance on CUDA Vpath Tests for Blackwell GPUs [4915763]
[GeForce RTX 50 series] Various black screen issues [5088957] [5100062] [5089089]
Audio issues when GPU is connected via DisplayPort 1.4 w/ DSC at very high refresh rates [5104848]
Applications may display slight image corruption on pixelated 2D patterns [5071565]

Known Issues

Changing state of "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area" does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
PC may bugcheck IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL 0xa during gameplay with HDR enabled [5091576]

572.47 WHQL (February 20th, 2025)

Hardware Support

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Game Ready

Marvel Rivals DLSS 4

Fixed

Driver stability issues when waking up monitor from extended sleep time [5089560]

Known Issues

Changing state of "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area" does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
[VRay 6] Unexpected Low Performance on CUDA Vpath Tests for Blackwell GPUs [4915763]

526.98 WHQL (November 16th, 2022)

Game Ready

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Warhammer 40,0000: Darktide
WRC Generations – The FIA WRC Official
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (DLAA)

Technology

Introduces support for the GeForce RTX 4080
Introduces DLSS Frame Generation support for VSync when G-SYNC is enabled
Introduces support for HDR10+ GAMING standard
NVIDIA RTX IO Support For Microsoft DirectStorage 1.1 & Vulkan Extension
Adds support for CUDA 12

G-Sync

AOC AG275QX
AOC AG325QX
AOC PD27S
AOC Q32G3WG3
ASUS PG42UQ
ASUS VG249QM1A
ASUS XG32UQ
Corsair 32QHD240
Eve ES07D02
Philips 27M1N5900
Philips TV FTV OLED907
Philips TV FTV OLED937

GFE Settings

A Plague Tale: Requiem
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Dakar Desert Rally
Diablo Immortal
Marauders
PC Building Simulator 2
UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection

Fixed

G-SYNC logo is not displayed in the LG OLED TV menu when connected to GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs [3849595]
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection may crash when launched on a GeForce GTX 10 series GPU [3841379]
[QNIX QX2710/Fujitsu Siemens SL23T-1/Dell UP2715K/ HP Z27q] Unable to select the native resolution of certain monitors from the Windows display settings [3833829][3833632][3689061]
[Daz Studio] Application crashes after updating to latest driver when trying to run simulation [3838022]
Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) service may report significantly higher GPU usage on certain PC configurations [3830387/3739997]
Maxon - Cinema4D + Redshift3D vidmemory allocations cause TDR or Driver Crash [3659104]

Known Issues

Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
[DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
Older versions of Minecraft Java Edition show corruption on screen [3870232]
MSI Afterburner is not prioritizing GPU temp limit over power when selected in app [3858911]
[RTX 40 series] Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition may show random screen flash during gameplay [3793355]
[GeForce RTX 4090] Watch Dogs 2 may display flickering when staring at the sky [3858016]
Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]

526.47 WHQL (October 27th, 2022)

Hardware Support

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory
GeForce RTX 3060 with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory

Game Ready

Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Victoria 3
WRC Generations
DLSS 3 in F1 22

GFE Settings

Broken Pieces
Construction Simulator
Crossfire HD
Disney Dreamlight Valley
FIFA 23
NBA 2K23
Overwatch 2
Shatterline

Fixed

[Cyberpunk 2077] In game map may display corruption [3829994]
Dell XPS 9560 may crash and reboot when using desktop applications [3737715]
[RTX 30 series] Lower performance in Minecraft Java Edition [3702953]
165Hz refresh rate option not availlable on Samsung Odyssey Ark monitor [3840122]
When using two or more monitors, GeForce Experience Shadowplay/Gamestream may select the wrong monitor [200633408]
Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled upon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot. [3624218]

Known Issues

Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
[DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
Maxon - Cinema4D + Redshift3D vidmemory allocations cause TDR or Driver Crash [3659104]
RedCine-X Pro potential crash while working with effects during video playback [3809401]
Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) service may report higher GPU usage on some RTX 30-series configurations [3830387]
Workaround: disable Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling from the Windows Settings
VTube Studio may crash to black screen [3838158]
Temporary workaround: Delete the file VTube Studio Data\Plugins\x86 64\GPUManagementPlugin.dll
[Forza Horizon 5] Some PC configurations may see rainbow like artifacts in game after extended gameplay [3685123]
[Daz Studio] Application crashes after updating to latest driver when trying to run simulation [3838022]
[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II] Flashing corruption can be seen randomly while playing the game. [3835099]
When both NVIDIA Low Latency Mode is set to Ultra in the NVIDIA Control Panel and NVIDIA Reflex is set to "Boost + Enabled" in a game, the graphics card will not return to idle clock speeds after exiting the game until the PC is rebooted. [3846389]

517.48 WHQL (September 27th, 2022)

Gaming

Game Ready for Overwatch 2
NVIDIA DLSS in Microsoft Flight Simulator

G-Sync Monitors

Sony INZONE M9
Sony INZONE M3
HP HyperX Armada 27
HP HyperX Armada 25

Fixed

[Advanced Optimus] Brightness setting is not getting applied correctly on certain Lenovo notebooks in dedicated GPU mode [3795453]
[Windows 10][Advanced Optimus]: On certain notebook configurations, "NVIDIA GPU only" option does not persist on system reboot [3794921]
[Adobe Illustrator] Using Reduce Noise with Ray Tracing appears pixelated [3709309]
[Windows 11] Chaos Vantage fails to start when NVLink is enabled [3652930]
[Adobe Photoshop] Resolves random crashes in DirectML.dll [3749935]
[Fusion 360] Addresses performance issues when using variable refresh rate monitors [3724711]
On rare occasions, video playback in browser may result in bugcheck code: 0x116 [3508109]
[Jurassic World Evolution 2] Game may display shadow flickering [3682201]
Native resolution is not available on the Samsung U28R55/ ASUS VG249Q1A monitors [3703073] [3768670]
[Windows 11] Some UWP apps may display lag when G-SYNC is set to "Enable G-SYNC for windowed and full screen mode" and "Vertical sync" is changed from the default value [3753141]
Resolves incorrect wording for NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> Shader Cache Size in German language [3766571]
External displays connected to certain Razer notebooks via USB-C/Thunderbolt docks/dongles are not detected [3690673]
[Reallusion Hub] App will crash when launched on PC using a CPU with 32+ logical processors [3738397]

Known Issues

Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled upon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot. [3624218]
[DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
[RTX 30 series] Lower performance in Minecraft Java Edition. [3702953]
[Forza Horizon 5] Rainbow like artifacts in game after driver update. [3685123]
[Marvel Spider-Man Remastered] Cutscene edges may appear blurry when DLSS is enabled on an ultra-wide monitor [3734989]
Dell XPS 9560 may crash and reboot when using desktop applications [3737715]

516.94 WHQL (August 9th, 2022)

Game Ready for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered which includes support for the latest gaming technologies including NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA DLAA, NVIDIA HBAO+, and upgraded ray tracing effects. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest releases and updates including Madden NFL 23 and the beta for SUPER PEOPLE.

Fixed Issues

[Apex Legends] Improves gameplay stability. [3661210]
[Red Dead Redemption 2] Performance improvement when using DLSS is lower compared to previous drivers. [3700239]
[Overwatch] Game may freeze on launching a match. [3696921]
[MSI GE66 Raider 10UG/MSI GE76 Raider 10UH] Windows brightness setting does not work when notebook is in dedicated GPU mode. [3693207] [3693211]
[Chivalry 2] Toggling DLSS preset may cause gameplay to shimmer or show black rectangle. [3692024]
[Dungeons 3] Game will crash on startup. [3691274]
[Destiny 2] Game may randomly freeze after launching game or during gameplay. [3685638]
[Prepar3D] Light sources display flashing black boxes. [3684206]
[Xbox Application] Windowed G-SYNC engages and cause stutter/ sluggish performance in Xbox app. [3674419]
[NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: With the GPU connected to an HDMI 2.1 audio/video receiver, audio may drop out when playing back Dolby Atmos. [3345965]

Open Issues

[RTX 30 series] PC monitor may not wake from display sleep when GPU is also connected to an HDMI 2.1 TV, and the TV is powered off. [3645633]
Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled upon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot. [3624218]
[DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
[RTX 30 series] Lower performance in Minecraft Java Edition. [3702953]
External display may not be detected when connected via USB-C on certain Razer notebooks. [3690673]
[Forza Horizon 5] Rainbow like artifacts in game after driver update. [3685123]

511.65 WHQL (February 1st, 2022)

Game Ready

Dying Light 2 Stay Human
Sifu

Hardware Support

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti notebooks

New Features

Security updates - see Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - February 2022, which is available on the release date of this software and is listed on the NVIDIA Product Security page.
OpenCL Vulkan Interop
New external memory and semaphore sharing extensions provide a generic framework that enables OpenCL to import external memory and semaphore handles to synchronize with the external runtime, coordinating the use of shared memory.
NVIDIA OpenCL Compiler Upgrade
The embedded OpenCL Just-In-Time compiler will offer an opt-in version utilizing CLANG 7.0 and NVVM 7.0 components, providing support for 16-bit floating point and 128-bit integer data types.
Added Dead by Daylight- EGS Version application profile.

Fixed

[Windows 11][Far Cry 6]: Geometric corruption occurs in the benchmark and in gameplay. [3441540]
Multiple apps report stutter (or light to poor hitching) due to allocation creation. [3426466]
[Notebook]: With Advanced Optimus configured in dGPU mode, notebook will display a black screen. [3502766]
Some 3440x1440 monitors may display a black screen when selecting a DLDSR resolution. [3502478]
[DirectX 12]: GeForce Experience Freestyle filters may cause game to flicker. [3496529]
[Forza Horizon]: The game freezes when applying livery or vinyl to certain cars when ray tracing is enabled. [3506220/3506340]

Windows 10/11 Issues

[NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: With the GPU connected to an HDMI 2.1 audio/video receiver, audio may drop out when playing back Dolby Atmos. [3345965]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
[NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
[Call of Duty: Vanguard]: The game may display random corruption. [3503111]
[Battlefield 2042]: The game may display color flashes on the screen. [3503086]
DVI monitor EDID may not be detected correctly on certain monitors. [3502752]

511.23 WHQL (January 14th, 2022)

Game Ready for

God of War
The Anacrusis
Hitman III Year 2

Gaming Technology Supported

Includes support for NVIDIA DLDSR (Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution)

New Features and Other Changes

Added support for Windows 11 Dynamic Refresh Rate.
Added support for CUDA 11.6.
The NVIDIA OpenCL driver has added support for new provisional extension specifications released by Khronos.
Added new OpenCL compiler technology as an opt-in feature.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Detroit Become Human]: Random stuttering/freezing occurs in the game. [3389250]
Flicker/disappearing text when 12-bit color is used [3358884]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998] To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.

Known Issues

[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled. [200767905] If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
In multi-monitor configurations, the screen may display random black screen flicker. [3405228]
[NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
[NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721] Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is applied on the desktop.
NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284]

497.29 WHQL (December 20th, 2021)

Game Ready

GTFO
Horizon Zero Dawn DLSS

GFE Optimal Settings

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Chorus
Wartales
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
EVE Online
The Elder Scrolls Online
Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition
Thunder Tier One

Fixed

[Microsoft Flight Simulator]: The game may crash to the desktop during gameplay. [3454519]
[Microsoft Flight Simulator]: Purple/blue artifacts appear on ground textures in the game. [3454530]
[Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop occurs when there is mouse movement. [3405920]
Desktop may stutter after extended period when mouse cursor is moved. [3443235]
[NVIDIA Control Panel]: Spelling error in the German language NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> Shader Cache Size default option. [3442310]

Windows 10/11 Issues

[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled. [200767905]
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
In multi-monitor configurations, the screen may display random black screen flicker. [3405228]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
[NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
[NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721]
Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is applied on the desktop.
[NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284]
If HDR is required to be toggled from the Microsoft Control Panel, be sure to switch to a different Image Scaling resolution.

