Driver Update: GeForce Game Ready Driver 460.89 WHQL

Nvidia has released new stable GeForce drivers. The drivers are version number 460.89 WHQL, are suitable for Windows 7 and above, and can be used on cards based on the Kepler architecture or newer. This release adds support for version 1.4 of the ray tracing version of Quake and the implementation of the Vulkan ray tracing extensions is now complete. In addition, some problems have of course also been solved. The complete release notes are below:

Game Ready for Quake II RTX with Vulkan Ray Tracing

Our latest Game Ready Driver provides support for the Quake II RTX v1.4.0 update which enables support for the new Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions. Now, any GPU with support for Vulkan Ray Tracing can experience Quake II RTX in all its path-traced glory.

New Features and Other Changes

• Supports finalized Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions
• Supports CUDA 11.2

Windows 10 Open Issues

• [Nicehash, other mining software]: Mining software does not recognize the NVIDIA GPU. [3200758]
• [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti]: The desktop screen may flicker. [3200599]
• [Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game. [3152190]
• [HDR]: With HDR enabled, black levels are incorrect. [200682795]
• [G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
• [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
• [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
• [G-Sync][Vulkan Apps]: Performance drop occurs when using G-SYNC and switching from full-screen mode to windowed mode using the in-game settings. [200681477] To workaround, either launch the game in windowed mode directly or disable G-SYNC.
• [GeForce RTX 3070][Clone Mode]: When the resolution is set to 2560×1440 @ 144Hz, the performance state is stuck at maximum performance. [200678414]
• [NVIDIA Turing or later][Windows Movies and TV Player]: When playing a 4k video in fullscreen mode on a 2560×1440 HDR monitor, the video extends beyond the edge of the screen. [3186830]