Driver Update: GeForce Game Ready Driver 442.19 WHQL

Nvidia has released new stable GeForce drivers. The drivers are version number 442.19 WHQL, are suitable for Windows 7 and above, and can be used on cards based on the Kepler architecture or newer. This release includes improvements for the games Zombie Army: Dead War 4, Apex Legends Season 4 and Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story, as well as several bug fixes. The complete release notes are below:

Game Ready for Zombie Army: Dead War 4
The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Zombie Army: Dead War 4. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Apex Legends Season 4 and Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story.

Maximum Frame Rate
In the last Game Ready Driver, we introduced a new Maximum Framerate Setting into the NVIDIA Control Panel which allowed gamers to set the max framerate a 3D application or game can render. With the latest Game Ready Driver, we’ve incorporated community feedback asking for the limits to be extended. As a result, framerate limits can be as low as 20fps and can be raised as high as 1000fps.

New Features and Other Changes

• NVIDIA Control Panel>3D Settings>Maximum Frame Rate control Extended the slider values ​​to minimum=20, maximum=1000.
• Added Virtual Reality – Variable Rate Super Sampling (VRSS) setting to the NVIDIA Control Panel ->Manage 3D Settings page.
  VRSS improves image quality by applying super sampling selectively on the central region of a frame. See this Game Ready Driver article for the latest list of profiled VR apps.

Fixed Issues in this Release

• [The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine]: The game may crash when a user reaches a specific cut scene. [2726931]
• [Maxwell GPUs][OpenCL]: SETI@Home shows driver TDR occuring on Maxwell GPUs using OpenCL. [2739609]
• [Call of Duty Modern Warfare]: Streaming of gameplay using OBS will randomly stop. [2743477]
• [Battleye][Low-Latency Mode]: Launching Battleye with NVIDIA Low Latency Mode set to Ultra may cause DWM to reset. [2775906]
• [SLI+G-SYNC Stutter]: User may experience minor stuttering when using NVIDIA SLI in combination with G-SYNC. [2778783]
• [Doom (2016)]: The game crashes when launched on GeForce 600/700 series (Kepler) GPUs [2791124]
• [NVENC]: Memory leak occurs. [2805384]
• [Multiple Apps][SLI][G-SYNC]: Stuttering and drop in frame rate occurs during gameplay with SLI and G-SYNC enabled [200566678]

Windows 7 Open Issues

• [World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth][DirectX 12]: The game crashes when switched from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12 mode. [200574934]

Windows 10 Open Issues

• [Mortal Kombat]: The game may randomly crash to the desktop without error [2813996]
• [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
• [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Vulkan][HDR]:Corrupted flickering occurs when in-game HDR is enabled. [200585136]. To work around, either disable HDR or use DirectX 12 mode.
• [Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641]. To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.