497.09 WHQL (December 1st, 2021)

Game Ready

Icarus
Halo Infinite
Chorus

Hardware

Added support for the GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

G-Sync Monitor Support

ASUS XG27UQR
Dell G2722HS
Dell G3223D
Dell G2422HS
LG 32PG750
MSI G273

GeForce Experience Settings

Farming Simulator 22
Halo Infinite
Inscryption
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story
Crab Game

Fixed

[Red Dead Redemption 2/Doom Eternal]: The game crashes with TDR or the system crashes while running the game. [200766423]
[Doom 3 BFG Edition]: The games shows corruption upon launch. [3407653]
[YouTube]: The YouTube web site randomly displays extreme contrast/gamma while idle or during video playback. [3420164]
[NVIDIA Image Scaling]: After performing a clean install or over install over version 496.49, NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions do not appear in the game. [3434708]
Games do not launch correctly on GeForce GTX 750 Ti when NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled. [3442778]
[Notebook]: Black screen may be observed on some Optimus notebooks with 1440p/165hz panels when in discrete GPU mode. [3426730]
[Notebook]: eDP panel cannot be lit when booting to the desktop after switching to discrete mode. [3423400]
Using Adaptive Vertical Sync while G-SYNC is enabled may result in random black screen. [3437003]

Known Issues

[Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition]: After attempting to change resolutions, the resolution does not change and the game falls out of IFlip mode. [3442862]
To apply the new resolution, press Alt+Tab.
[Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when
there is mouse movement. [3405920]
[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through
water. [3338967]
In multi-monitor configurations, the screen may display random black screen flicker.
[3405228]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
[NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
[NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721]
Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is applied on the desktop.
[NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284]
If HDR is required to be toggled from the Microsoft Control Panel, be sure to switch to a different Image Scaling resolution.

496.76 WHQL (November 16th, 2021)

Game Ready

Battlefield 2042

DLSS

Assetto Corsa Competizione
Bright Memory: Infinite
Farming Simulator 22
Myth of Empires

Gaming Technology

Includes support for NVIDIA Image Scaling (6-tap filter with 4 directional scaling and adaptive sharpening filters)

GFE Settings

Age of Empires IV
Battlefield 2042
Bright Memory: Infinite
Call of Duty: Vanguard
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Football Manager 2022
Forza Horizon 5
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Riders Republic

Fixed Issues

[WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship/WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship]: The games crash on launch. [3409320/3409312]
[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint]: Textures in the game may flicker. [3410593]
[Transport Fever]: The game crashes upon launch. [3411731]
Transport Fever 2]: Null pointer exception occurs in the display driver. [3409614]
[Quake 2 RTX]: Image corruption occurs in the blurred (bloom effect) background. [3410802]
[Far Cry 6][DirectX 12][GeFOrce RTX 3070 Ti]: With ULTRA + DXR + HD textures set, the game crashes at 4K. [3391784]
[Detroit Become Human]: Random stuttering/freezing occurs in the game. [3389250]
[Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game crashes with TDR or the system crashes while running the game. [200766423]
[Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War]: The game randomly crashes. [3413347]
[Marvel's Avengers Xbox Game Pass for PC version]: Game may randomly crash during gameplay [3404644]

Known Issues

[Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when there is mouse movement. [3405920]
[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
[NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
[YouTube]: The YouTube web site randomly displays extreme contrast/gamma while idle or during video playback. [3420164]
[NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721]
Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is applied on the desktop.
[NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284]
If HDR is required to be toggled from the Microsoft Control Panel, be sure to switch to a different Image Scaling resolution.
[NVIDIA Image Scaling]: After performing a clean install or over install over version 496.49, NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions do not appear in the game. [3434708]
To work around,
a. Disable HDR in case it's enabled from the Microsoft Control Panel, enable Image Scaling and apply the Image Scaling resolution on the desktop, and then reboot the system.
b. If the previous instructions do not work, upgrade to the hotfix driver 496.84.

496.49 WHQL (October 26th, 2021)

Game Ready

Guardians of the Galaxy
Age of Empires IV
Battlefield 2042 Early Access
Call of Duty: Vanguard
Chivalry 2
Forza Horizon 5
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Riders Republic

Security

See Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - October 2021 [page not up yet]

GeForce Experience Settings Optimization

Crysis 2 Remastered
Crysis 3 Remastered
Gas Station Simulator
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Qian Nv You Hun
Sword and Fairy 7

G-Sync Monitors

AOC 24G2W1G4
AOC AG274QS3R1B+
ASUS ROG XG27AQM
ASUS VG32AQ1LA
ASUS XG249CM
MSI MPG321QRF-QD

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Doom 3: BFG Edition]: Visual corruption occurs in the game. [3405146]
[Tom Clancy's The Division 2]: Flickering and visual corruption may appear after extended gameplay. [3369607]
[LG OLED C1 series]: The display may show random black screen flicker at 1080p. [3404999]

Known Issues

[Red Dead Redemption 2][Vulkan]: The game may randomly crash during gameplay. [3405911]
[WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship/WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship]: The games crash on launch. [3409320/3409312]
[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint]: Textures in the game may flicker. [3410593]
[Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when there is mouse movement. [3405920]
[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]

496.13 WHQL (October 12th, 2021)

Removed

Support for Windows 8.1
Support for Windows 8
Support for Windows 7
Support for Kepler Architecture (GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GTX 780, GTX 770, GTX 760, GT 740, GT 730, GTX 690, GTX 680, GTX 670, GTX 660 Ti, GTX 660, GTX 650 Ti and GTX 630)
Support for NvIFR frame capturing in OpenGL

Game Ready

Back 4 Blood
Crysis Remastered Trilogy
Baldur's Gate 3
Rise of the Tomb Raider DLSS
Shadow of the Tomb Raider DLSS
Chivalry 2
Riftbreaker
Sword and Fairy 7

GeForce Experience Settings Support

Alan Wake Remastered
Diablo II: Resurrected
Far Cry 6
FIFA 22
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Industria
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
MIR4
New World
Sable
Severed Steel
Tales of Arise
The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari No Kiseki
Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition
World War Z: Aftermath

NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings

Added Shader Cache Size control to set the maximum amount of disk space to use for storing shader compiles.
Vertical Sync options for Optimus notebook GPUs are now the same as for desktop GPUs.

Fixed

[GeForce RTX 3080]: The system does not boot with two Samsung Odyssey G70A 28" monitors are connected to the GPU. [3359697]
[GeForce GTX 960]: The primary monitor lost after resume from sleep or shutdown. [3340905]
[Windows 11]: The screen flashes once after switching to the discrete GPU-only mode in the NVIDIA Control Panel. [3330077]
[Multiple Apps][Ansel/Freestyle]: Depth of field filter shows blurry characters. [200749545]
[Notebook]: Vulkan test applications run on the integrated graphics processor instead of the discrete GPU. [200770322]

Windows 10/11 Issues

[Doom Eternal][HDR][FSR]: Eternal]: Texture across the game darkens and is unplayable after enabling HDR + FSR. [200776916]
[Rise of the Tomb Raider]: Characters and background disappear and corruption is prominent when Anti-Aliasing is set to SSAA 2X and SSAA 4x. [200777463]
[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 may display graphical artifacts. [200754013]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
[Windows 11]: Display goes blank when video is switched to full-screen with G-Sync enabled. [200778687]

471.96 WHQL (August 31st, 2021)

New Features and Other Changes

Updated scaling resolution in NVIDIA Image Sharpening.

GeForce Experience Settings Support

Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Bless Unleashed
Blood of Heroes
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Draw & Guess
Faraday Protocol
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy III
Ghost Hunters Corp
Golf With Your Friends
GrandChase
Humankind
King's Bounty II
Madden NFL 22
Mini Motorways
Psychonauts 2
Quake Remastered
SAMURAI WARRIORS 5
Supraland
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
The Walking Dead: Onslaught
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Yakuza 5 Remastered

G-SYNC Support

EVE Spectrum ES07D03
Lenovo G27Q-20
MSI MAG321QR
Philips OLED806
ViewSonic XG250
Xiaomi O77M8-MAS

Fixed Issues in this Release

DPC latency is higher when color mode is set to 8-bit color compared to 10-bit color.[3316424]
Unable to detect supported display modes for the Samsung Odyssey G9 display [3332327]
Blue-screen crash/reboot loop occurs when two Samsung Odyssey G9 displays @ 240Hz are connected. [3256732]
NVDisplay.Container.exe constantly writes data to C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\nvtopps\nvtopps.db3. [3350171]
[Windows 11][Notebook]: With the graphics mode set to Hybrid, the GPU frequently wakes up while idle. [3345922]
[CUDA][Turing/Volta GPUs]: Stability issues with Topaz Denoise AI. [200755368]

Windows 10 Issues

[Deathloop][HDR]:TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After overinstalling the driver using express install when GPU scaling is enabled, the 0.59x upscaling factor is missing from the NVIDIA Control Panel scaling resolution list (Display > Change Resolution page).
To work around, disable and then re-enable GPU scaling. Alternatively, perform a clean driver installation.
[Battlefield V][DirectX 12]: The game may crash with HDR enabled. [3353767]
To work around, enable HDR from the Windows display settings before launching the game.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 may display graphical artifacts. [200754013]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]

471.41 WHQL (July 19th, 2021)

Game Ready

Red Dead Redemption 2
Chernobylite

Operating System Support

Added support for Windows 11

GFE Settings Support

Curse of the Dead Gods
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
Endzone - A World Apart
Into the Radius VR
LEGO Builder's Journey
Muck
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
Nigate Tale
Slime Rancher
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
The Last Spell
Wildermyth

G-Sync Validated

Samsung LS28AG700N
Samsung LC27G50A

Fixed

[Capture One]: Hardware acceleration stops working. [3338552]
Disabled NOHud/RemoveHud filter from the game Valorant. [3332516]
[Doom Eternal]: The game may freeze during gameplay. [3331270]
[League of Legends]: The game may fail to launch. [200744747]
[HDR]: Mouse cursor color may shift when connected to certain DSC monitors in HDR mode [200741796]
Ansel DOF filter blurs the entire screen in some games. [3288883]
Some displays screen resolution limited to 640x480 after driver update. [3330750]
[HDMI 2.1][8K] HDMI audio playback may become distorted after changing display modes [3268312]
[RDP] Remote desktop connection to PC with color set to 10-bit will result in corrupted
picture. [3332787]
GPU HDMI audio dropouts may occur when connected to an LG C9 OLED TV [3316495]

Windows 10 Issues

[Batman Arkham Knight][GeForce 10 Series]: The game may crash when turbulence smoke is used. [3202250]
To work around, disable "INTERACTIVE SMOKE/FOG" from the in-game graphics options.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Hitman 3]: The game may display random flickering when V-SYNC is disabled [200742415]
[Monster Hunter World]: The game displays flashing glitches after extended gameplay.[3336071]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
DPC latency is higher when color mode is set to 8-bit color compared to 10-bit color. [3316424]
To work around, disable MPO using the registry key found in the KB article: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157/.
Unable to detect supported display modes for the Samsung Odyssey G9 display [3332327]

471.11 WHQL (June 22nd, 2021)

Game Ready

Doom Eternal Raytracing & DLSS
LEGO Builder's Journey
Rust DLSS
F1 2021
Escape from Tarkov (Reflex)

New Features

Added support for Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1)

GeForce Experience

One-Click HDR Screenshot Capture for All GeForce Experience Supported Games
New Freestyle Sharpen Filter: We have added a new and improved Sharpen+ filter for Freestyle which uses depth to enhance quality
FPS Counter: Based on your feedback, we made adjustments to the new FPS counter, to no longer show "N/A" when FPS is not available
One-Click Automatic GPU Tuning: We have improved the user experience by adding status messages during the tuning process
GFE Optimal Settings support
- Blade & Soul
- CrossFire HD
- Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV

G-SYNC

AOC AG274US4R6B
AOC AG254FWG8R4
ASUS VG28UQL1A
LG 32GN650/32GN63T

Linux

NVIDIA DLSS Linux Support For Proton

Fixed Issues

[World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
[SLI][GeForce GTX 980M]: The system locks with a black screen upon booting into Windows. No repro with 457.51. [3266090]
[Surround][GeForce RTX 3090]: With Surround active, setting Bezel Correction disables Surround. [3286449]
[Crossfire][GeForce Experience][FreeStyle]: Freestyle might not work on Crossfire after the game is updated. [200736765]
[HDR]: Some specific HDMI displays might show some flickering in HDR mode. [200729987]
[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
[NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: Colors may appear incorrect in games if sharpen Freestyle filter is used with HDR enabled. [200658208]
Display may flicker or lose signal when launching a game on an adaptive-sync VRR monitor in multi-monitor configuration when sharing the same display mode [3314055]
DisplayPort monitor may not wake from sleep when connected in extended mode with an HDMI 2.1 display that is powered off. [3281998]

Windows 10 Issues

[Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
DPC latency is higher when color mode is set to 8-bit color compared to 10-bit color. [3316424]

465.89 WHQL (March 30th, 2021)

Game Ready

Outriders
DiRT 5 raytracing
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Kingdom Hearts

Gaming Technology

Includes support for Resizable BAR across the GeForce RTX 30 Series of Desktop and Notebook GPUs
Includes beta support for virtualization on GeForce GPUs

Application Profiles

Shenmue III (NVIDIA Turing GPUs only)
The Medium (NVIDIA Turing GPUs only)

Other Changes

Added support for extended DP-to-HDMI 2.1 PCON clock frequency range to better support 8K TVs.
Changed the G-SYNC on-screen status indicator to be less obtrusive.

