NVIDIA released today its highly anticipated DirectX 12 performance driver. According to the release notes, the GeForce 378.78 driver offers optimal performance in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands and includes DirectX 12 optimizations which provide additional performance increases for a variety of titles.
According to NVIDIA, users should see improvements across multiple GPU architectures although the amount of improvements will vary by system configuration.
In other words, these DX12 performance improvements are not exclusive to NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture.
Those interested can download this new driver from here.
And here are the release notes for the NVIDIA GeForce 378.78 WHQL driver.
Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
Gaming Technology
Includes DirectX 12 optimizations which provide additional performance increases for a variety of titles
SLI Profiles: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Titanfall 2, Tom Clancy’s The Division
Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 378.78
- [Discord]: The GFE FPS counter appears in the application. [200281089]
- [GeForce 1050 Ti][Notebook]: Blue-screen crash occurs on some notebook platforms. [1877803]
- [GeForce GTX 980 Ti][PhysX]: PhysX uses the CPU when Optimize for Compute Performance setting is OFF, resulting in a drop in performance. [1871405]
- [GeForce GTX 980][CUDA]: Driver error occurs when trying to compute with GPUGrid CUDA application.[1869402]
- [GeForce GTX 980 Ti][OpenCL]: Driver error occurs when trying to compute PrimeGrid Genefer OpenCL tool. [1867576]
- [NVENC][Steam]: NvFBC H.264 encode crashes. [1867544]
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someone report if there’s any gain if you’ve got some of those dx12 games installed on your hard drive
Check guru 3d. They just posted some quick data vs last driver
looks like a solid driver update
i did have my witcher 3 crash a lot with the previous driver
could not pinpoint the cause of the crash, but judging by the update here, it’s probably due to PhysiX
Why do you think it’s PhysX? This game does not use GPU PhysX…
the driver update didn’t seem to fix $hite
and i figured what’s the problem
it’s unstable FPS
when you go from 80 to below 60 the refresh rate (V-sync off, using G-sync) becomes unstable and just crashes (no error or nothing, just poof)
so i’ed either lock the FPS to 60, or have to endure the occasional crashes
Witcher 3 doesn’t use Physx at all, it uses Havok. It’s purely CPU based.
It’s not a DX12 performance driver.
Nvidia showed off a slide displaying DX12 driver performance improvements they’ve made since the launch of several DX12 games, where the performance for each game has slowly improved over many driver releases (as is normal with drivers). But the effing genius tech and games “journalists” completely misunderstood the slide and are incorrectly saying this is a “DX12 performance driver” when it’s just a usual driver release.
Unless, of course, they did it on purpose.
The major sites are all shills, after all.
I must admit, I’ve been fooled by those sites.
But what was I expecting? DX12 only brought a streak of disappointment.
Damn, props to Nvidia. I loaded these new drivers and played Ghost Recon Wildlands tonight, it’s night and day difference in performance. Very very smooth now.
10-15 extra frames per second on Very High/Ultra mix… now the game very rarely dips under 60FPS. Impressive drivers…
Download this and get the slow ring insider download for the creators edition of windows 10 if you have pascal! I am looking at 10-20 fps increases at 4k resolution in ALOT of games! The new GAME MODE is now STABLE and Glitchless with these drivers for me! The previous 378.77 drivers + Game mode had quite a few hitches with stuttering and frame drops, but with these new drivers, HOLY MOLY! I.E., Forza Horizon 3 every setting MAXED 71-57 fps!!! This means, the “Ultra Setting” (which only gave us 4xMSAA and FXAA turned on) runs with highs reaching NEAR 90 fps! So I went to the advanced settings and turned MSAA to 8X (the max setting available) and turned on Vsync for an amazing almost constant and steady 60fps! I did see drops to 57, but this is amazing as far as new performance to enable taxing features for the same card, with (dare I say “finewine”) type driver fidelity! I am impressed, as anyone who has had an nvidia card lately, knows all we have been getting is crazy ups and downs with driver performance, and constantly updating the drivers with “hotfixes”, as of late. Good luck! create a system restore point, give it a try! you can always rollback the update and driver so it’s worth the risk! I am happy with results. (Game mode MUST be enabled in each game by pressing win + G then enabled in settings icon) Also BF1 runs over 60 fps in almost every scene! Anyone looking for a little boost in performance needs to try this. I dont play ANY game at less than 4k except for Deus Ex! Amazing!
This driver actually makes the new GAME MODE in windows 10 creator update WORK! You will see the improvements and more so. I couldnt believe it until it happened either! No one is reporting on this, and the creators update is ready and waiting to slow ring subscribers now as well! It’s bug free for me once these drivers install! I am seeing SERIOUS FPS highs and avgs at 4K resolution!