Nvidia Geforce Drivers Release Announcement thread

Developer Beta Driver Downloads
April 2, 2020

Windows 442.88, Linux 440.66.08

Windows 442.88
Linux 440.66.08
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
 
GeForce 445.87 WHQL Game Ready Driver

Version: 445.87 WHQL
Release Date: 2020.4.15
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8, Windows 10
Language: English (US)
File Size: 460.94 MB


Game Ready for the Minecraft with RTX Beta
The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for the Minecraft with RTX Beta. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered, Saints Row: The Third Remastered, and SnowRunner.

Software Module Versions
 nView - 149.77
 HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.26
 NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218
 GeForce Experience - 3.20.3.63
 CUDA - 10.2
 Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0
 DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.956.0

Fixed Issues in this Release
 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti][Rise Of The Tomb Raider - DirectX 12]: Blue-screen crash occurs after playing the game for 5-10 minutes. [2904755/2847526]
 [Doom Eternal]: There is black flickering in the game. [2904116]
 Some DirectX 11 games may fail to launch when Image Sharpening is enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel: [2901920]
 [Notebook]: Graphical corruption may occur after resume from display sleep. [2859247]

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
 [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
 [Notebook][GeForce 1050 Ti MaxQ]: The screen displays corruption after waking from display off. [2859247]
 [SLI][Doom Eternal]: Corruption occurs in the game upon opening the Steam overlay. [200593967]
 (Battlefield 5, Destiny 2)[HDR]: With HDR enabled, the games appear too bright. [2909218]
 [Monster Hunter World Iceborne]: Artifacts appear in the game. [2903858]
 [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.


Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v445.87)
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
 
Developer Beta Driver Downloads
April 18, 2020

Windows 442.98, Linux 440.66.09
  • New:
    • Added support for more acceleration structure vertex formats
  • Fixes:
    • Fixed some VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingFeaturesKHR to be advertised correctly for the current GPU
    • Fixed potential crash when pipeline pInputAssemblyState is NULL for mesh shaders
    • Fixed memory alignment and type for ray tracing scratch memory
    • Fixed some issues with ray tracing queries
    • Fixed an issue with ray tracing pipeline creating with pipeline libraries
    • Fixed some window state transitions when using HDR [Windows]
Windows 442.98
Linux 440.66.09
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
 
Developer Beta Driver Downloads
May 11, 2020

Windows 443.15, Linux 440.66.14
  • New:
  • Fixes:
    • Fixed the returned pCheckpointDataCount value for vkGetQueueCheckpointDataNV when there are less than the requested values
    • Process the VkTimelineSemaphoreSubmitInfo structure correctly for vkQueueBindSparse
    • Fixed vec3 immediate indexing in ray tracing shaders
Windows 443.15
Linux 440.66.14
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
 
GeForce 446.14 WHQL Game Ready Driver

Version: 446.14 WHQL
Release Date: 2020.5.27
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit
Language: English (UK)
File Size: 459.64 MB

Game Ready for Valorant
The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Valorant. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Minecraft Dungeons, Disintegration, and Crucible.

Software Module Versions
 nView - 149.77  HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.26
 NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218 1.
 GeForce Experience - 3.20.3.63
 CUDA - 10.2
 Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0
 DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.956.0

New Features and Other Changes
 Added Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) support for Onward.


Fixed Issues in this Release
 [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.


Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v446.14)
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
 
Developer Beta Driver Downloads
May 26th, 2020

Windows 443.24, Linux 440.66.15
  • Fixes:
    • Fixed 16-bit SMin/SMax
    • CPU performance improvements for VkFence creation and usage [Linux]
    • Fixed a bug where vkUpdateDescriptorSetWithTemplate would ignore the stride parameter for some VkDescriptorType values
    • Fixed an issue with the Optimus layer selecting the iGPU when there was an application profile with Auto-select as the preferred graphics processor [Windows]
    • Fixed layout of compute shader shared memory that may have resulted in a compiler crash
    • Fixed a bug where vkCreateSampler would fail with no borderColor data, even though it wasn't needed
    • Fixed a compiler issue processing image operation with extra unused coordinate operand components
      Fixed writing to dynamically indexed vec2 and vec3 fragment color outputs
Windows 443.24
Linux 440.66.15
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
 
TechPowerUp GPU-Z
v2.32.0 (May 29th, 2020)
  • Added NVIDIA per-rail voltage and power monitoring
  • Fixed WDDM 2.7 Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling readout in Advanced Tab to report "Disabled, not supported" instead of "Unknown (8)" on Windows 10 2004 with AMD graphics card
  • Added support for Intel Comet Lake 10th Generation CPUs
  • Added support for AMD Radeon Pro W5700X, WX 4170
  • Added support for GTX 1650 Ti Mobile (TU116-A), NVIDIA Tesla V100S-PCIE-32GB
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/
 
GeForce 451.48 WHQL Game Ready Driver

Version: 451.48 WHQL
Release Date: 2020.6.24
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Win 10
Language: English (UK)
File Size: 470.14 MB


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.