OpenCL 3.0

Added support for OpenCL 3.02, the latest major version of OpenCL maintaining backward compatibility with OpenCL 1.2. NVIDIA OpenCL 3.0 continues to support existing OpenCL 1.2 functionality as well as Khronos and vendor extensions that are already supported with NVIDIA OpenCL 1.2 drivers.
The following new features beyond existing NVIDIA OpenCL 1.2 features are supported by NVIDIA OpenCL 3.0
- RGBA vector component naming in OpenCL C kernels
- pragma_unroll hint
- opencl_3d_image_writes
- clCreate*WithProperties APIs which can be used as replacement for existing
  clCreateBuffer/Image APIs.
- clSetContextDestructorCallback
- clCloneKernel from OpenCL 2.1
- clEnqueueSVMMigrateMem from OpenCL 2.1
- Incorporates the following experimental 2.0 features:
- Device side enqueue
- The current implementation is limited to 64-bit platforms only.
- OpenCL 2.0 allows kernels to be enqueued with global_work_size larger than the
  compute capability of the NVIDIA GPU. The current implementation supports only
  combinations of global_work_size and local_work_size that are within the compute capability of the NVIDIA GPU.
  For a given grid dimension, the global_work_size can be determined by CUDA grid size x CUDA block size.
  For executing kernels (whether from the host or the device), OpenCL 2.0 supports nonuniform ND-ranges where global_work_size does not need to be divisible by the local_work_size. This capability is not yet supported in the NVIDIA driver, and therefore not supported for device side kernel enqueues.
- Shared virtual memory
- The current implementation of shared virtual memory is limited to 64-bit platforms
  only.

OpenCL 3.0 Known Issues
- Device-Side-Enqueue related queries may return 0 values, although corresponding built-ins can be safely used by kernel.
  This is in accordance with conformance requirements described at https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/specs/3.0-unified/html/OpenCL_API.html#opencl-3.0-backwardscompatibility
- The denorms that were flushed to zero by default when cl-fast-relaxed-math on OpenCL 1.2 drivers won't be flushed to zero with OpenCL 3.0 driver by default.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan]: Smoke appears pixelated. [3266916]
[Vulkan][X4: Foundations 4.00/X4: Cradle of Humanity] The game may crash on GeForce RTX 30 Series. [200701230]
[GeForce RTX 3090]: Blue-screen crash occurs when Samsung Odyssey G9 is paired with HDMI TV. [3240366]
[GeForce RTX 2060]: Blue-screen crash (DPC_WATCHDOGS_VIOLATION) occurs when playing a game and watching YouTube video simultaneously. [3196272]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The application may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings [2750770]
Realtek Displayport-to-HDMI 2.1 protocol converter clock limited to 600MHz pixel clock [3202060]
[G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere/Turing GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566].
[GFE Screenshot/HDR]: Application screenshots are washed out when HDR is enabled [3229781]

Windows 10 Issues

[World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
[Supreme Commander/Supreme Commander 2]: The games experience low FPS. [3231218/3230880]
[Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
[Adobe Camera RAW 12.x]: RAW files may show up black in Adobe Lightroom. [3266883]
[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
[VR]: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 VR may stutter if Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is disabled. [3246674]
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

461.72 WHQL (February 25th, 2021)

Added support for the following GPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
NVIDIA CMP 40HX
NVIDIA CMP 30HX

Fixed Issues in this Release

[G-SYNC][Edge of Eternity/Hitman 2]: The games experience stutter and low FPS when using hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in windowed mode. [200685971]
[G-Sync][Vulkan Apps]: Performance drop occurs when using G-SYNC and switching from full-screen mode to windowed mode using the in-game settings. [200681477]
[The Isle]: Freestyle is not supported for the game. [3229829]
[VIndictus][GeForce Experience]: The game cannot be recorded. [2203875]
[X4: Foundations][Vulkan]: The application crashes when launched on Windows 10 (Version 1803). [3220107]
Wallpaper Engine app may crash on startup or upon resume from sleep. [3208963]
[Blu-ray][HDMI]: Flickering occurs in Blu-ray playback when played over HDMI. [3221611]
Several desktop applications flicker when Vertical Sync is set to the default "Use the 3D application setting". [3252186]
[Ampere]: Chrome/Edge may experience random TDR while browsing.[3195894]
LG CX OLED TVs (2020) are not recognized as G-SYNC Compatible displays.[3244055]
[Surround][RTX 30 series] PC may display "no signal" message when enabling NVIDIA Surround. [3230565]
[Notebook]: On some Notebooks, the 'Maximum Graphics Power' information missing in the NVIDIA Control Panel > System Information page. [200697069]

Windows 10 Issues:

Some desktop applications may flicker or stutter when resizing the window on some PC configurations [3252200]. See the NVIDIA KBA 5157 for a possible workaround.
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Advanced Optimus]: The game may crash while launching. [3257842]
[GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER]: Random flickering may appear across the top of the monitor on some PC configurations. [3184254]
[World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
[Supreme Commander/Supreme Commander 2]: The games experience low FPS. [3231218]
[Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
[G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere/Turing GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

461.40 WHQL (January 26th, 2021)

Includes support for GeForce RTX 30 Series laptops (RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060).
Provides support for The Medium, a new adventure-horror game
that features ray tracing and our performance-accelerating NVIDIA DLSS technology.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[X4: Foundations][Vulkan]: The game may crash on GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. [3220107]
[X4: Foundations][Vulkan]: HUD in the game is broken. [3169099]
[Resident Evil 2 Remake/Devil May Cry V] Games which used the RE2 engine may crash in DirectX 11 mode [200686418]
[DaVinci Resolve]: Error 707, application crash, or application instability may occur. [3225521]
[Adobe Premiere Pro]: The application may freeze when using Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA). [3230997/200686504]
[Zoom][NVENC]: Webcam video image colors on the receiving end of Zoom may appear incorrect. [3205912]
[Detroit: Become Human]: The game randomly crashes. [3203114]
[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game (without running any GPU hardware monitoring tool in the background) [3152190]
[Assassin's Creed Valhalla]: The game may randomly crash after extended gameplay [200679654]
NVIDIA Broadcast Camera filter may hang. [200691869]
[Zoom]: Chrome browser flickers with Zoom app. [200695072]
[G-SYNC][Surround][RTX 30 series] PC may restart when enabling NVIDIA Surround with GSYNC enabled on RTX 30 series GPUs. [3202303]

Windows 10 Issues

[World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
[Supreme Commander/Supreme Commander 2]: The games experience low FPS. [3231218]
Wallpaper Engine app may crash on startup or upon resume from sleep. [3208963]
[Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
[G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere/Turing GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
[G-Sync][Vulkan Apps]: Performance drop occurs when using G-SYNC and switching from full-screen mode to windowed mode using the in-game settings. [200681477]
To workaround, either launch the game in windowed mode directly or disable G-SYNC.

461.09 WHQL (January 7th, 2021)

New Features

Added security updates for driver components. See NVIDIA Security bulletin 5142 [I can't find anything on this, maybe the page isn't live yet]

Fixed Issues

[GeForce Experience]: The FPS counter is activated and the overlay appears on Windows Mail and Calendar applications.[200682565]
[GeForce GTX 750 Ti]: Blue-screen crash (UNEXPECTED KERNEL MODE TRAP) may occur.
[3196164] [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti]: The desktop screen may flicker.
[3200599] [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti]: The system may freeze with the screen displaying as solid color.
[3203038] [HDR]: With HDR enabled, black levels are incorrect, notably on LG OLED TVs. [200682795/3201305]
[Notebook][Lenovo Y740]: The notebook displays corruption after waking from sleep.
[3178279] Blue-screen crash (0x116) may occur upon resuming from sleep mode when three 4k monitors are connected. [3054239/3195884]

Windows 10 Issues

[X4: Foundations][Vulkan]: The game may crash on GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. [3220107]
[X4: Foundations][Vulkan]: HUD in the game is broken. [3169099]
[Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
[Detroit: Become Human]: The game randomly crashes. [3203114]
[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game. [3152190]
[G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere/Turing GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
[G-Sync][Vulkan Apps]: Performance drop occurs when using G-SYNC and switching from full-screen mode to windowed mode using the in-game settings. [200681477]
To workaround, either launch the game in windowed mode directly or disable G-SYNC.
[GeForce RTX 3070][Clone Mode]: When the resolution is set to 2560x1440 @ 144Hz, the performance state is stuck at maximum performance. [200678414]
[NVIDIA Turing or later][Windows Movies and TV Player]: When playing a 4k video in fullscreen mode on a 2560x1440 HDR monitor, the video extends beyond the edge of the screen. [3186830]

460.79 WHQL (December 9th, 2020)

Game Ready

Cyberpunk 2077
Minecraft RTX

New Features and Other Changes

NVIDIA Control Panel
- Added Background Application Max Frame Rate control (Manage 3D Settings page)
- Added Color Accuracy Mode feature (Display > Adjust Desktop Color Settings page)

G-Sync

Added Acer XV242Y, Acer XB273U NV, Gigabyte FI27Q-X, MSI MAG274R andPhilips 275M8RZ

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
When setting the refresh rate higher than 100Hz, the color format switches from RGB to ycbcr422. [3053990]
[GeForce RTX 3090][SLI][G-SYNC]: When G-SYNC is enabled in SLI surround (3x monitors), the system locks up when launching a game. [3167493]
[GeForce RTX 3-series]: NvAPI_GPU_GetGPUInfo() returns an incorrect number of GPU Tensor Cores. [3140329]
[MPC-HC]: The video player crashes when playing 1088 pixel-width videos. [3148082]
[5k display]: When the display is set to 5k resolution, you cannot set the color settings from the NVIDIA Control Panel > Change resolution page. Either the controls are greyed out or they revert to the default after applying any change. [200630939/3182567].

Windows 10 Issues

[Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game. [3152190]
[G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
[Freestyle][Vulkan apps]: With the freestyle filters applied, a blue-screen crash occurs when pressing [Alt+Tab] while running Vulkan applications. [200667477]
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
[G-Sync][Vulkan Apps]: Performance drop occurs when using G-SYNC and switching from full-screen mode to windowed mode using the in-game settings. [200681477]
To workaround, either launch the game in windowed mode directly or disable G-SYNC.
[GeForce RTX 3070][Clone Mode]: When the resolution is set to 2560x1440 @ 144Hz, the performance state is stuck at maximum performance. [200678414]
[NVIDIA Turing or later][Windows Movies and TV Player]: When playing a 4k video in fullscreen mode on a 2560x1440 HDR monitor, the video extends beyond the edge of the screen. [3186830]

457.09 WHQL (October 29th, 2020)

Game Ready

Watch Dogs: Legion
DiRT 5
Ghostrunner
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII.

G-Sync

Added Acer XB323U GX, Asus VG279QL1A, Dell AW2521HFLA and Gigabyte FI25F

New Features and Other Changes

Added support for GeForce RTX 3070.
NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings: "Max Q Dynamic Boost" setting renamed to "Dynamic Boost".

