NVIDIA has released a new driver for its graphics cards that provides the optimal gaming experience with support for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update including the public release of DirectX Raytracing (DXR).
Moreover, the NVIDIA GeForce 416.16 WHQL driver adds SLI profiles for Basingstoke, Divinity: Original Sin II, Immortal: Unchained, Jurassic World Evolution, Phoenix Point and Seven: The Days Long Gone, and re-enables the AFR profile for Battlefield 5.
Surprisingly enough, this driver also fixes an issue with a mod for the first Quake. According to the release notes, this new driver fixes the black square glitches that appeared when using the Quake HD Remix mod with soft shadows enabled on Pascal GPUs.
Those interested can download this new WHQL driver from here, and you can find its complete changelog below. Kudos to our reader Metal Messiah for bringing this to our attention.
NVIDIA GeForce 416.16 WHQL Release Notes
Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience with support for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update including the public release of DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Software Module Versions
- nView – 149.34
- HD Audio Driver – 1.3.37.5
- NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.18.0907
- GeForce Experience – 3.15.0.164
- CUDA – 10.0
New Features
- Added support for Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Redstone 5)
- NVIDIA Control Panel (3D Settings)
Added clarification that the Triple Buffering setting is intended for OpenGL only.Application SLI Profiles
Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
- Basingstoke – AFR profile added;
- Battlefield V – AFR re-enabled;
- Divinity: Original Sin II – AFR profile added;
- Immortal: Unchained – AFR profile added;
- Jurassic World Evolution – AFR profile added;
- Phoenix Point – AFR profile added;
- Seven: The Days Long Gone – AFR profile added;
3D Vision Profiles
Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:
- Elder Scrolls: Online – Good
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey – Not recommended
Fixed Issues
- [Pascal GPUs][Quake HD Remix]: Black square glitches appear when using the Quake HD Remix mod with soft shadows enabled. [2277990]
- [GeForce GTX 1060][Regime][Rainbow 6: Siege]: Temporal antialiasing causes a drop in performance. [2139724]
- [Titan Xp]: Driver error (nvlddmkm ) occurs on resume from S4. [200435536]
- [Turing GPU][[Netflix]: Playback resolution doesn’t show 4K bit rates when using a USB-C-HDMI connection. [200449656]
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Known Issues (but mostly Windows 10 based):
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1. [Windows Defender Application Guard][vGPU][Surround]: Surround cannot be enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel when running Edge Browser with Application Guard over
vGPU. [200444614].
2. [Windows Defender Application Guard][vGPU][Surround]: Edge Browser with Application Guard cannot be opened when Surround is enabled. [200443580].
3. [GeForce GTX 1060]AV receiver switches to 2-channel stereo mode after 5 seconds of audio idle. [2204857].
4. [GeForce GTX 1080Ti]: Random DPC watchdog violation error when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538].
5. [Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201].
6. [Windows Media Player][Notebook][MSHybrid]: The application crashes when run on
the integrated graphics after setting the NVIDIA GPU Graphics settings to High Performance. [200450782].
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All I know is DXR works on my 970 😀 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/75cb5a3c161ca49da8e47e8377f8d30d993627cddd04174303afec9b3fd534e9.png
Interesting to know that.
Let me try a demo on my GTX 970 Asus STRIX card as well, which I have installed on my secondary side rig.
people are going to be amazed once they test out DXR. They will even see how close Maxwell is to Pascal. However RTX 2080 is around 3X better in performance over a 1080 Ti.
Hi. Is this demo part of Windows 10 October Update? Or it has to be downloaded from somewhere? Where can I find it?
Do a search for “Microsoft DXR Demos compiled for Windows 10 October Update” the link I replied back to you is on hold for approval.
Ok. I will find it. Thanks. I am interested in how it will works on GTX 1080.
hi john can you do some benchmark test for nvidia drive 400+ vs 399 on gtx 1080ti cause i watched a video on youtube and does not look good for gtx 1000 series owner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrd3cQi9mqI&t=278s
Wtf.
We don’t have a 1080Ti. From what we’ve seen in our GTX980Ti though, there aren’t big differences between the latest drivers.
sry i forgot 😀
John isn’t having any 10 series GPU. They have a GTX 980 Ti right now, on their test rig.
Btw, it’s a bit too early to jump on any conclusion as to whether Nvidia is indeed gimping 10 series GPU performance though, IMO.
Edit: It seems john just replied to you as well. Didn’t see his post before.
this guy is south african, i know him, he’s reliable.
Ok good, it’s those northerners that aren’t trust worthy.
yes, north africa browns and blacks live, they don’t have proper brain capacity to be reliable.
I’m a Hemisphericalist, the only n-word in my books is North!
also i have a gtx 1080, is there any specific game you want to compare?
gta 5 would be great if you have it
it’s not currently installed, last time i checked i got around 80 to 90 average with 4times msaa on 1080p. there’s a youtube channel called tech of tomorrow, he recently tested your theory and it does look like nvidia nerfed 1000 series in his tested bencharmks ( a little bit) but he denies it.
That’s just clickbait. There was a problem connected just with GTX 1080Ti (not othre Pascal GPUs) in the first 4xx driver, which caused around 3 FPS drops in some cases (not everywhere). This was already repaired in next driver according to reports.
“Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey – Not recommended”
True that.
It took them how many years to mention that the Triple Buffering is for Opengl?
Are you trolling… They just changed the wording… 😀
I didn’t knew it’s for Opengl only
Hmmmm me either. That can’t be correct.
Thanks for the video. Kind of busy right now, but I will watch it soon…….