The previous mid-month graphics driver update from Nvidia brought in a huge number of new features and changes coinciding with its RTX 3080 launch. Today, the company delivered another update, WHQL-certified 456.55 Game Ready driver, though it"s quite light on the features compared to last time.
EA"s upcoming space combat title Star Wars: Squadrons receives Game Ready status with this driver, though it"s unclear what exactly are the improvements players can expect. The game is slated to launch later this week on October 2, arriving with both HOTAS and VR support.
Moreover, the newly made available Nvidia Reflex technology that promises reduced system latency in competitive titles is now available for Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. As seen on the Nvidia-provided chart below, with Reflex on, owners of last-generation Nvidia graphics cards will benefit the most from the technology.
Here are the included fixes in this release:
- [Omniverse 2020.2.4496]: Corruption occurs after switching from RTX Real-Time to RTX PathTraced 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]
Next up are the known issues to keep an eye 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
- [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 does not 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]
- Note: You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store.
- [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]
The 456.55 WHQL Game Ready driver can be downloaded through the GeForce Experience app on Windows or via the links down below. The complete release notes can be seen 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