NVIDIA has just released the latest 365.19 Game Ready drivers which include a number of fixes and optimisations for a number of upcoming games including Doom (2016), Homefront: The Revolution and Master of Orion. Additionally, there’s an impressive array of new SLI profiles to ensure supported titles scale properly and offer good performance numbers. Here we can see the new SLI profiles taken directly from the official release notes:
• Battleborn – AFR SLI profile added
• Battlefleet Gothic Armada – SLI Single set
• Dead Island – redux version EXE added to original profile
• Dead Island: Riptide – redux version EXE added to original profile
• Master of Orion – AFR SLI profile added
• Obscuritas – AFR SLI profile added
• The Moonlight Blade – SLI Single set
• The Solus Project – SLI Single set
• World of Warships – SLI disabled pending fix of SLI-related issues by the game
developers
As expected, NVIDIA has fixed various bugs which are listed below for your information:
Windows 10 Fixed Issues:
Operating system crashes in 0x113_dxgkrnl!DpiFdoHandleSurpriseRemoval
during upgrade. [1529462] [SLI] Talos Principle crashes with SLI enabled. [1732418] [GM107] Playback pauses, flickers, and rolls back after hot attach and detach with
system DisplayPort. [1736912]
After Enable/Disable Surround and Bezel Peeking are enabled in Configure
Surround, PhysX > Span displays with Surround, Keyboard Shortcuts no longer
functions. [1738298] [SLI, 364.72] Tom Clancy’s The Division stutters after 20–30 minutes with SLI enabled.
[1750263] [Windows Media Player, OCX, ASF] Read access violation @
nvd3dum!CDX9VideoCallbacks::getSurface_NON_NEAR_NULL_nvd3dum!free
nvd3dum!_aligned_free nvd3dum!cresource::destroy n. [1754145] [VR, Oculus Rift] Blacks appear bright grey with the Rift set to TV Levels. [1754702] [Shadowplay] Second Life Viewer crashes on opening when Shadowplay is turned on.
[1756448] [364.72, 364.76] Glacier NVIDIA D3D test application Rthdribl.exe performance
significantly drops after update from 362.00. [1758879]
VulkanRT-Installer triggers virus scanner false positives. [1763395] [GeForce GT 720] NVIDIA Control Panel can’t change refresh rate in multi-display
configuration (onboard VGA + dGPU VGA or HDMI). [200147951]
Support Microsft Hybrid with Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake CPUs. [200190085]
Windows 8.1/Windows 8/Windows 7/Windows Vista:
Talos Principle Vulkan build: Performance optimizations. [1731228]
Unreal Engine 4 Vulkan crashes when multiple renderer threads are used. [1757734]
VulkanRT-Installer triggers virus scanner false positives. [1763395] [Windows 7 x64] 3DMark 11 Displays garbage. [200175473]
Phew, that was a long list of fixes, but it’s important information that will be useful to some users experiencing problems on the current driver version. Are you looking forward to Doom? The lack of press copies before release raises questions somewhat.
