Driver Update: GeForce Game Ready Driver 456.55 WHQL

Nvidia has released new stable GeForce drivers. The drivers are version number 456.55 WHQL, are compatible with Windows 7 and above, and can be used on cards based on the Kepler architecture or newer. This release includes support for Star Wars: Squadrons and the use of nVidia Reflex in the Call of Duty games. In addition, stability improvements have been made for users with a video card from the RTX 30 family and several problems have of course been solved. The complete release notes are below:

Our latest GeForce Game Ready driver provides support for:

• nVidia Reflex in: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone
• Star Wars: Squadrons

The new Game Ready Driver also improves stability in certain games on RTX 30 Series GPUs.

Fixed Issues in this Release

• [Omniverse 2020.2.4496]: Corruption occurs after switching from RTX Real-Time to RTX Path- Traced renderer. [200649160]
• [Vulkan games]: The GeForce Experience> Performance > Render Latency setting sometimes sticks at 0 on Vulkan games. [3129618]
• Multiple G-SYNC Compatible monitors were removed from the G-SYNC Compatible list in the driver. [3130059]
• There is a slight increase in the Windows Event Log CPU utilization. [200659659]
• nVidia Container service may crash upon resume from system sleep /hibernate mode. [200658281]
• [Notebook]: Performance Power Mode cannot be set from the nVidia Control Panel. [200657525]

Windows 7 Open Issues

• [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the nVidia Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Open Issues

• [World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
• [Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
• [Call of Duty – Warzone]: Freestyle doesn’t work. (200593020)
• [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
• [Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328] To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
• [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884] You may encounter issues installing the nVidia Control Panel from the Windows Store. See “Issues Installing the nVidia Control Panel from the Windows Store” on page 21 for more information.
• [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
• [G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]
• [GeForce RTX 3080/3090]: Samsung G9 49” display goes black at 240 Hz. [3129363]
• [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the nVidia Control Panel. [200594188]
• [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]