A few days ago, NVIDIA released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver offers optimal experience in Atomic Heart and the closed Beta of THE FINALS.
Furthermore, this new driver enables RTX Video Super Resolution. By using this tech, RTX owners can enhance low-quality videos when viewed on Google Chrome or Edge. This new feature is only available for the RTX30 and RTX40 series. Also note that it will significantly increase your GPU usage/utilization.
The NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver also comes with some game fixes. For instance, it addresses some occasional stability issues in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It also resolves some freeze issues that could occur in Forza Horizon 4 after 15-30 minutes of gameplay. And lastly, it officially enables reBAR for Dead Space Remake.
As always, you can download the driver from here. Below you can also find its complete changelog.
NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL Driver Release Notes
Game Ready
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new titles supporting NVIDIA DLSS 3 technology including Atomic Heart and the closed Beta of THE FINALS.
GeForce Experience
- Atomic Heart
- Company of Heroes 3
- Hogwarts Legacy
- PERISH
- Sons Of The Forest
- The Settlers: New Allies
- Warlander
Gaming Technology
Introduces support for RTX Video Super Resolution (article here).
Fixed Issues
- [Steam version] Forza Horizon 4 may freeze after 15-30 minutes of gameplay
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 occasional stability issues
- Enable Dead Space Resizable Bar profile
- Adobe After Effects / Media Encoder – issues with ProRes RAW files
- Adobe Premiere Pro application instability
Known Issues
- Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used.
- Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled.
- [Halo Wars 2] In-game foliage is larger than normal and displays constant flickering
- [GeForce RTX 4090] Watch Dogs 2 may display flickering when staring at the sky
- Increase in DPC latency observed in Latencymon
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I can confirm that video super resolution works with the latest build of Ungoogled Chromium. It does an okay job of cleaning up lower resolution content (especially 2D content), but like John mentioned, it’s very GPU heavy. I got frequent frame drops when watching a 1080p/60fps video, and at 1440p/60fps it becomes an unwatchable stutter-fest. This is on an RTX 3060 Ti though, so maybe those with beefy GPUs will have a much smoother experience. The massive increase in GPU usage might’ve been justified if the end result was MUCH better than the source video, but in its current form it’s just meh and not worth it IMO.
737MB!
Yeah why not an nvidiaOS at this point.
Reply to self: don’t give them ideas!
Technically those already exist.
Search for:
NVIDIA Jetson Linux
&
NVIDIA Cumulus Linux
driver installation becoming like a whole OS installation,soon we will need additional hardware so we can install drivers for other hardware, 80% bloat and useless stuff jammed in those 800mb
Terrible driver.
– DPC latency still not fixed.
– Video Super Resolution makes ~350W power draw.
– One of NVContainer processes, for no reason has high CPU usage.
– Plenty of reprots of performance degradation and visual artifacts.
– NV icon tray broken.
keep crying amdrone, Nvidia is the best GPU company
Linus, Luke, and Jake from Linus Tech Tips/Floatplane are going to be using AMD GPU’s exclusively for a month to put that to a test. Initial reports are that they aren’t noticing a difference going from NVIDIA GPU’s to AMD GPU’s, other than the performance increase of going from RTX 30 series GPU’s to AMD RX 7000 series GPU’s.
Excuse me, low life form.
I’am not a AMDdrone you dirty little t*sser.
Those problems are reported straight from Nvidia users and forums.
Yeah it seems the nvcontainer process was eating up 10% of my CPU cycles for some reason. Restarting the service seems to have fixed it at least. And hasn’t that DPC latency issue been around for years now? Why is nvidia not prioritizing this? Is it because it’s not a big enough issue? I’m genuinely asking, because I don’t know the implications of what having high DPC latency means for my system.
I hadn’t heard of this before either.
Googling reveals that it’s a Windows-specific issue:
Nvidia Telemetry is causing the high CPU usage from NVContainer.
Good folks from guru3d tracked down this.
It’s not the first time NV Telemtry does this.
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VSR works well for movies and real life video ….. However it sucks up a ton of resources if it’s a video of a game …. It’s made for traditional movies of real things not really for gaming videos in low resolutions …. They’d almost have to make two different algorithms one for traditional video and another for gameplay videos …. It seems to me they “trained” it on movies and TV shows type of content and not gaming videos
For some reason YouTube videos use an excess of power while watching streaming services such as Prime, Peacock, HBO+ and Marquee network (Cubs baseball 720p stream) it just cruises right along. For instance on Marquee upscaling from 720p to 1440p it was averaging 69 watts while on YouTube over 200 watts
Wonder how much this would downgrade my legacy card, every new driver seems to make older cards work worse to encourage people to buy new.
That’s Horseshit.
Stop FUDing and try it yourself, it’s simple enough.
I busted that Testing Games clown about a year ago where he was comparing two graphics cards and in one of the games he was playing he showed a cut scene in AC Odyssey (The Leonidas battle with the Persians) and one card was running it at 63 and the other at 70 ….. Problem is the that cutscene is really a WebM video locked to 30 FPS. I’ve played that game on a 1060 a 1660 Ti a RX5700 (Non-XT with an XT Bios) a 2080 and a 3070 Ti and it’s ALWAYS 30 FPS
Of course he just deleted my message calling him out and even pointing people to where the video is in the game and how they can play it themselves in VLC
It’s been out for a couple of days now lol
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When the driver released I installed it and turned on RTX Video Super Resolution, then restarted my browser and opened an MxR_Plays video and… oh God, what it did to their faces…
RTX Video Super Resolution looks OK with gameplay videos, and even some live action looks OK, but it isn’t OK everywhere. Since I watch more MxR_Plays on YouTube these days than anything else, I think I’ll avoid it for now.
Oh, and one of the “NVDisplay.Container.exe” processes suddenly eating up 100% of a CPU core was lovely. My CPU usage graphs were bouncing all over the place as Windows was moving the thread from one CPU core to another. Had to restart NVIDIA driver services to get it to stop.
Hmmm, Spider-Man: Miles Morales seems to run worse on this driver than the previous. I get stutter every now and then with this driver. On the driver before this one it was smooth as silk. *sigh*