nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v411.63 WHQL Findings & Fixes

nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v411.63 WHQL Windows 10 - (64-bit)

nVIDIA GeForce Drivers v411.63 WHQL Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 (64-bit)

@Ultra Male Are yoo ready, bruh? You're all welcome to the new barbeque party. And the Nvidia driver packages continue blow up in size (File Size: 517.11 MB). But will it blow your graphics to the hardware graveyard/heaven? Please test it. The new Turing graphics cards is out. Let's see how much this driver will break for Pascal owners

• Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v411.63)

Game Ready

Software Module Versions
• nView - 149.34
• HD Audio Driver - 1.3.37.5
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.17.0907
• GeForce Experience - 3.15.0.164 • CUDA - 10.0

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Forza Horizon 4, and FIFA 19.

Gaming Technology

Includes support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards.

New Features

• Added support for CUDA 10.0
• NVIDIA RTX Technology
  NVIDIA RTX supports the Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API on NVIDIA Volta and Turing GPUs.
  
  In order to get started with developing DirectX Raytracing applications accelerated by RTX, you'll need the following:
  • NVIDIA Volta or Turing GPU
  • Windows 10 RS4
  • Microsoft's DXR developer package, consisting of DXR-enabled D3D runtimes, HLSL compiler, and headers

• Vulkan 1.1
  • This driver release provides full support for the new Vulkan 1.1 API and passes the Vulkan Conformance Test Suite (CTS) version 1.1.1.2.
  • Includes interoperability with CUDA 10.0.
  • New extensions for Turing GPUs:
    • VK_NVX_raytracing (also available for Pascal GPUs with 8GB or more video memory, and Volta GPUs)
    • VK_NV_compute_shader_derivatives
    • VK_NV_corner_sampled_image
    • VK_NV_fragment_shader_barycentric
    • VK_NV_mesh_shader
    • VK_NV_representative_fragment_test
    • VK_NV_scissor_exclusive
    • VK_NV_shader_image_footprint
    • VK_NV_shading_rate_image
  • See https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/ for the full specification.

• Vulkan HDR for Windows
  This driver release supports the Vulkan VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace and VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extensions allowing applications to output HDR content to HDR displays via the Vulkan APIs.
• OpenGL extensions for Turing GPUs
  • GL_NV_compute_shader_derivatives
  • GL_NV_fragment_shader_barycentric
  • GL_NV_mesh_shader
  • GL_NV_representative_fragment_test
  • GL_NV_scissor_exclusive
  • GL_NV_shading_rate_image
  • GL_NV_shader_texture_footprint
• See https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/index_gl.php for the full specification.

NVIDIA Control Panel

System Info shows Boost Clock values (instead of Base Clock) for Turing and later GPUs.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

• HOB
• Lake Ridden
• NieR:Automata
• Northgard
• Pure Farming 2018
• Raid: World War II
• Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017)
• TT Isle of Man

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

• Elder Scrolls: Online - Good
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - Not recommended

Discontinued Support

• 32-bit Operating Systems
  Beginning with Release 396, NVIDIA is no longer releasing Game Ready drivers for 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture.
• NVIDIA Fermi GPUs
  Beginning with Release 396, the NVIDIA Game Ready driver no longer supports NVIDIA GPUs based on the Fermi architecture.

Limitations in This Release

The following features are not currently supported or have limited support in this driver release:

• Turing GPU Driver Installation on Windows 10
  Drivers for Turing GPUs will not be installed on systems with Windows 10 RS2 or earlier. This includes Windows 10 Threshold 1, Threshold 2, Redstone 1, and Redstone 2 operating systems.

Fixed Issues in this Release

• Using power monitoring in GPU monitor tools causes micro stutter. [2110289/2049879]
• [Monster Hunter World]: Low frame rate in the game. [2335958]
• [Tom Clancy's The Division]: Graphics corruption occurs when using NVIDIA Gameworks settings. [2005096]
• [Call of duty WW II ][1x3 Surround]: The center Surround display renders black screen. [200370257]
• [Planetside 2][G-SYNC]: G-SYNC does not work with the game. [2221050]
• [ARCHICAD][OpenGL]: The OpenGL driver crashes the application. [2093819]
• [GeForce GTX 1080Ti]: Random DPC watchdog violation error when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538]
• [YouTube][Mosaic with Sync]: Secondary GPU doesn't render video content on full-screen YouTube video. [200402117]

As usual... New is always better



Official 411.63 Game Ready WHQL Display Driver Feedback Thread (Released 9/19/18)

Display Driver Uninstaller v18.0.0.0

 

guinea pig time!

