Driver Update: GeForce Game Ready Driver 382.05 WHQL

Nvidia has released new stable GeForce drivers. The drivers are version number 382.05 WHQL and are suitable for Windows 7 and higher, with separate downloads as usual for 32bit and 64bit environments. The drivers can be used on all GeForce 400 series and higher cards. The new drivers include optimizations for the games Prey and Battlezone, and the game Gears of War 4 can now take advantage of multiple video cards. The changelog also shows some bug fixes and various problems that are already known, but for which there is no solution yet. The complete release notes look like this:

Provides the optimal gaming experience for:

• prey
• battle zone
• Gears of War 4 Multi-GPU Update.

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

• Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

3D Vision Profiles Added or updated the following 3DV profiles:

• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III – Not Recommended

Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 382.05

• [SLI][No Man’s Sky – with The Foundation Update 1.10 patch]: With SLI enabled, there is texture corruption in the game. [200257478]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX 670][World of Tanks]: In SLI mode, blue-screen crash occurs when pressing Alt+Tab during the game. [1895732]]
• [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Gears of War]: After the bootup movies, blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys. [1914184]
• The NVIDIA Control Panel in the Windows desktop context menu, as well as the NVIDIA system tray icon, may be absent. [200298863/1906498]
• System may hang at a black screen upon cold boot up. [1913854]
• In a multi-display configuration, the extended displays are unable to enter sleep mode. [1902053]

Windows 10 Open Issues

• [DirectX 11 games]: On some titles, in-game V-Sync does not work if Fast Sync is selected from the NVIDIA Control Panel. Consequently, the game frame rate is not locked to the maximum refresh rate, resulting in possible tearing. [200304603]
• [SteamVR titles]: SteamVR may crash when launched. [1917936] To workaround, uninstall GeForce Experience or reinstall the NVIDIA driver.
• [Power DVD 17]: The display may go blank while playing HDR video in exclusive full-screen mode. [200300818]
• [GeForce GTX 1070]: Games (Witcher 3, For Honor) do not recognize the custom refresh rates set using the NVIDIA Control Panel. [1916598]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX 1080][Battlefield 1 XP1]: With SLI enabled, corruption appears in the game when switching between full-screen and windowed mode. [1889162]
• [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Mass Effect: Andromeda]: Random memory errors may occur when playing the game. [1887520]
• [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Sid Meirie’s Civilization VI][G-Sync/SLI/DirectX 12]: Black corruption appears while entering the in-game menu after skipping the cutscene. [200283322]
• [GeForce GTX Titan X][Ansel][Ghost Recon Wild lands]: With FXAA enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel, the application crashes when enabling the in-game Ansel UI. [200283194]
• [Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Tom Clancy’s The Division Survival DLC]: Game crashes, pointing to ntdll.dll when changed to full-screen and to windowed full-screen. [200252894]
• [Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][ShadowPlay][For Honor]: The game silently may crash if the intro video is skipped while instant replay is on. [200247313]
• [SLI][Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Gears of War 4]: Level loading may hang. [1826307]
• NVIDIA Control Panel custom color settings are reset to the default after switching a game between windowed and full-screen mode. [1917071]
• NVIDIA Control Panel custom color profiles and ICC profiles are lost when using the Microsoft Game Bar. [1904238
• Display monitor is unable to enter sleep mode. [19116554]
• [GeForce Experience]: Driver installation may fail when attempting to perform a driver overinstall. To workaround, perform a clean installation.
• [Notebook][Pascal GPU]: The display remains blank while over installing the driver, requiring a reboot. [200273603]
• Error code 43 appears in the Device Manager after installing the driver with HDMI display connected. [200283276]
• Driver install/overinstall requires a reboot. [1757931]

Windows 7 Open Issues

• [GeForce GTX 1080] Battlefield 1 hangs when campaign loaded with Fast Sync enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200254350]
• [GeForce GTX 1060]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to driver (Nvlddmkm.sys) after the system reboots from sleep mode. [1814559]