Fixed Issues

[Turing GPU][Notebook]:On some Turing-based notebooks, users may see a black window when playing back a video in a web browser. [3135055]
[For Honor][RTX 30 series]:Game will crash to desktop when launched on GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards. [3139187]
Random flicker may occur in multi-monitor configurations when G-SYNC is enabled.
Flickering occurs on Dell S2417DG and Dell S2716DG monitors.when playing YouTube or Twitch videos at 144 Hz. [3147515]
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The game may crash to the desktop when starting a race. [200660345]
Users may see a black screen when launching a game on a monitor using DSC (Display Stream Compression). [200661231]
[G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

[G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
[Freestyle/Ansel]: After launching and then closing Star Wars: Squadrons, Freestyle/Ansel stops working on supported games. [3154362]
To work around, reset the NVIDIA Control Panel global 3D settings. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings page, then select the Global Settings tab, click Restore and then click Yes at the confirmation dialog.
[Freestyle][Vulkan apps]: With the freestyle filters applied, a blue-screen crash occurs when pressing [Alt+Tab] while running Vulkan applications. [200667477]
[Warzone][RTX 30 series]: Users may see a drop in performance during gameplay.[3132127]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[Notebook][RTX 2060]: Notebook display may flicker or turn black when Microsoft Hybrid Graphics is disabled. [3147602]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

456.71 WHQL (October 7th, 2020)

Support for the upcoming Open Beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
NVIDIA Reflex for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Beta

Administrator privileges are now required to perform EDID override..

Fixed

[Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition]: Enabling Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling results in lower frame rate. [3129590]
[G-SYNC]: Launching a game in full-screen mode may trigger a black screen on adaptive sync monitors if G-SYNC is enabled. [200660138]
[Fortnite][Notebook]: The game may crash when using in-game RTX Shadows/Reflection on some notebook configurations. [200655541]

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

[World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328]
To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]
[GeForce RTX 3080/3090]: Samsung G9 49" display goes black at 240 Hz. [3129363]
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

456.55 WHQL (September 30th, 2020)

Game Ready

NVIDIA Reflex Support for 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' and 'Call of Duty: Warzone'
Star Wars: Squadrons
The new Game Ready Driver also improves stability in certain games on RTX 30 Series GPUs.

Fixed Issues

[Omniverse 2020.2.4496]: Corruption occurs after switching from RTX Real-Time to RTX Path-Traced renderer. [200649160]
[Vulkan games]: The GeForce Experience> Performance > Render Latency setting sometimes sticks at 0 on Vulkan games. [3129618]
Multiple G-SYNC Compatible monitors were removed from the G-SYNC Compatible list in the driver. [3130059]
There is a slight increase in the Windows Event Log CPU utilization. [200659659]
NVIDIA Container service may crash upon resume from system sleep /hibernate mode. [200658281]
[Notebook]: Performance Power Mode cannot be set from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200657525]

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

[World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328]
To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See "Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store" on page 21 for more information.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]
[GeForce RTX 3080/3090]: Samsung G9 49" display goes black at 240 Hz. [3129363]
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

456.38 WHQL (September 17th, 2020)

Game Ready

Fortnite RTX
This new Game Ready Driver provides support for Fortnite's dramatic new update which adds raytraced effects, NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and a custom RTX map.
Halo 3: ODST
Mafia: The Definitive Edition.

Gaming Technology

Includes support for GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 GPUs
GeForce Experience Automatic Performance Tuning for GeForce RTX 30-series and RTX 20-series
GeForce Experience in-game performance monitoring for GeForce GTX 600 series and above
ShadowPlay gameplay recording now supports HDR on GTX 900-series and above (RTX 3090 can capture 8K 30fps HDR)
NVIDIA Broadcast app with AI-powered noise removal and virtual background
5 New G-SYNC Compatible Monitors

New Features

Supports CUDA 11.1

SLI Profiles

Baldur's Gate 3
Comanche (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
Crusader Kings III
Disintegration (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
Population Zero
RIDE 4 (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
Rocket Arena (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
The Blackout Club (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)

SLI

Implicit SLI Disabled on NVIDIA Ampere GPUs
Implicit SLI, where the driver makes assumptions with application profiles to achieve GPU scaling, is disabled on NVIDIA Ampere GPUs. Explicit SLI is still supported, where the application knows the SLI state and uses extensions (such as DirectX 12 linked nodes, Vulkan device groups, or OpenGL multicast extensions) to issue commands to each device in the SLI group.

Fixed Issues

[Batman Arkham Knight]: Enabling Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling on PhysX games results in lower frame rate.[2988376]
[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: The game may intermittently see a drop in frame rate when ray tracing is enabled. [3050468]
[Detroit: Become Human]: The game may crash. [3037846]
[Forza Horizon 4]: Stuttering occurs in the game after racing a few laps. [3101001]
[Horizon Zero Dawn The Complete Edition]: Flickering and texture corruption occurs in game after setting Anisotropic Filtering to 16x from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200638389]
[madVR][MPC-HC]: Various HDR issues occur when using the madVR renderer with MPC-HC. [3038381]
[Minecraft Java Edition;]: The game may crash when launched with XSplit Broadcaster running in the background. [3052464]
[World of Warcraft]: Objects randomly flicker. [3101638]
Video playback on the secondary display lags/freezes while playing a game on the primary display if Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling is enabled [200586262]
[Notebook]: Display is not detected when connected to Thunderbolt 3 port on HP Spectre x360-15t-df100 Notebook. [3087076]
[Notebook][NVIDIA Control Panel]: With Clone mode set, only the Developer pages are visible in the NVIDIA Control Panel after hot-plugging a DisplayPort/HDMI Freesync display. [200637570]
[Notebook]: When a game is played on the primary display and a YouTube video is played on the extended display, viudeo playback is sluggish and stutters. [200586262]
[Pascal GPU][Marvel's Avengers]: The game may crash when switching windows [Alt+Tab] while the game is running. [3101682]

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][G-SYNC][Red Dead Redemption 2 Vulkan]: With SLI + G-SYNC enabled, the games display corruption and a blank screen.[200645671]
[World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[V]}: HDCP errors occur with Valve Index VR. [2967616]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328]
To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store.
[Omniverse 2020.2.4496]: Corruption occurs after switching from RTX Real-Time to RTX Path-Traced renderer. [200649160]
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
[Notebook]: Performance Power Mode cannot be set from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200657525]

452.06 WHQL (August 17th, 2020)

Game Ready
This new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Microsoft Flight Simulator. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands pre-patch on the public test realm as well as for A Total War Saga: TROY and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Shadow of the Tomb Raider][DirectX 12]: The game may crash when launched if Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is enabled.
[Death Stranding]: Texture corruption may be observed during gameplay on GeForce GTX 16/RTX 20 series GPUs.
[Path of Exile]: Black square corruption appears around characters.
[Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed]: The game crashes when playing in a water level.
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The game starts to stutter after racing a few laps.
[Zhan Ge Jing Ji Chang]: Corruption occurs in the game when played in the Tencent mobile game simulator.
Several games randomly freeze for a few seconds during gameplay. Affected games include Assassin's Creed Origins, Planetside 2, Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
The NVIDIA Control Panel does not display the native resolution of some HDTVs if the timings are invalid.
Some displays may show a green tint when Windows Night Light is enabled.
Snow appears on the display upon waking up the HDMI monitor.
[Notebook][Turing] Display may show pixelated corruption on waking notebook from long display off

Known Issues

[SLI][Red Dead Redemption 2]: With SLI enabled, the game may crash with ERR_GFX_STATE error pointing to nvlddmkm.sys after pressing [Alt]+[Tab].[3083589]
[SLI][G-SYNC][Red Dead Redemption 2 Vulkan]: With SLI + G-SYNC enabled, the games display corruption and a blank screen.[200645671]
[SLI][World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: Character images may flicker when SLI is enabled. [200647193]
[World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[VR}: HDCP errors occur with Valve Index VR. [2967616]
[Call of Duty – Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: Game may randomly show large frame rate drop with ray tracing enabled [3050468]
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328]
To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable.[2810884]
You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See "Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store" on page 21 for more information.
Video playback on the secondary display lags/freezes while playing a game on the primary display if Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling is enabled [200586262]
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

451.67 WHQL (July 9th, 2020)

Game Ready

Death Stranding
Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition
F1 2020.

Fixed Issues in this Release

The refresh rate of 144Hz-capable HDMI displays cannot be set above 120 Hz. [3038540]
[Kepler GPUs]: With SLI/multi-GPU and G-SYNC enabled, TDRs may occur soon after launching an application. [200628981]
[Detroit: Become Human]: The game may randomly crash. [3037846]
[Adobe Premiere]: Adjustments in Lumetri color panel causes video to appear noisy.[3038602]
[Notebook][GeForce GTX 1050 Ti]: Blue-screen crash, application hang, or system hang may occur. [3038621]
[Notebook][The Witcher 3 WILD HUNT]: The game remains minimized when the NVIDIA Control Panel >3D Settings >Manage Display Mode is set to Automatic or Optimus, and cannot be restored to full screen. [200628973]
[Notebook][G-SYNC]: Graphical corruption occurs when windowed G-SYNC+V-Sync is On while running applications in Clone/Duplicate mode. [200628911]
[Notebook]: LVDS-display goes blank upon rebooting the system after driver installation on some systems. [200627952]

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

[Mechwarrior 5 DirectX 12]: The game crashes randomly with TDR and "Video driver crashed and was reset" error. [200634109]
[Shadow of the Tomb Raider][DirectX 12]: The game may crash when launched if Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling is enabled. [3037544]
To workaound, disable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.
[Horizon Zero Dawn Complete][DirectX 12]: Colored corruption occurs during the game-load menu if Image Sharpening is enabled. [200633655]
Several games randomly freeze for a few seconds during gameplay. Affected games include Assassin's Creed Origins, Planetside 2, Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Assassin's Creed Syndicate. [3038632]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[VR]: HDCP errors occur with Valve Index VR. [2967616]
[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: Color banding can occur in the game after enabling Image Sharpening from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2889337/3028436]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641]
To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.
Video playback on the secondary display lags/freezes while playing a game on the primary display if Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling is enabled [200586262]
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

451.48 WHQL (June 24th, 2020)

Game Ready for DirectX 12 Ultimate

The new Game Ready Driver provides full support for the new DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. This includes support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR) version 1.1 as well as support for mesh
shaders, sampler feedback, and variable-rate shading (VRS).

Additionally, this driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.

New Features and Other Changes

Supports DirectX 12 Ultimate
Supports Vulkan 1.2
Supports hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling.
Supports CUDA 11.0.

Application Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

DCL - The Game (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
Jiu Xiao
Monster Energy Supercross 2 - The Official Videogame (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
MORDHAU (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later
Overpass (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
Planetside 2 (DirectX 11)
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
Surviving The Aftermath
System Shock (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
The Fisherman - Fishing Planet (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later
Warhammer Underworlds: Online
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Just Cause 2]: The game does not detect CUDA files which results in missing "GPU Water Simulation" and "Bokeh Filter" settings. [2994570]
[Sea of Thieves]: Issues with game rendering occur. [200614095]
[Resident Evil 2 Remake]: The game may display random object and menu flickering. [2997880]
[Devil May Cry 5]: The game may display random object flickering. [2997814]
[Divinity Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition]: The game experiences low performance when hardware accelerated GPU scheduling is enabled. [3009631]
[Notebook]: Windows Mixed Reality headsets may display jitter when connected to the HDMI port linked to the NVIDIA Optimus notebook integrated graphics. [2971312]
[G-SYNC]: G-SYNC does not work with DirectX 9 games if "Disable full screen optimizations" is selected. [2969897]
Display brightness increases while enabling GPU scaling. [200612966]
NVIDIA HD Audio may disappear after display goes to sleep. [2807732]
The cursor turns into a grey rectangle when playing YouTube 4K HDR videos. [3009602]

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[VR]: HDCP errors occur with Valve Index VR. [2967616]
[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: Color banding can occur in the game after enabling Image Sharpening from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2889337/3028436]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable.[2810884]
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641]
To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.
[SLI][G-SYNC]: With multi-GPU and G-SYNC enabled, TDRs occur soon after launching an application. [200628981]
[Notebook][The Witcher 3 WILD HUNT]: The game remains minimized when DDS switch is set to Optimus and Automatic, and cannot be restored to full screen. [200628973]
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
[Notebook][G-SYNC]: Graphical corruption occurs when windowed G-SYNC+V-Sync is On while running applications in Clone/Duplicate mode. [200628911]
[Notebook]: LVDS-display goes blank upon rebooting the system after driver installation on some systems. [200627952]

446.14 WHQL (May 27th, 2020)

Game Ready

Valorant
Minecraft Dungeons
Disintegration
Crucible.

