NVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 397.64 WHQL driver offers the optimal gaming experience for Destiny 2: Warmind, Conan Exiles, and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.
In addition, this driver adds/updates the SLI profiles for Kingdom Come: Deliverance and GRIP, and adds support for Microsoft Surface Books. This driver also fixes a bug that caused the God rays in GTAV become less intense after forcing MSAA using the NVIDIA Control Panel, the black screen issues in StarCraft 2 when exiting the game, some stutter Netflix playback issues, and the increase of the GDI objects every time an application queries NVAPI.
Those interested can download the NVIDIA GeForce 397.64 WHQL driver from here, and below you can find its complete changelog.
NVIDIA GeForce 397.64 WHQL Release Notes
Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience for Destiny 2: Warmind, Conan Exiles, and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.
New Features
- Added support for Microsoft Surface Books.
Application SLI Profiles
Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- GRIP
Fixed Issues
- [Grand Theft Auto V][NVIDIA Control Panel]: God rays become less intense after forcing MSAA using the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2098709]
- [Starcraft 2][Kepler GPUs]: Black screen appears when exiting the game. [2070566]
- [SLI][GeForce GTX 780 Ti]: There is no display output when connecting the DisplayPort and two DVI monitors. [1835763]
- [Netflix]: Netflix playback may stutter intermittently. [2094867]
- [GeForce GTX 1060]: Windows Device Manager may report Code 43 error. [2109135]
- Event Error 14 appears in the Windows Event Viewer when booting into Windows.[2109510]
- GDI objects increase every time an application queries NVAPI. [2109232]
- [Windows 10]: Driver may get removed after the PC has been left idle for an extended period of time. [2110591]
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[Windows 10]: Driver may get removed after the PC has been left idle for an extended period of time. [2110591]
How does something like this get WHQL certified?
That’s a FIXED issue, hence the WHQL certification.
It was a “Known” issue previously, and Nvidia also released a HOTFIX beta driver for the time being, but now this issue seems to be fixed, as per the latest driver notes.
NVIDIA GeForce 397.31 WHQL driver (the previous WHQL Driver, which is now removed from the Geforce website is the one that was having this issue) got certified. I was just wondering how?
I’m not sure where you got that info from.
I just checked the 397.31 driver release notes, and there was no such “Known Issue” which you are mentioning.
Your reply seems a bit confusing as well.
You just asked how the above issue got WHQL certified, and now you are trying to say the previous WHQL driver version also had this same issue ?
The previous WHQL driver had this issue which I can confirm from personal use. I had to revert back to previous driver and then later the hotfix driver that you are talking about. What I was wondering is how something as big as driver getting automatically removed not get noticed during the certification process. As far as I am concerned WHQL means nothing anymore. They are all Beta drivers of the next driver.
This question falls into same bag with:
– did earth was visited by other civilizations
– does loch ness monster exists
– is big foot real
Why M$ rolled back / postponed last big update (or actually why did they released buggy version in first place).
Why Intel patches to spectre increase latency on my side and initial ones were rolled back from Linux kernel?
I personally had issue with previous NVidia driver that I did tested (forgot number) that caused OS level hung (mouse didn’t responded) when in mpc-hc video was changed. It’s already fixed but I didn’t noticed anything like this in change log so I stopped bothering to read them for some time now.
That’s a FIXED issue, hence the WHQL certification.Previously it was a “Known” issue, and Nvidia also released a HOTFIX beta driver for the time being, but now this issue seems to be fixed, as per the latest driver notes.
lol. u sure like to copy other’s comments.
Hmm, after the recent shambles from Nvidia I’ll be waiting a few days to hear of any potential problems before updating this time. Particularly so when these drivers are being released at a time when Microsoft are rolling out a major Win 10 update.
I have the new Win update and this new driver both installed and so far “knock on wood” every is fine, will post if my PC melts or blows up đŸ™‚
LOL đŸ™‚
Note the penguin in the back, offering an alternative.
I nearly didn’t post it for that reason in case somebody had me down as a Linux zealot!
Don’t worry, only the Linux zealots like me would notice in the first place đŸ˜‰
hope this fix my 1060 freeze after April update
[Windows 10]: Driver may get removed after the PC has been left idle for an extended period of time. [2110591]