It has been some time since Nvidia released a graphics driver, but ending the long wait, the company today put forth the GeForce Game Ready 445.87 WHQL driver. This release delivers optimizations and support for the recently announced Minecraft with RTX Beta, the remasters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign and Saints Row: The Third, as well as SnowRunner.
The ray tracing-powered Minecraft beta kicks off tomorrow, April 16, while the Modern Warfare 2 Remastered Campaign and Saints Row: The Third remasters are coming to PC on April 30 and May 22, respectively. Lastly, SnowRunner is sliding in on April 28. Nvidia is recommending today"s 445.87 WHQL driver to those who will be picking up any of the aforementioned games for optimal performance.
As usual, there"s a list of fixes and known issues accompanying this driver. Here are the fixed issues:
- [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti][Rise Of The Tomb Raider - DirectX 12]: Blue-screen crash occurs after playing the game for 5-10 minutes. [2904755/2847526]
- [Doom Eternal]: There is black flickering in the game. [2904116]
- Some DirectX 11 games may fail to launch when Image Sharpening is enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel: [2901920]
- [Notebook]: Graphical corruption may occur after resume from display sleep. [2859247]
And here are the known issues to look out for:
Windows 7 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 Issues
- [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
- [Notebook][GeForce 1050 Ti MaxQ]: The screen displays corruption after waking from display off. [2859247]
- [SLI][Doom Eternal]: Corruption occurs in the game upon opening the Steam overlay. [200593967]
- (Battlefield 5, Destiny 2)[HDR]: With HDR enabled, the games appear too bright. [2909218]
- [Monster Hunter World Iceborne]: Artifacts appear in the game. [2903858]
- [Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
- [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
- [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are undetectable. [2810884]
- [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.
In addition, the G-Sync compatible display list has gone up by three monitors as well with Acer XB273GP, Acer XB323U, and ASUS VG27B being validated by Nvidia.
The 445.87 WHQL driver can be downloaded via the GeForce Experience app on Windows or through the direct links down below. The release notes can be found here.
Desktop GPUs:
Download: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 | Windows 10 – Standard / DCH
Notebook GPUs:
Download: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 | Windows 10 - Standard / DCH