New Features and Other Changes

Added Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) support for Onward.

SLI profiles (Turing)

ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Blacksad: Under the Skin
Blair Witch
Close to the Sun
Hell Let Loose
Journey To The Savage Planet
Monster Energy Supercross 3
MotoGP 19
MXGP 2019 - The Official Motocross Videogame
eFootball PES 2020
World War 3

SLI Profiles

Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest
Phoenix Point
Tamarin
Will To Live Online
Yakuza Kiwami 2

Fixed Issues

[Notebook]: Notebooks with Maxwell generation GPUs may experience higher GPU utilization during game play leading to reduced battery life and higher temperatures. [2929921/200608270]
[SLI]: Major frame time spikes occur in multiple games.[2903264]
[HDR]: Some games may appear very bright when HDR is enabled. [2909218]
[Monster Hunter World Iceborne]: Artifacts appear in the game. [2903858]
[Resident Evil 3 Remake][DirectX 12]: Some objects in the game may flicker. [2938095]
[F1 2019]: The game may randomly crash to the desktop. [200608572]
Fixed an issue where the shader cache was sometimes incorrectly purged upon launching an application. [2937218]
Fixed driver installation issue on Colorful GeForce GTX 1650. [2919568]
Corsair iCUE program triggers Geforce Overlay. [200614189]

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

[VR]: HDCP errors occur with Valve Index VR. [2967616]
[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: Color banding occurs in the game after enabling Image Sharpening from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2889337]
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[SLI][Doom Eternal]: Corruption occurs in the game upon opening the Steam overlay. [200593967]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641]
To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.

445.75 WHQL (March 23rd, 2020)

Game Ready

Half-Life: Alyx
Resident Evil 3
Ghost Recon Breakpoint's Ghost Experience update
Addition of NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 to Control and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries.

Added or updated the following SLI profiles (Turing only)

ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Blacksad: Under the Skin
Blair Witch
Close to the Sun
Hell Let Loose
Journey To The Savage Planet
Monster Energy Supercross 3
MotoGP 19
MXGP 2019 - The Official Motocross Videogame
eFootball PES 2020
World War 3

Added or updated the following SLI profiles (all supported NVIDIA GPUs)

Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest
Phoenix Point
Tamarin
Will To Live Online
Yakuza Kiwami 2

Windows 7 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[Doom Eternal]: Flickering occurs in the ShadowPlay on-screen settings when in-game VSync is OFF. [200593899]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: ShadowPlay and Screenshot capture does not work with Windows 7 (200593494)
[World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth][DirectX 12]: The game crashes when switched from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12 mode. [200574934]

Windows 10 Issues

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
[SLI][Red Dead Redemption 2]: With SLI, G-SYNC, and V-Sync enabled, increased flickering occurs in the game. [2858046]
To work around, disable V-Sync.
[Strange Brigade (DirectX 12)]: Green color corruption appears in the game when the output color format is set to YCbCr 420 or 12bpc. [200588227]
To work around, use a different color space such as 422 or 444.
[Resident Evil 3 Remake]: The bundled GeForce Experience doesn't support freestyle for the game. [2897138]
[SLI][Doom Eternal]: Corruption occurs in the game upon opening the Steam overlay.[200593967]
[DOOM Eternal]: Error occurs in the game while capturing Super Resolution (AI Upres) Image with Ansel.[200597765]
[Doom Eternal]: The game frame rate drops when using the Steam in-game FPS counter. [200593988]
This issue also occurs with non-NVIDIA graphics hardware.
[DOOM Eternal][HDR]: The game flickers when OS HDR is set to OFF and in-game HDR is set to ON.[2874172]
To work around, enable "Play HDR games and apps" from the Windows HD Color Settings menu.
[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: Game may display white flashes when player approaches a wall. [2887940]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641]
To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.

442.19 WHQL (February 3rd, 2020)

Game Ready

The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Zombie Army: Dead War 4. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Apex Legends Season 4 and Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.

Maximum Framerate

In the last Game Ready Driver, we introduced a new Maximum Framerate Setting into the NVIDIA Control Panel which allowed gamers to set the max framerate a 3D application or game can render. With the latest Game Ready Driver, we've incorporated community feedback asking for the limits to be extended. As a result, framerate limits can be as low as 20fps and can be raised as high as 1000fps.

New Features and Other Changes

NVIDIA Control Panel>3D Settings>Maximum Frame Rate control
Extended the slider values to minimum=20, maximum=1000.
Added Virtual Reality - Variable Rate Super Sampling (VRSS) setting to the NVIDIA Control Panel ->Manage 3D Settings page.
VRSS improves image quality by applying super sampling selectively on the central region of a frame.This feature is available for VR applications profiled for VRSS. See this Game Ready Driver article for the latest list of profiled VR apps.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine]: The game may crash when a user reaches a specific cut scene. [2726931]
[Maxwell GPUs][OpenCL]: SETI@Home shows driver TDR occuring on Maxwell GPUs using OpenCL. [2739609]
[Call of Duty Modern Warfare]: Streaming of gameplay using OBS will randomly stop. [2743477]
[Battleye][Low-Latency Mode]: Launching Battleye with NVIDIA Low Latency Mode set to Ultra may cause DWM to reset. [2775906]
[SLI+G-SYNC Stutter]: User may experience minor stuttering when using NVIDIA SLI in combination with G-SYNC. [2778783]
[Doom (2016)]: The game crashes when launched on GeForce 600/700 series (Kepler) GPUs [2791124]
[NVENC]: Memory leak occurs. [2805384]
[Multiple Apps][SLI][G-SYNC]: Stuttering and drop in frame rate occurs during gameplay with SLI and G-SYNC enabled [200566678]

Windows 7 Issues

[World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth][DirectX 12]: The game crashes when switched from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12 mode. [200574934]

Windows 10 Issues

[Mortal Kombat]: The game may randomly crash to the desktop without error [2813996]
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Vulkan][HDR]:Corrupted flickering occurs when in-game HDR is enabled. [200585136]
To work around, either disable HDR or use DirectX 12 mode.
[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641]
To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.

441.87 WHQL (January 6th, 2020)

Game Ready for Wolfenstein: Youngblood with Ray Tracing
The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Wolfenstein: Youngblood including the introduction of ray tracing. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, Bright Memory: Infinite, and the latest version of Quake II RTX.

Maximum Framerate
In response to overwhelming demand from the community, we have introduced a new Maximum Framerate Setting into the NVIDIA Control Panel. Use the maximum frame rate setting to set the max framerate a 3D application or game can render. This feature is particularly helpful when trying to save power, reduce system latency or paired with your NVIDIA G-SYNC display to stay within variable refresh rate range.

Image Sharpening Improvements
Leveraging gamer feedback over the last few months, we have been continually improving the new image sharpening feature. With this latest version, you have the ability to toggle GPU scaling independent of whether image sharpening is enabled or disabled.

Variable Rate Super Sampling
We introduced a new VRSS feature…
Variable Rate Super Sampling (VRSS) is a new technique to improve image quality in VR games which uses NVIDIA Variable Rate Shading (VRS) to dynamically apply up to 8x super sampling to the center of the VR display when GPU headroom is available. In doing so, VRSS can improve image quality at the focal point of the eye while always maintaining the 90 FPS needed to deliver a smooth VR experience.

Share Freestyle Filters
Gamers can now import and export Freestyle/Ansel filters and take advantage of a new split screen filter to help showcase their improvements!

New Features and Other Changes

Added Max Frame Rate control to the NVIDIA Control Panel ->Manage 3D Settings page.: Lets you set the maximum 3D game or application frame rate that the GPU will render.
Updated Image Sharpening controls in the NVIDIA Control Panel->Manage 3D Settings page: Image Sharpening and GPU Upscaling can now be enabled separately.
Custom display modes are available when GPU Upscaling is enabled.
Added Virtual Reality - Variable Rate Super Sampling (VRSS) setting to the NVIDIA Control Panel ->Manage 3D Settings page.
VRSS improves image quality by applying super sampling selectively on the central region of a frame.This feature is available for VR applications profiled for VRSS.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Red Dead Redemption 2][Vulkan]: Improved image sharpening for Red Redemption 2 in Vulkan mode. [2781732]
[Strange Brigade - Vulkan][SLI][G-SYNC]: G-SYNC is not working properly when the Vulkan version of the game is played in SLI mode. [200439997]

441.08 WHQL (October 29th, 2019)

Gaming Technology

Adds support for GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU
Adds support for image-sharpening from NVIDIA Control Panel
Adds support for G-SYNC compatibility with NVIDIA Ultra Low Latency Mode
Adds support for 7 new G-SYNC compatible monitors
Adds support for ReShade filters within GeForce Experience
Adds support for windowed G-SYNC for OpenGL and Vulkan-based applications.

New Features and Other Changes

Added Image Sharpening control to the NVIDIA Control Panel->Manage 3D Settings page.
Increases the level of sharpness, detail, or clarity of images in games and applications.
Added Ultra Low Latency G-SYNC+ V-Sync feature
Provides tear-free, low-latency gaming using G-SYNC displays. To enable, set Low Latency Mode to Ultra, turn on V-Sync, and enable the G-SYNC display.
Added support for HDMI 2.1 VRR.

Image Sharpening Feature

NVIDIA Control Panel Image sharpening controls, including GPU upscaling, are introduced in the
R440 driver. Currently, the following limitations apply.

Scaling is not supported on MSHybrid systems.
Vulkan / OpenGL applications are currently not supported for sharpening
HDR displays driven by pre-Turing GPUs will not support scaling
Scaling will not work with VR
Scaling will not work with displays using YUV420 format.
Scaling uses aspect ration scaling and will not use integer scaling
Sharpening will not work with HDR displays
GPU scaling engages when games are played only in full-screen mode, and not in windowed or borderless windowed mode.
Some monitors, such as R2 and R3 monitors, have a 6-tap/64-phase scaler which scales better than that offered by Turing's 5-tap/32-phase scaler.
To avoid accidentally triggering scaling by applications or DWM, first change to the desired (<native) resolution from the NVIDIA Control Panel and then launch the application
Turing's 5-tap upscaler may not engage on certain monitors, based on the monitor's vblank timing.
Turing's 5-tap upscaler may not engage if the input resolution is greater than 2560px in either the x or y dimension.
Scaling is turned off automatically when switching display devices.
"Restore Defaults" option in the control panel currently does not revert the upscaling resolution.

Windows 10 Issues

[Super Robot Wars V]: The game crashes to a white screen. [2720588]
[War Thunder]: The game may crash during gameplay. [2738521]
[Battlefield V][G-SYNC][HDR]: When G-SYNC and HDR are enabled, the game cannot be maximized to full-screen after being minimized to the taskbar. [200558314]
[Grand Theft Auto V]: The game frequently crashes. NVIDIA is working with the application developer to resolve the issue.

436.30 WHQL (September 10th, 2019)

Game Ready

Provides increased performance and the optimal gaming experience for

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PC Open Beta
Gears 5
Borderlands 3.

Gaming Technology

Adds support for six new G-SYNC compatible monitors.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

Close to the Sun

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Fortnite][CS:Go]: Eliminated cases of stutter when Ultra low latency mode was enabled. [2682105]
[Forza Motorsport 6/7]: The game may crash during gameplay. [2686338]
[World of Warcraft]: The game may flicker at the character-selection screen. [2684628]
[Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M]: The GPU clock speed on some notebooks is stuck at the base clock speed and does not boost. [2683147]
[GeForce RTX 20 series][Forza Horizon 4][Gears of War 4][Gears 5]: Colored corruption may appear on some surfaces throughout the game. [200544234]
[Firefox][G-SYNC]: When G-SYNC is enabled, flickering occurs with YouTube full-screen video playback on FireFox when hovering over the timeline. [200544130]
[Control][DirectX 12][Pascal GPUs]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when in-game software Ray Tracing is enabled. [200543646]

Windows 10 Issues

[G-SYNC]: NVIDIA G-SYNC might not be enabled automatically for monitors newly approved as G-SYNC-Compatible upon updating the driver. [200544252]
To work around, enable the monitor by opening the NVIDIA Control Panel->Display->Set Up G-SYNC page, then select the display and select Enable settings for the selected display.
[SpaceEngine]: The game crashes when launched. [2684322]
[UBOAT]: The game crashes due to memory allocation issues when launching Sandbox mode from the main menu. [2694301]
[Tom Clancy's The Division II]: The game may crash when played in DirectX 12 mode. [200406322]
[FIFA 19]: The game may crash to the desktop. [2690624]

Windows 7 Issues

[Vulkan-based games]: Error message appears in the game when invoking GeForce Experience Freestyle or Ansel using the hot keys. [200549987]

436.02 WHQL (August 20th, 2019)

This is the updated version of 436.02, with the fix for "GFE always gets installed".

