Nvidia 430.86 WHQL driver optimizes for Quake RTX; Game Ready and Studio both available

As it makes its presence known at Computex 2019 in Taipei, back home, Nvidia today released its WHQL-certified 430.86 drivers for both the Game Ready and Studio branches. It's worth noting, however, that for this particular release the two branches are identical.

Gamers can expect optimal experience for Assetto Corsa Competizione, which is scheduled to be out of Early Access on May 29. Along with that, there's Quake RTX which the company will be releasing, for free, on June 6. If you own Quake II, you will also be able to play multiplayer with the RTX version.

Creators, on the other hand, get optimal experience for "the latest releases of top creative apps," such as Autodesk Maya 2019, 3ds Max 2020, Arnold 5.3.1.0, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve
16, and Daz 3D Daz Studio.

Also included in this release is G-Sync Compatible support for a number of monitors, and support for the newly-released Oculus Rift S and HTC Vive Pro Eye VR headsets. Here are the monitors that gain the G-Sync Compatible tag with this release, for the two branches, with complete list available here:

Here's everything that's fixed with this release, for the two branches:

Game Ready

• GeForce Experience Freestyle no longer detects World of Warships as a supported game. [2587083]
• [Adobe Premier Pro]: The application may crash or experience TDR events on some systems. [2557111]
• [GeForced RTX 2080][Notebook][Resolume Arena 6]: Slow performance in the game when using dual 4k output. [2548168]

Studio

• [Quadro RTX 5000][Photoshop v20.0.4]; The application may crash occur. [2550087]
• [Titan RTX][Maya 2018]: The application crashes when rendering with REDSHIFT render window. [200510997]
• [OptiX][Arnold]: Errors occur with large shader disk cache. [2551569]
• [OptiX 6][Arnold]: Switching from 1x GPU to 2x GPUs (of the same GPU model) triggers a recompile of every program. [2549069]
• [OptiX][Arnold]: The startup time on the GTC robot scene takes significantly longer with PTX encryption than without the encryption. [2543391]
• [OptiX][Arnold]: The application may crash. [2481203]
• [OptiX][Arnold]: Startup time with cold shader cache is over one minute. [2399934]
• [Resolve Studio]: UHD performance has dropped. [2532482]
• [Cinema 4D]: Modulo operation produces incorrect result. [2494615]
• [Premiere Pro]: OpenGL driver exception occurs when launching the application. [2494092]
• [OpenGL][Modo v12]: Slow frame rendering when using “0x205f7e3b" profile. [2187572]
• [NVEnc][Resolve Studio]: Errors occur when encoding H.265 content. [2479871]
• [Vulkan driver][Octane Renderer]: Vulkan reports the wrong number of physical devices. [2417633]
• [OpenGL][Vulkan][Substance Painter & Designer]: Inter-operability memory sharing is not working correctly. [2309718]
• GeForce Experience Freestyle no longer detects World of Warships as a supported game. [2587083]
• [Adobe Premier Pro]: The application may crash or experience TDR events on some systems. [2557111]
• [GeForced RTX 2080][Notebook][Resolume Arena 6]: Slow performance in the game when using dual 4k output. [2548168]

Here's a combined list of known issues:

Windows 10 Issues

• [NVIDIA Control Panel]: When the 3D Settings page->Vertical Sync setting is set to Adaptive Sync (half refresh rate), V-Sync works only at the native refresh rate after rebooting the system. [2543187]
• [Grand Theft Auto V]: Brief flickering/corruption occurs in the game when MSAA is used. [2583604]
• [Forza Horizon 4]: The game may crash when driving through tunnels. [200515120]
• [Tom Clancy's The Division II]: The game may crash when played in DirectX 12 mode. [2587043/200406322]

Additional Issues

• 2599980 - Mortal Kombat 11 displaying random white flicker
• 2606672 - Code 43 error when installing driver 430.64 on Windows 10 19H1 system with Intel Sandy Bridge GPU

As mentioned earlier, the Game Ready and Studio branches are identical this time around, meaning that you will be downloading the same drivers no matter which branch you choose. The 430.86 WHQL-certified drivers can be downloaded via the GeForce Experience app on Windows or via the links down below. The complete release notes for Game Ready branch are available here, and for the Studio branch here.

Desktop GPUs:
Game Ready: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 | Windows 10 – Standard / DCH
Studio: Windows 10 – Standard / DCH

Notebook GPUs:
Game Ready: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 | Windows 10 - Standard / DCH
Studio: Windows 10 – Standard / DCH