Software Module Versions
 nView - 200.63
 HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.34
 NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218
 GeForce Experience - 3.20.3.63
 CUDA - 11.0
 Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0
 DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.958.0

New Features and Other Changes
 Driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.

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] Note: 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.
 [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]

Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v451.48)
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
 
GeForce 451.67 WHQL Game Ready Driver

Version: 451.67 WHQL
Release Date: 2020.7.9
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Win 10
Language: English (UK)
File Size: 469.75 MB


Game Ready for Death Stranding
This new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Death Stranding.
In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition and F1 2020.

Software Module Versions
 nView - 200.63
 HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.34
 NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218
 GeForce Experience - 3.20.3.63
 CUDA - 11.0
 Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0
 DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.958.0

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]

Open Issues in Version 451.67 WHQL

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 Hardwareaccelerated 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] Note: 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.
 [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]


Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v451.67)
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
 
Vulkan Beta Driver Release Updates
July 9th, 2020

Windows 451.74, Linux 450.56.01

Vulkan Ray Tracing

In addition to Vulkan 1.2, these Vulkan beta developer drivers also support the Khronos provisional VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension. The core ray tracing functionality, as indicated by the VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingFeaturesKHR.rayTracing feature bit, is available on the following GPUs:
  • Turing with RT Cores: TITAN RTX, and all Turing GeForce RTX and Quadro RTX GPUs
  • Turing without RT Cores: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660 Super and GeForce GTX 1660
  • Volta: NVIDIA TITAN V and Quadro GV100 GPUs
  • Pascal with 6GB video memory or more: NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, Quadro P6000, Quadro P5x00, Quadro P4x00 and Quadro P3200

  • New:
  • Fixes:
    • Make the pSizes parameters of vkCmdBindVertexBuffers2EXT be relative to the pBuffers+pOffsets
    • Fixed potential crash in the first vkQueuePresentKHR() call after creating a new VkSwapchainKHR with a non-NULL oldSwapchain
    • Fixed potential crash in vkCmdBeginRenderPass() when using VK_EXT_sample_locations

Windows 451.74
Linux 450.56.01

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
 
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Vulkan Beta Driver Downloads
July 20th, 2020
Windows 451.79, Linux 450.56.02

Windows driver version 451.79 and Linux driver version 450.56.02 contain newly released Vulkan features and bug fixes for Vulkan developers.

Windows 451.79
Linux 450.56.02
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
 
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GeForce 452.06 WHQL Game Ready Driver

Version: 452.06 WHQL
Release Date: 2020.8.17
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Language: English (US)
File Size: 472.05 MB


Game Ready for Microsoft Flight Simulator
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 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.

Software Module Versions
 nView - 200.75
 HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.34
 NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218 1.
 GeForce Experience - 3.20.4.14
 CUDA - 11.0
 Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0
 DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.958.0

Fixed Issues in this Release
 [Shadow of the Tomb Raider][DirectX 12]: The game may crash when launched if Hardwareaccelerated GPU scheduling is enabled. [3037544]
 [Death Stranding]: Texture corruption may be observed during gameplay on GeForce GTX 16/ RTX 20 series GPUs. [200631405]
 [Path of Exile]: Black square corruption appears around characters.[3038439]
 [Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed]: The game crashes when playing in a water level. [3028931]
 [Forza Motorsport 7]: The game starts to stutter after racing a few laps. [3035005]
 [Zhan Ge Jing Ji Chang]: Corruption occurs in the game when played in the Tencent mobile game simulator. [200631684]
 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]
 The NVIDIA Control Panel does not display the native resolution of some HDTVs if the timings are invalid. [3060459]
 Some displays may show a green tint when Windows Night Light is enabled. [3038686]
 Snow appears on the display upon waking up the HDMI monitor. [3039265]
 [Notebook][Turing] Display may show pixelated corruption on waking notebook from long display off [200633139]

Open Issues in Version 452.06 WHQL

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][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. Note: 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.
 [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]

Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v452.06)
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk
 
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