Game Ready

Provides increased performance and the optimal gaming experience for Apex Legends, Battlefield V, Forza Horizon 4, Strange Brigade, and World War Z.

Gaming Technology

Added Beta support for GPU Integer Scaling
New control in the NVIDIA Control Panel->Display->Adjust desktop size and position page. Supported on NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later; Windows 10 April 2018 Update and later.
Integer scaling is a new GPU scaling method which scales smaller-than-native-resolution-size source content by duplicating the pixels at the maximum possible integer factor on the horizontal and vertical directions.
Not recommended for use with HDR.
Added Beta support for Ultra-Low Latency Mode
New control in the NVIDIA Control Panel->3D->Manage 3D Settings page.
Offers improved latency for DirectX games. Currently not supported under SLI mode, DirectX 12, or on Microsoft Hybrid notebooks.
Updated the NVIDIA Control Panel->3D Settings->Texture Filtering-Quality control to default to "High Quality" for Quadro products.
Added support for new Freestyle Sharpen Filter
Released as an update to NVCamera (for Freestyle and Ansel).
Added GPU paravirtualization support for Microsoft Hybrid notebooks.
Added support for 30-bit color.
Added ability to update the NVIDIA VirtualLink PPC firmware from the NVIDIA Control Panel
Added support for new G-SYNC compatible monitors.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

BattleTech
Dakar18
Deep Rock Galactic
Fear the Night
Heavy Rain
Nelo
Overkill's The Walking Dead
PC Building Simulator
Remnant: From the Ashes
Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Warhammer: Chaosbane

Fixed Issues in this Release

[SLI][Shadow of the Tomb Raider]: The game crashes with "DXGI DEVICE HUNG Error" while being launched. [200541075]
[AutoCAD 2017][Maya]: White screen or blue-screen crash may occur. [2511117]
Mouse cursor may not render correctly after exiting a game. [2645203]
[NVIDIA Control Panel - Russian]: There is a typographical error in the Manage 3D Settings->DSR settings text. [2659281]

Windows 10 Issues

[Tom Clancy's The Division II]: The game may crash when played in DirectX 12 mode. [2587043/200406322]
[Forza Motorsport 7]: There is corruption on the tracks in the game. [2682129]
[Overwatch]: The games crashes with "Your rendering device has been lost" error. [2482278]
[HDR][Integer Scaling]: Blue-screen crash or system hang may occur when changing the resolution while using integer scaling with HDR. [200542578/200542870]
[Firefox][G-SYNC]: When G-SYNC is enabled, flickering occurs with YouTube full-screen video playback when hovering over the timeline. [200544130]
System crash occurs while installing the drivers on a system with GPUs from mixed architectures; for example, Fermi and Pascal. [2676468]

419.67 WHQL (March 25th, 2019)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Battlefield V: Firestorm, Anthem, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

Gaming Technology

Includes support for G-SYNC compatible surround mode and two new G-SYNC compatible monitors.

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Devil May Cry 5 - Not recommended
Total War: Three Kingdoms - Not recommended

New Features

Added support for Surround using GSYNC-Compatible displays on NVIDIA Turing GPUs
Verified the following displays as GSYNC-Compatible.
- ASUS VG278QR
- ASUS VG258

Fixed Issues in this Release

[DaVinci Resolve]: Performance drop occurs. [2532482]
[Ghost Recon: Wildlands][Ansel]: The game experiences low performance and stuttering and then crashes when using Ansel. [2515076]
[HDR][Far Cry:New Dawn DirectX 11]: Desktop brightness and color gets overexposed with ALT + TAB when Windows HDR is disabled and in-game HDR is enabled. [200495279]
[Total War: Warhammer 2]: Poor performance when using antialiasing. [2506465]
[Adobe]: Artifacts may appear in Adobe applications (fixed for single-GPU case). [2533911]
[Apex Legends]: Screen gets corrupted when switching from windowed mode to full-screen mode when Windows HDR is enabled.[2523309]
[GeForce Experience]: Parts of the screen are cut off when recording video with Shadowplay. [2517587]
[Turing][Star Citizen]: The game flickers and then crashes to the desktop. [2518104]
[GeForce GTX 980]: NVAPI calls take a large amount of CPU time. [2418933]
[Titan RTX]: Graphics card rises about 20 degrees Celsius when running NVLINK command to enable TCC mode. [2504836]
[GeForce RTX 2080][Notebook][Resolume Arena 6]: The game exhibits slow performance. [2511725]
[GeForce RTX 2070]: With two monitors connected and active, the second monitor flickers. [2517103]

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][Adobe]: With SLI enabled, artifacts may appear in Adobe applications. [2533911]
[SLI][HDR][Tom Clancy's The division II]: The game screen becomes unresponsive or goes blank when in-game HDR options are toggled. [200496967]
[ARK Survival]: Multiple errors and then blue-screen crash may occur when playing the game. [2453173]
[Shadow of the Tomb Raider][Ansel]: Invoking Ansel in the game causes the game to slow down or crash. [2507125]
[Ghost Recon Wildlands]: The game crashes when accessing the inventory menu. [2404783]
Random desktop flicker occurs on some multi-display PCs [2453059]

419.17 WHQL (February 22nd, 2019)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Anthem and DiRT Rally 2.0.

Gaming Technology

Includes support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

Apex Legends
Far Cry New Dawn

New Features

NVIDIA Control Panel
Updated to version 8.1.950. Added new Developer->Manage GPU Performance Counters controls.
Video Codec SDK 9.0 (Released Feb 11, 2019)
Included Features
- Supports NVENC/NVDEC on NVIDIA Turing GPUs
  NVENC API has been updated to support HEVC B-frames on Turing GPUs.
- NVENC API adds the capability to output the encoded bitstream, and motion vectors from Motion-Estimation-only mode to video memory. This avoids the overhead of copying the output from system to video memory for processing pipelines operating directly on video memory.
- NVENC API now accepts CUArray as an input buffer. The SDK contains a sample application to demonstrate how to feed Vulkan surface to NVENC using Vulkan-CUDA interop.
Optical Flow SDK 1.0 (Released Feb 11, 2019)
This is a new API for Optical Flow and stereo disparity hardware engine, available on Turing GPUs.

Driver Security - Restricting Access to GPU Performance Counters

The NVIDIA graphics driver contains a vulnerability (CVE-2018-6260) that may allow
access to application data processed on the GPU through a side channel exposed by the
GPU performance counters. GPU performance counters are needed by developers in
order to use NVIDIA developer tools such as CUPTI, Nsight Graphics, and Nsight
Compute. In order to address CVE-2018-6260 the driver needs to be updated and
additional steps listed below are needed to disable access to non-admin users. For more
information about CVE-2018-6260 visit the NVIDIA Security Bulletin 4772.
Access to GPU performance counters should be disabled for non-admin users who do
not need to use NVIDIA developer tools.

Restricting access to GPU performance counters can be accomplished through the
NVIDIA Control Panel->Developer->Manage GPU Performance Counters page (NV Control
Panel v8.1.950). Refer to the Developer->Manage GPU Performance Counters section of the
NVIDIA Control Panel Help for instructions.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Doom Eternal / Doom 2016]: Decals render as black. [2515006]
[Battlefield V]: Screen artifacts appear in the game when Texture Filtering is set to High Quality in the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2470649]
Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) is not available for monitors with 4k2k timings. [2496987]
[Iray][OptiX]: Iray GPU acceleration crashes and falls back to CPU acceleration. [2503738]
Windows 7x64/8.1x64: Fixes random application crash or TDR introduced in previous GeForce display driver 418.81. [2504448]

Windows 10 Issues

[G-SYNC]: With a G-SYNC and G-SYNC Compatible display connected in clone mode, flashing occurs on games played on the G-SYNC display with G-SYNC enabled. [200482157]
[Apex Legends]: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG error message may appear and then the game crashes.[2503360]
[Hitman 2]: Pixelated corruption appears in the game. [2504274]
[HDR][Ni no Kuni 2]: Enabling HDR causes the application to crash when launched. [2483952]
[ARK Survival]: Multiple errors and then blue-screen crash may occur when playing the game. [2453173]
[Batman: Arkham Origins]: PhysX fog renders incorrectly [2451459]
[Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
Random desktop flicker occurs on some multi-display PCs [2453059]

417.71 WHQL (January 15th, 2019)

Product Support

Added support for GeForce RTX 2060

New Features

G-SYNC Compatible Support
NVIDIA G-SYNC can now be used to activate the VRR features of G-SYNC Compatible displays. G-SYNC Compatible displays have been validated by NVIDIA to not show pulsing, flickering, or other artifacts during VRR gaming. See https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/ for the list of G-SYNC Compatible displays.
G-SYNC on G-SYNC Compatible displays is supported only with NVIDIA Pascal and later GPU architectures.
Only single displays are currently supported; multiple monitors can be connected but no more than one display should have G-SYNC enabled.

3D Vision Profiles
Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider - Not Recommended
Darksiders 3 - Fair

Fixed Issues in this Release

[GeForce GTX 1080]: GPU clock speed does not drop to idle when three monitors are enabled. [2474107]
Black screen when resuming from monitor sleep on some DisplayPort monitors. [2457142]
[Notebook]: Fixed lockup that occurred when resuming from sleep on MSI GT83 notebook [2456849]
[GeForce GTX 1060 Notebook][Gu Jian Qi Tan 3]: The application hangs during launch. [200477252]
Fixed black screen on BenQ XL2730 monitor at 144Hz refresh rate [2456730]
[Windows 7][G-SYNC]: Game FPS drops when G-SYNC is used with V-Sync. [200473408]
[SLI][3D Gaming][TU104][PG 180][Multiple apps][Win10RS5x64]Blocky Corruption when application is switched to certain resolutions [200465152]
[Shadow of the Tomb Raider]: Fixed occasional application crash in DirectX 12 mode. [200464716]

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][Shadow of the Tomb Raider][G-SYNC]: Flickering occurs in the game when launched with SLI, HDR, and G-SYNC enabled [200467122]
[HDR][Ni no Kuni 2]: Enabling HDR causes the application to crash when launched. [2483952]
[ARK Survival]: Multiple errors and then blue-screen crash may occur when playing the game. [2453173]
[Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
[G-SYNC]: Random flickering occurs when connecting G-SYNC monitor + non-G-SYNC HDMI monitor with G-SYNC enabled. [2399845]

411.63 WHQL (September 19th, 2018)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Forza Horizon 4, and FIFA 19.

Gaming Technology

Includes support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards.

New Features

Added support for CUDA 10.0
NVIDIA RTX Technology
NVIDIA RTX supports the Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API on NVIDIA Volta and Turing GPUs.

In order to get started with developing DirectX Raytracing applications accelerated by RTX, you'll need the following:
- NVIDIA Volta or Turing GPU
- Windows 10 RS4
- Microsoft's DXR developer package, consisting of DXR-enabled D3D runtimes, HLSL compiler, and headers

Vulkan 1.1
- This driver release provides full support for the new Vulkan 1.1 API and passes the Vulkan Conformance Test Suite (CTS) version 1.1.1.2.
- Includes interoperability with CUDA 10.0.
- New extensions for Turing GPUs:
  - VK_NVX_raytracing (also available for Pascal GPUs with 8GB or more video memory, and Volta GPUs)
  - VK_NV_compute_shader_derivatives
  - VK_NV_corner_sampled_image
  - VK_NV_fragment_shader_barycentric
  - VK_NV_mesh_shader
  - VK_NV_representative_fragment_test
  - VK_NV_scissor_exclusive
  - VK_NV_shader_image_footprint
  - VK_NV_shading_rate_image
- See https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/ for the full specification.

