NVIDIA has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 384.94 WHQL driver offers optimal performance for Lawbreakers, ARK: Survival Evolved, Fortnite Early Access, Dark and Light, and Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. In addition, this new driver is optimized for the new “Ultra” settings of EVE: Valkyrie.
Furthermore, the NVIDIA GeForce 384.94 driver updates the SLI profiles for ARK: Survival Evolved, IL-2: Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad and Lawbreakers, fixes some crash issues in Watch_Dogs 2 on Titan X cards, some screen freeze issues in NieR: Automata on GeForce GTX 780/780 Ti cards, as well as some freeze issues in Gears of War 4.
Moreover, this new driver displayport no signal issues on GTX980 cards after turning the monitor off and then back on, some Windows HDR settings conflict issues in Shadow Warrior 2 with ingame HDR settings (resulting in color over-saturation) on GeForce TX 1070/1080 cards, and a bug that prevented Titan XP owners enabling HDR from the in-game HDR settings in Mass Effect: Andromeda after the game launched in full-screen mode.
Those interested can download this new driver from here.
And here are the full release notes for the NVIDIA GeForce 384.94 WHQL driver.
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
Fixed Issues
- [SLI][GeForce GTX 980][IL2-Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad]: There is no performance improvement under DirectX 11 after enabling SLI.
- [Star Ruler 2]: The game crashes within minutes of gameplay.
- [Titan Xp][Mass Effect – Andromeda]: After launching the game in full-screen mode, HDR cannot be enabled from the in-game HDR settings.
- [GeForce TX 1070/1080][Shadow Warrior 2]: Windows HDR settings conflict with ingame HDR settings, resulting in color over-saturation.
- [GeForce GTX 970][Gears of War 4]: The game may freeze with Release 384 drivers.
- [GeForce GTX 780/780 Ti][NieR:Automata]: The screen may freeze during gameplay.
- [Titan X][Watch Dogs 2]: The game may crash when launched.
- [GeForce GTX][DNF]: Poor game performance.
- [Windows Store – Channel 9 / rPlay]: In full-screen mode, the application playback becomes choppy and then the application crashes.
- [GeForce GTX 980][DisplayPort]: There is no signal on the monitor after turning the monitor off and then back on.
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Downloading it now. Here’s hoping it remedies the issues introduced by the last driver update although they’ve made no mention of it in the release notes.
Huang, he forsakes us all.
What is the issue?
Nvidia acknowledged that the previous driver was causing issues for Maxwell cards with video playback on YouTube. Yet these latest release notes here make no mention of it so I’m now wondering if they’re going to address it at all.
The issue occurs when viewing YouTube content full-screen for longer duration videos. Sometimes after several minutes the screen switches to a screen size black window. Touching the mouse or keyboard remedies it so it’s not a huge problem but nevertheless it shouldn’t be happening.
Oh, and the last driver introduced another issue on my PC and presumably others too. When shutting down the PC the graphics card’s fans suddenly ramp up – not to full speed but quite high nonetheless.
wtf. I swear. if there was another company other than amd and nvidia, they’d be making sales right now. One has next to no hardware and the other one has weaker and weaker drivers.
It’s over exagerated i know but still. Maybe a 3rd company would stir things up a notch.
Too right. Only a handful of driver updates ago Nvidia introduced a since fixed problem of causing people’s PCs to get stuck on a black screen when attempting to boot. There was me thinking WHQL actually meant something in terms of quality assurance but evidently not!
Yea, i think at this point they can’t test everything but i don’t have the feeling they’re actually testing a broad range of setup. They just expect it to work and since MS doesn’t really care, they just let them
Pass the whql. Same goes for amd, both conpanies aren’t perfect, it’s ok but as consumers, most of the time, we’re the ones getting the hit.. be it crashes, instability etc.
Oh thank god. My monitor was waking me up at random times at night; I thought it was the release of death coming for me, but nope, it’s just Nvidia.
Huang checking your outlook app. Rifling both your Onedrive and Google+ stuff.
All my Zatara pictures!!! Noooo!!!!
They’re coming for your wallet 🙁
Sorry for the off topic comment but does anyone have any idea why my borderless window acts like it’s full screen mode ? What I mean is normally you shouldn’t have screen tearing in borderless window but for some reason I do. Windowed mode works fine though.
Yeah they lead with Senua for the clicks
Optimized drivers for Unreal Engine 4 games, Nice!
in the past this is quite the norm. drivers are ready a few months before game launch. including multi GPU support. i still remember mass effect 3 official SLI profile was rolled out in january drivers when the actual game still not coming out in march. right now we are lucky just to have SLI or CF profile ready on game day one launch.