Driver Update: GeForce Game Ready Driver 398.36 WHQL

Nvidia has released new stable GeForce drivers. The drivers are version number 398.36 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. This release includes optimizations for the game The Crew 2. The changelog also shows bug fixes and a handful of problems that are already known, but for which no solution has yet been found. The complete release notes are below:

Provides the optimal gaming experience for

• The Crew 2

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

• Dark Souls Remastered
• Hand of Fate 2
• Need for Speed ​​Payback
• Super Mega Baseball 2

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

• Output Zero – Good

Fixed Issues in this Release

• [Pascal GPUs][Gears of War 4][DirectX12]: Blue screen crash may occur while playing the game. [2008731]
• [Sterescopic 3D][NVIDIA Control Panel]: Switching the 3D display setting On and Off from the Windows display settings page has no effect on the NVIDIA Control Panel stereoscopic 3D settings page. [2045222]
• [G-SYNC]: G-SYNC may still be active after closing a game, causing the desktop to stutter. []
• [Surround]: Multiple games crash when launched in Surround mode. [2181329]
• [HDR]: With HDR turned on, non HDR full-screen video playback may cause corruption/flickering in the video. [200410646]
• [Notebook]: Blue-screen crash occurs with Driver_Power_State_Failure error upon bootup. [2168487]
• Black Screen appears when booting Windows after installing the 397.93 display driver. [200418217]

Windows 10 Open Issues

• [SLI][GeForce GTX 1080][G-SYNC][World of Warcraft: Legion][HDR]: Severe color corruption appears in the game after launching with the Windows HDR setting enabled. [200418344] This issue does not occur with the Windows HDR setting disabled.
• [Surround][G-SYNC]: In Surround mode, the G-SYNC link in the NVIDIA Control Panel is missing. [200425004]
• [Surround SLI][G-SYNC][Overwatch]: There is constant flickering in the game when played in a specific SLI Surround configuration (2 displays on master GPU and 1 display on slave GPU) with G-Sync mode enabled. [2130430]
• [G-SYNC]: Windowed G-Sync mode may stutter after upgrading to Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. [2097340]
• [Shadow Warrior 2][TITAN V]: After launching the game with Windows HDR setting enabled, there is flickering corruption when hovering the mouse over the game screen. [200408410] The issue does not occur with Windows HDR setting disabled.
• [GeForce TITAN (Kepler-based)]: The OS fails after installing the graphics card on a Threadripper-enabled motherboard. [1973303]
• [Netflix Edge Browser]: When playing a game in full-screen mode and playing a video from the Netflix Edge Browser, blue-screen crash occurs after multiple [Alt+Tab] switching between the two. [200415750] The issue does not occur when playing the Netflix video in a Chrome browser.
• [Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
• [NVIDIA Control Panel][Surround]: NVIDIA Surround hot keys don’t work. [200394749]
• Random DPC watchdog violation errors occur when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538]
• Using power monitoring in GPU monitor tools causes micro stutter. [2110289/2049879]