Vulkan HDR for Windows
This driver release supports the Vulkan VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace and VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extensions allowing applications to output HDR content to HDR displays via the Vulkan APIs.
OpenGL extensions for Turing GPUs
- GL_NV_compute_shader_derivatives
- GL_NV_fragment_shader_barycentric
- GL_NV_mesh_shader
- GL_NV_representative_fragment_test
- GL_NV_scissor_exclusive
- GL_NV_shading_rate_image
- GL_NV_shader_texture_footprint
See https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/index_gl.php for the full specification.

NVIDIA Control Panel

System Info shows Boost Clock values (instead of Base Clock) for Turing and later GPUs.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

HOB
Lake Ridden
NieR:Automata
Northgard
Pure Farming 2018
Raid: World War II
Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017)
TT Isle of Man

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Elder Scrolls: Online - Good
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - Not recommended

Discontinued Support

32-bit Operating Systems
Beginning with Release 396, NVIDIA is no longer releasing Game Ready drivers for 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture.
NVIDIA Fermi GPUs
Beginning with Release 396, the NVIDIA Game Ready driver no longer supports NVIDIA GPUs based on the Fermi architecture.

Limitations in This Release

The following features are not currently supported or have limited support in this driver release:

Turing GPU Driver Installation on Windows 10
Drivers for Turing GPUs will not be installed on systems with Windows 10 RS2 or earlier. This includes Windows 10 Threshold 1, Threshold 2, Redstone 1, and Redstone 2 operating systems.

Fixed Issues in this Release

Using power monitoring in GPU monitor tools causes micro stutter. [2110289/2049879]
[Monster Hunter World]: Low frame rate in the game. [2335958]
[Tom Clancy's The Division]: Graphics corruption occurs when using NVIDIA Gameworks settings. [2005096]
[Call of duty WW II ][1x3 Surround]: The center Surround display renders black screen. [200370257]
[Planetside 2][G-SYNC]: G-SYNC does not work with the game. [2221050]
[ARCHICAD][OpenGL]: The OpenGL driver crashes the application. [2093819]
[GeForce GTX 1080Ti]: Random DPC watchdog violation error when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538]
[YouTube][Mosaic with Sync]: Secondary GPU doesn't render video content on full-screen YouTube video. [200402117]

Windows 10 Issues

[GeForce GTX 1060]AV receiver switches to 2-channel stereo mode after 5 seconds of audio idle. [2204857]
[Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
[Windows Media Player][Notebook][MSHybrid]: The application crashes when run on the integrated graphics after setting the NVIDIA GPU Graphics settings to High Performance. [200450782]
[Final Fantasy XV benchmark]: The benchmark exits fails with a "Failed to initialize DLSS Library" error when running in DLSS mode. [200448245]
To work around: Delete the file Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/installer2.ngxcore/NGXCoreEtx.dll,Perform a Clean or Express installation of the NVIDIA driver.
]Turing GPU][[Netflix]: Playback resolution doesn't show 4K bit rates when using a USB-C-HDMI connection. [200449656]
[Turing GPU][Photoshop CC]: Corruption occurs after increasing image size. [200428197]

398.82 WHQL (August 1st, 2018)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth and Monster Hunter: World.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
World of Warcraft

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Monster Hunter World - Not recommended

Added or updated the following compatibility mode profiles:

Monster Hunter World - Excellent

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Surround][G-SYNC]: In Surround mode, the G-SYNC link in the NVIDIA Control Panel is missing. [200425004]
[Surround]: 1x3 Surround configuration cannot be set from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200415178]
[SLI][GeForce GTX 1080][G-SYNC][World of Warcraft: Legion][HDR]: Severe color corruption appears in the game after launching with the Windows HDR setting enabled. [200418344]
[SLI][Dark Souls Remastered]: Ghosting occurs in the game when using in-game temporal anti-aliasing. [2218297]
[NVIDIA Control Panel][Surround]: NVIDIA Surround hot keys do not work. [200394749]
[Dead by Daylight][GeForce Experience]: NVIDIA Freestyle does not work with the game. [2116198]
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][GameStream]: White dots may appear while Gamestreaming on overclocked GPU. [2194899]
[Unreal Engine 4]: Resource creation leak occurs in the driver when running Unreal Engine 4 games. [2204854]
[Wolfenstein II]: Graphical effects are missing in the game. [2248780]
[G-Sync][Multiple Apps]: Applications don't run in IFlip when using the native resolution, preventing G-Sync from triggering. [200416974]
[Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus]: Black textures appear in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. [200419742]
[GeForce GTX 1080]: Dolby Vision no longer works after updating LG TV firmware to 4.70.x. [200420847]

Windows 10 Issues

[G-SYNC]: Windowed G-Sync mode may stutter after upgrading to Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. [2097340]
[Euro Truck Simulator 2][DirectX NVCamera]: Performance drop occurs after enabling Freestyle for the game. [200435356]
[Netflix Edge Browser]: When playing a game in full-screen mode and playing a video from the Netflix Edge Browser, blue-screen crash occurs after multiple [Alt+Tab] switching between the two. [200415750]The issue does not occur when playing the Netflix video in a Chrome browser.
[Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
Windowed G-Sync mode may stutter after upgrading to Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. [2097340]
Random DPC watchdog violation errors occur when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538]
Using power monitoring in GPU monitor tools causes micro stutter. [2110289/2049879]

398.36 WHQL (June 26th, 2018)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for The Crew 2.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

Dark Souls Remastered
Hand of Fate 2
Need for Speed Payback
Super Mega Baseball 2

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Output Zero - Good

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Pascal GPUs][Gears of War 4][DirectX12]: Blue-screen crash may occur while playing the game. [2008731]
[Sterescopic 3D][NVIDIA Control Panel]: Switching the 3D display setting On and Off from the Windows display settings page has no effect on the NVIDIA Control Panel stereoscopic 3D settings page. [2045222]
[G-SYNC]: G-SYNC may still be active after closing a game, causing the desktop to stutter. []
[Surround]: Multiple games crash when launched in Surround mode. [2181329]
[HDR]: With HDR turned on, non HDR full-screen video playback may cause corruption/flickering in the video. [200410646]
[Notebook]: Blue-screen crash occurs with Driver_Power_State_Failure error upon bootup. [2168487]
Black Screen appears when booting Windows after installing the 397.93 display driver. [200418217]

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][GeForce GTX 1080][G-SYNC][World of Warcraft: Legion][HDR]: Severe color corruption appears in the game after launching with the Windows HDR setting enabled. [200418344]
This issue does not occur with the Windows HDR setting disabled.
[Surround][G-SYNC]: In Surround mode, the G-SYNC link in the NVIDIA Control Panel is missing. [200425004]
[Surround SLI][G-SYNC][Overwatch]: There is constant flickering in the game when played in a specific SLI Surround configuration (2 displays on master GPU and 1 display on slave GPU) with G-Sync mode enabled. [2130430]
[G-SYNC]: Windowed G-Sync mode may stutter after upgrading to Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. [2097340]
[Shadow Warrior 2][TITAN V]: After launching the game with Windows HDR setting enabled, there is flickering corruption when hovering the mouse over the game screen. [200408410]
The issue does not occur with Windows HDR setting disabled.
[GeForce TITAN (Kepler-based)]: The OS fails after installing the graphics card on a Threadripper-enabled motherboard. [1973303]
[Netflix Edge Browser]: When playing a game in full-screen mode and playing a video from the Netflix Edge Browser, blue-screen crash occurs after multiple [Alt+Tab] switching between the two. [200415750]
The issue does not occur when playing the Netflix video in a Chrome browser.
[Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
[NVIDIA Control Panel][Surround]: NVIDIA Surround hot keys do not work. [200394749]
Random DPC watchdog violation errors occur when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538]
Using power monitoring in GPU monitor tools causes micro stutter. [2110289/2049879]

397.93 WHQL (May 24th, 2018)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for The Crew Closed Beta and State of Decay 2.

New Features

Added support for CUDA 9.2.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

DRG Initiative
Star Wars: Battlefront II

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

The Crew 2 - Good

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Notebook][GeForce GTX 870M]: GPU acceleration is being used for Windows Explorer. [2003577]
[SLI][Steam]: Steam must be closed to enable or disable SLI mode. [2091966]
[Surround][Digital Vibrance]: Digital Vibrance setting is not persistent, and reverts to the default setting when rebooting with Surround mode enabled. [2097240]
[Wolfenstein II]: The game may freeze in the Roosevelt area. [2114563]
[NVIDIA Control Panel]: When Windows HDR is enabled, some color formats are missing from the NVIDIA Control Panel->Display->Change Resolution page. [2117226]
[Pascal GPU + Kepler GPU]: After installing the driver and rebooting the system, the driver may fail to load. [200394820]
[Far Cry 5]: Green flickering occurs in the game when using HDR with non-native resolution. [200399992]

Changes in this Release

Removed Experience Improvement Program from the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][Hitman Pro: DirectX 12]: With SLI mode enabled, the game crashes if in-game HDR is ON and Windows HDR setting is OFF at lower resolutions. [200415553]
[Surround SLI][G-Sync][Overwatch]: There is constant flickering in the game when played in a specific SLI Surround configuration (2 displays on master GPU and 1 display on slave GPU) with G-Sync mode enabled. [2130430]
[Shadow Warrior 2][TITAN V]: After launching the game with Windows HDR setting enabled, there is flickering corruption when hovering the mouse over the game screen. [200408410]
The issue does not occur with Windows HDR setting disabled.
[GeForce TITAN (Kepler-based)]: The OS fails after installing the graphics card on a Threadripper-enabled motherboard. [1973303]
[Pascal GPUs][Gears of War 4]: Blue-screen crash may occur while playing the game. [2008731]
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti]{Warhammer Vermintide 2][DirectX 12]: TDR errors may occur when changing resolutions in game. [200395335].
To work around, use the DirectX 11 game option.
[Notebook][GeForce GTX 1060]: The external HDMI display blinks when playing a video from the Netflix Edge Browser or Blu-ray video in full-screen mode with Windows HDR enabled. [200410646]
The issue does not occur when playing the Netflix video in a Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer 11 browser.
[Netflix Edge Browser]: When playing a game in full-screen mode and playing a video from the Netflix Edge Browser, blue-screen crash occurs after multiple [Alt+Tab] switching between the two. [200415750]
The issue does not occur when playing the Netflix video in a Chrome browser.
[DOTA 2][Vulkan API]: With Vulkan mode enabled, the game item slot glitches. [1877720]
[Dead by Daylight]: NVIDIA Freestyle does not work with the game. [2116198]
[Call of Duty: WWII][Surround]: With Surround enabled, the center Surround display is blank during gameplay. [200370257]
[NVIDIA Control Panel][Surround]: NVIDIA Surround hot keys do not work. [200394749]
[GeForce Experience][ShadowPlay]: The "In-Game Overlay" option cannot be enabled, nor does Shadowplay recording work. [200390642]
The Microsoft Media Foundation library must be installed in order to use these features. Be sure to first install the Media Foundation package.
Random DPC watchdog violation errors occur when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538]
With HDR turned on, non HDR full-screen video playback may cause corruption/flicker in the video. [200410646]
To avoid this scenario, disable Windows HDR setting before launching the video.

Windows 7 Issues

[Call of Duty: WWII][Surround]: With Surround enabled, the center Surround display is blank during gameplay. [200370257]

397.31 WHQL (April 25th, 2018)

Discontinued Support

32-bit Operating Systems: Beginning with Release 396, NVIDIA is no longer releasing Game Ready drivers for 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture.
NVIDIA Fermi GPUs: Beginning with Release 396, the NVIDIA Game Ready driver no longer supports NVIDIA GPUs based on the Fermi architecture.

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for BattleTech and FrostPunk.

New Features

NVIDIA RTXTM Technology

Developer preview for NVIDIA RTX ray tracing technology for DirectX 12. NVIDIA RTX supports the Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API on NVIDIA Volta GPUs.
In order to get started with developing DirectX Raytracing applications accelerated by RTX, you'll need the following:

NVIDIA Volta GPU
NVIDIA driver version 396 or higher
Windows 10 RS4
Microsoft's DXR developer package, consisting of DXR-enabled D3D runtimes, HLSL compiler, and headers

Vulkan 1.1

This driver release provides full support for the new Vulkan 1.1 API and passes the Vulkan Conformance Test Suite (CTS) version 1.1.0.3.

