NVIDIA has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 391.01 WHQL driver is optimized for Sea of Thieves. In addition, this driver fixes an issue that prevented the NVIDIA Freestyle being enabled for supported games and some display flickers continuously after disabling and enabling the GPU using Device Manager, or when rebooting the system in Volta GPUs.
Moreover, this driver resolves some flickering/corruption issues that occurred when opening the in-game options UI in Rise of the Tomb Raider, some system stutter issues when opening Media Player Classic, and some driver TDR errors when using the Firefox browser.
Those interested can download the NVIDIA GeForce 391.24 WHQL driver from here, and below you can find its complete changelog.
NVIDIA GeForce 391.24 WHQL Driver Release Notes
Game Ready
- Provides the optimal gaming experience for Sea of Thieves.
New Features
- NVIDIA Freestyle: Added new filters – Old Film and Tilt-Shift.
Software Module Versions
- nView – 148.92
- HD Audio Driver – 1.3.36.6
- NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.17.0524
- GeForce Experience – 3.13.1.30
- CUDA – 9.1
Fixed Issues
- [HTC Vive][Oculus Rift]: The VR headset stops working after several launches of the application or after resume from system Hibernate mode. [200395208/2048746]
- [NVIDIA Freestyle]: NVIDIA Freestyle not enabled for supported games. [2068793]
- [Media Player Classic Home Cinema]: When launching a video, the system stutters momentarily. [2070328]
- [G-SYNC]: Alt-tabbing windowed games with G-SYNC enabled and V-Sync ON ingame causes stuttering and drop in frame rate. [2053877]
- [Firefox]: Driver TDR error may occur when using Firefox. [2049523]
- [Notebook][Surface Laptop]:Blue-screen crash may occur when installing the driver.[200392051]
- [Volta GPU]: The display flickers continuously after disabling and enabling the GPU using Device Manager, or when rebooting the system [200391003]
- [GeForce GTX 1060][Rise of Tomb Raider]: Flickering/corruption occurs when opening the in-game options UI. [200351146]
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For what it’s worth, these are the “Known Issues”, if it still makes any big difference:
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[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].
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[Pascal GPUs][Gears of War 4]: Blue-screen crash may occur while playing the game.
Btw, how ironic is the above “Known issue”, which I’ve been noticing since long, but not yet fixed !
But I don’t have to worry, because I have an RX 480 GPU, and GOW4 runs like a charm, but a buddy of mine is suffering from random crashes on his GeForce GTX 1070 card.
Not able to figure out the exact reason behind the random CTDs, hangs and crashes while plying GOW4.
Funny Pascal users would have issues. Yet I can play GOW4 in Single or SLI on my 970’s with zero issues.
Indeed….I’m not sure why only Pascal cards have this issue with GOW 4.
Makes little sense, unless the Pascal GPU architecture has some compatibility issue with the Game’s code, or engine ?
Pascal is pretty much a better Maxwell…
Having already looked through the PDF notes, I am disappointed in Nvidia for not bothering to further add on to FF XV’s previous driver update. AMD is at least working on their end to improve upon performance.