 

Let the performance and stability damaging driver games begin!

 

Left for dead by the NVIDIOTS... again. I guess if Fermi is good enough, those customers don't deserve new drivers.

There's just no excuse for this bull crap. More collusion between the Santa Clara Mafia and the Redmond Nazis. Gotta love the strong-arm tactics... gangsta style product support.

 

yeah you see, and y'all blame me for being on the latest Windows 10 build which is the suckiest, it's because of crap like this

 

No blame. It's a matter of personal preference.

As far as OS build compatibility, I'm sure Brother @j95 can fix that with one of his awesome driver mods.

But, it really boils down to whether or not having new GeFarts drivers is important enough to compromise everything else by having the latest piece of crap OS. Unless there is a compelling game that requires the new driver to run, there is still no point in updating the GPU driver if everything is working correctly. It's a total waste of time and energy if you don't have a legitimate and compelling reason to do it. I'd venture a guess that 99% of the time, there is no reason for doing it other than end users having a goofy fetish and being OCD about having the latest drivers. It's pretty silly IMHO. The best way to have a stable system is the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. Coincidentally, it also requires the least amount of effort.

 

well, the latest games usually run like crap if they would even run to start with on older drivers.

I tried one of the older drivers one time from MSI and Doom wouldn't even launch d00d. Now these drivers say they support FIFA 2019 which I did pre-purchase, I'm 100% sure they wouldn't run on older drivers or if they did they would perform like garbage.

So I am forced to drink the Micro$h4ft c00l 4!D

These morons have really squeezed us into a corner.

Then comes the bloody OEMs who are shifting their apps to the Windows Garbage Store. Example: MSI stopped Nahimic Setup installer and now it's exclusively through the store. Don't want me to install it? then my taptop would sound like the sound is coming from a crappy phone.

 

1. Everything should be better with DirectX 12... Said Micro$h4ft

DirectX 11 mot DirectX 12 – Radeon RX Vega 64 och Geforce GTX 1080 Sweclockers.com | Use translator


The result that is being painted is very clear. Of six titles tested, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 performs better under DirectX 12 in five. For the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 it's all about - only one game shows better DX12 results, and in many cases DX11 is considerably faster.

There is more than the numbers show
So far, all right. DirectX 12 delivers better performance with AMD Radeon, and Nvidia is the worst - or? If so, it would be so simple.
Although hugely much better than before, DirectX 12 still means some uncertainty, regardless of graphics maker. There are some more graphics bugs, a little more crashes, a little more unexpected performance or strange menus. A little more opulent, simply.
The big sorcerer, both for AMD and Nvidia, is Total War: Warhammer II - more than the numbers show. The DirectX 12 feature is clearly labeled as beta, and luckily - game crashes, does not work as it should with some cards, provides bit-wise crazy performance apps and bitwise more than doubled charging times.

But, should I drive with DirectX 12 or not?
An attempt to rule the rule is that if an AMD Radeon is under the hood - test, by all means. You can very well earn a few frames per second, without actually losing so much - especially with a bit slower processor.
Those who, on the other hand, sit on a Nvidia Geforce can with good conscience leave the switch set to DirectX 11, in cases where the election is available. In almost every case, performance is equivalent or better, while we are facing a whole lot of small problems.
The above two summarizes pretty well the status of DirectX 11 and DirectX 12, early autumn in the year 2018. Challenges around the new interface are many, and sometimes the profits are unclear - especially for limited resource developers. It may take many years before we can add 11th to history.

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AMD Radeon R9 290X vs. Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 Ti - five years later Sweclockers.com

It has been spoken much that AMD ages significantly better over time, fine wine, and SweClocker tests show that in some contexts it actually fits - the R9 290X has been against the tooth of the day significantly better than the GTX 780 Ti. Equally big difference, however, was not in the previous article, the Radeon R9 Fury X against the Geforce GTX 980 Ti, although AMD managed to take some land against the rival even there.





As you can see... Nvidia doesn't give a ****y after they have released new models!! The same can be said about Micro$h4ft.

Msi just follow the Alienware's What is better than download AW's (useless) overclockings tool from Windows Store? Alienware followed MSI with Battery Turbo boost. As you see They are like brothers and sisters

 

So Mr Clifford and Mr. Azor are friends?

 

Perhaps cousins? At least they share the same stupid ideas.