Driver Update: GeForce Game Ready Driver 512.15 WHQL

Nvidia has released new stable GeForce drivers. The drivers are version number 512.15 WHQL, are compatible with Windows 10 and above, and can be used on cards based on the Maxwell architecture or newer. This release includes improvements for Ghostwire: Tokyo, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Chorus, Jurassic World Evolution 2 and No Man’s Sky. The changelog also shows a handful of bug fixes and a number of problems that are already known but for which there is no solution yet.

Game Ready

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Ghostwire: Tokyo, which features ray-traced reflections and shadows and utilizes NVIDIA DLSS for an up to an 2X performance boost. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands as well as the addition of NVIDIA DLAA to Chorus, Jurassic World Evolution 2, and No Man’s Sky.

Fixed Issues in this Release

• [Advanced Optimus]: Brightness levels do not change properly when display set to NVIDIA GPU only mode with HDR set to off. [3497181]
• Increased registry reads by DWM.exe when GPU is connected to G-SYNC/G-SYNC Compatible display [3535493]
• [NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][Ampere] Putting notebook to sleep by closing the lid and then waking up the notebook may cause Windows to reboot when in dGPU mode. [3444252]
• The native resolution for a DVI or HDMI display may not be available from the display settings if the display contains an invalid EDID. [3502752]
• [Adobe Substance Sampler/Stager]: Fixed Optimus profile to run on dGPU by default. [3557257]
• [Enscape]: Shadow rendering is incorrect. [3530584]
• [Solidworks Visualize Boost]: When the application process is running in the background, the GPU memory clock may operate at lower clock speeds. [3417407]
• [Adobe Premiere Pro]: Adobe Media Encoder could crash due to out of memory error when encoding multiple R3D 8k files. [3532477]
• [Foundry Nuke]: CUDA and OpenCL kernel return incorrect result. [3497442]

Windows 10/11 Open Issues

• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
• [NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: With the GPU connected to an HDMI 2.1 audio/video receiver, audio may drop out when playing back Dolby Atmos. [3345965]
• Club 3D CAC-1085 dongle limited to maximum resolution of 4K at 60Hz. [3542678]