HD Audio

This driver adds new sample rates 32 kHz, 88.2 kHz, and 176.4 kHz to the HDMI device for all GPUs

Display Driver Standalone Installer

The standalone display driver installer now removes extracted files after installing the driver, leaving a smaller footprint on the hard drive.

Display Driver Libraries

Added new libraries (nvdlist.dll and nvdlistx.dll) to support Optimus and MSHybrid notebooks.

NVDECODE API

Added a new API that lets the client reconfigure the decoder resolution and other post processing parameters (such as the display resolution, cropping rectangle, and aspect ratio of the decoded frame) without having to destroy and recreate the decoder instance. This API is useful in scenarios where the decoder instance initialization time takes up a significant portion of the overall decode execution time; for example, in back-to-back decoding of multiple short clips of different resolutions.
The new API will be included in Video Codec SDK 8.2, which is expected to release in late Q2 2018.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

Descenders
Frostpunk
Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Far Cry 5

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Descenders - Good
EVE Valkyrie - Warzone - Good

Fixed Issues in this Release

[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Doom]: The game crashes due to the driver reverting to OpenGL 1.1 when HDR is enabled. [2049623]
[GeForce GTX 1060][Far Cry 5]: The game crashes after a few minutes of game play. [2096077]
NvfbcPluginWindow temporarily prevents Windows from shutting down after launching a Steam game. [2068833]
[Firefox]: Driver TDR error may occur when using Firefox. [2049523]
[GeForce GTX 1060][Rise of Tomb Raider]: Flickering/corruption occurs when opening the in-game options UI. [200351146]
[NVIDIA Control Panel][SLI][Diablo III]: With V-Sync on and SLI enabled, the game freezes after switching windows (ALT+TAB) a few times. [1951584]

Windows 10 Issues

[Microsoft Edge][HDR] With HDR turned ON, video playback in full-screen mode on an HDR display may cause corruption of the video and desktop. To recover, manually turn the monitor OFF and then back ON. A future driver
[Far Cry 5]: Green flickering occurs in the game when using HDR with non-native resolution. To work around, either quit and then restart the game while in the desired resolution, or press [Alt+tab] away from and then back to the game, or press [Alt+Enter] to switch to windowed mode and then back to full-screen mode.
[NVIDIA TITAN V][G-Sync]: G-Sync displays may go blank when switching between different overclocked memory clocks multiple times. [200361272]
[SLI][GeForce GTX 780 Ti]: There is no display output when connecting the DisplayPort and two DVI monitors. [1835763]
[GeForce TITAN (Kepler-based)]: The OS fails after installing the graphics card on a Threadripper-enabled motherboard. [1973303]
[Pascal GPUs][Gears of War 4]: Blue-screen crash may occur while playing the game. [2008731]
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti]{Warhammer Vermintide 2][DirectX 12]: TDR errors may occur when changing resolutions in game. [200395335]. To work around, use the DirectX 11 game option.
[NVIDIA Control Panel][Surround]: NVIDIA Surround hot keys do not work. [200394749]
[GeForce Experience][ShadowPlay]: The "In-Game Overlay" option cannot be enabled, nor does Shadowplay recording work. [200390642]
The Microsoft Media Foundation library must be installed in order to use these features. Be sure to first install the Media Foundation package.

391.35 WHQL (March 27th, 2018)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Far Cry 5.

Security Updates
This driver adds security updates for driver components. Fixed issues are CVE-2018-6247, CVE-2018-6248, CVE-2018-6249, CVE-2018-6250, CVE-2018-6251, CVE-2018-6252, CVE-2018-6253. These CVEs are related to kernel mode, DirectX 10 and OpenGL drivers where certain operations may lead to Denial of Service or Escalation of Privileges.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

GRIP
WRC 7

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Far Cry - Not recommended
GRIP - Excellent
The Talos Principle - Excellent

Fixed Issues in this Release

GeForce 3D Profile Manager tool can't import profiles. [2076480]
[GeForce Experience]: Memory leak occurs leading to poor game performance when using NVIDIA Freestyle. [2068039]
[NVIDIA Control Panel][SLI][Diablo III]: With V-Sync on and SLI enabled, the game freezes after switching windows (ALT+TAB) a few times. [1951584]
[Notebook]: The driver may fail to initialize the GPU. [200354056]

Windows 10 Issues

[Far Cry 5]: Green flickering occurs in the game when using HDR with non-native resolution. To work around, either quit and then restart the game while in the desired resolution, or press [Alt+tab] away from and then back to the game, or press [Alt+Enter] to switch to windowed mode and then back to full-screen mode.
[NVIDIA TITAN V][G-Sync]: G-Sync displays may go blank when switching between different overclocked memory clocks multiple times. [200361272]
[SLI][GeForce GTX 780 Ti]: There is no display output when connecting the DisplayPort and two DVI monitors. [1835763]
[GeForce TITAN (Kepler-based)]: The OS fails after installing the graphics card on a Threadripper-enabled motherboard. [1973303]
[Pascal GPUs][Gears of War 4]: Blue-screen crash may occur while playing the game. [2008731]
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Doom]: The game crashes due to the driver reverting to OpenGL 1.1 when HDR is enabled. [2049623]

385.69 WHQL (September 21st, 2017)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Project Cars 2, Call of Duty: WWII open beta, Total War: WARHAMMER II, Forza Motorsport 7, EVE: Valkyrie - Warzone, FIFA 18, Raiders of the Broken Planet, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 open beta.

Game Ready VR

Provides the optimal gaming experience for EVE: Valkyrie - Warzone and From Other Suns open beta.
Security Update
This driver adds security updates for driver components.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Fortnite
JX3 Online
Project CARS 2
Raiders of the broken planet
Total War: WARHAMMER II

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Call of Duty: WWII - Good
Project CARS 2 - Good
Raiders of the Broken Planet - Not recommended
Total War: Warhammer II - Not recommended

Changes and Fixed Issues

[SLI][ShadowPlay][Doom (4)]: Severe flickering occurs in the game after pressing Alt + Tab with SLI enabled and either instant replay is ON or manual capture is in progress. [200339933]
[GeForce GTX 1070][Surround]: The [Ctrl+Alt+S] keyboard shortcut does not enable or disable Surround. [1932397]
[GeForce GTX 1050 Ti][The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth]: Low frame rate and lagging occurs when playing the game in full-screen mode. [200332803]
[Notebook][GeForce GTX 1080][G-Sync]: With G-Sync enabled, stuttering occurs when playing games on the external display. [1931970]
[GeForce GTX 970M][Notebook][HitFilm Express]: The application UI does not respond properly. [1960402]
[Notebook][Minecraft]: Low frame rates when playing the game in full-screen mode on Optimus notebooks. [1976442]
[Optimus notebook][Minecraft]: r] 385.28: Low FPS in Minecraft full screen mode on Optimus laptops after driver update [1976442]
[Optimus notebook][OpenGL]: Heavy flickering occurs while playing any OpenGL application such as HeavenBenchmark or OglBalls. [200342028]
[Discord]: FPS overlay erroneously appears in the application if enabled in GeForce Experience. [1965135]
[Runescape]: Lower frame rate occurs. [1971953]
[Windows Store apps][G-Sync]: ]: Video playback from Windows store apps stutter and eventually freeze with G-sync enabled in full screen mode. [1941728]
[WindowedG-Sync][Universal Windows Platform apps]: The Start menu loads sluggishly when switching the focus between a UWP game and the Start menu. [200335442]
HDR TV/displays have distorted colors after changing the resolution from the Windows control panel [200335229]
[NVENC]: Bitrate overshoot occurs if the frame rate is over 240 fps. [1977965]
[ANSEL][Aven Colony]: Enable updated .exe for Aven Colony. [1935398]

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][GeForce GTX 780 Ti]: There is no display output when connecting the DisplayPort and two DVI monitors. [1835763]
[GeForce GTX 1070][Adobe Reader 3D]: There is corruption in the PDF. [1992456]
[GeForce TITAN]: The OS fails after installing the graphics card on a Threadripper-enabled motherboard. [1973303]

384.94 WHQL (July 24th, 2017)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for LawBreakers, ARK: Survival Evolved,
Fortnite Early Access, Dark and Light, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

Game Ready VR
Provides the optimal gaming experience for EVE: Valkyrie's "Ultra" graphics update.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

ARK: Survival Evolved
IL-2: Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad
Lawbreakers

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Not Recommended
Lawbreakers - Fair
ARK: Survival Evolved - Not Recommended

Changes and Fixed Issues

[SLI][GeForce GTX 980][IL2-Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad]: There is no performance improvement under DirectX 11 after enabling SLI. [1903543]
[Star Ruler 2]: The game crashes within minutes of gameplay. [1945976]
[Titan Xp][Mass Effect - Andromeda]: After launching the game in full-screen mode, HDR cannot be enabled from the in-game HDR settings. [200315052]
[GeForce TX 1070/1080][Shadow Warrior 2]: Windows HDR settings conflict with in-game HDR settings, resulting in color over-saturation. [1882582]
[GeForce GTX 970][Gears of War 4]: The game may freeze with Release 384 drivers.[1954654]
[GeForce GTX 780/780 Ti][NieR:Automata]: The screen may freeze during gameplay. [1892334]
[Titan X][Watch Dogs 2]: The game may crash when launched. [1952270]
[GeForce GTX][DNF]: Poor game performance. [1936955]
[Windows Store - Channel 9 / rPlay]: In full-screen mode, the application playback becomes choppy and then the application crashes. [1953090]
[GeForce GTX 980][DisplayPort]: There is no signal on the monitor after turning the monitor off and then back on. [1904801]

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][GeForce GTX 780 Ti]: There is no display output when connecting the DisplayPort and two DVI monitors. [1835763]
[GeForce GTX 1070][Surround]: The [Ctrl+Alt+S] keyboard shortcut does not enable or disable Surround. [1932397]
[GeForce GTX 1070][Doom]: The GPU clocks remain running at high performance speeds after exiting from the game. [1954033]
[GeForce GTX 970][Quantum Break]: Drop in frame rate occurs when playing the game. [1955903]

384.76 WHQL (June 29th, 2017)

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Lawbreakers "Rise Up" Beta.

Game Ready VR

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Spider-man: Homecoming VR.

New Features

NVIDIA Control Panel: Added debug option in the Help menu.
Selecting this option removes all overclocking performance and power settings.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

FIFA 17

Fixed

[NVIDIA Control Panel][Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances]: Fixed a typo in the game name on the Stereoscopic 3D Compatibility page. [1441041]
[3DVision]: CPU bottleneck occurs when 3DVision is enabled. [1823627]
[GeForce GTX 1080/1070/1060][Prey (2]: Large amount of stuttering occurs throughout gameplay. [1902201]
[Gamestream][DirectX 12 titles]: DirectX 12 titles fail to capture when streaming. [1903492]
[Firefall]: The game does not run. [1911485]
[GeForce GTX 970][SLI][Norton 360]: SLI cannot be enabled unless Norton 360 is disabled or in Safe mode. [1919094]
[Doom 2016][Vulkan API]: Glitches occur when using the Vulkan API. [1935744]
[No Man's Sky][SLI]: Texture corruption appears in the game with SLI enabled.[200257478]
[Windows Store video app]: Video playback is choppy with V-Sync OFF. [200314351]

Windows 10 Issues

[VR Funhouse]: The game crashes upon hot-unplugging and then hot-plugging the HMD device. [200321374]
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Sid Meier's Civilization VI][G-Sync/SLI/DirectX 12]: Black corruption appears while entering the in-game menu after skipping the cutscene. [200283322]
[GeForce GTX 780/780 Ti][NieR:Automata]: The game freezes. [1892334]
[Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Tom Clancy's The Division Survival DLC]: Game crashes, pointing to ntdll.dll when changed to full-screen and to windowed full-screen. [200252894]
[Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][ShadowPlay][For Honor]: The game silently may crash if the intro video is skipped while instant replay is on. [200247313]
[SLI][Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Gears of War 4]: Level loading may hang. [1826307]
[GeForce Experience]: Driver installation may fail when attempting to perform a driver overinstall.
To workaround, perform a clean installation.
Error code 43 appears in the Device Manager after installing the driver with HDMI display connected. [200283276]
Driver install/overinstall requires a reboot. [1757931]

Windows 7 Issues

[GeForce GTX 1080] Battlefield 1 hangs when campaign loaded with Fast Sync enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200254350]

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