Posted on Wednesday, January 25 2017 @ 14:33 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
A new Game Ready driver was uploaded on the
NVIDIA website. The new 378.49 WHQL release offers support for Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, the Conan Exiles early access program, and the For Honor closed beta. Additionally, this release also added a bunch of SLI profiles and resolves a long list of bugs.
Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
Battlefield 1
Deus Ex: Breach Standalone - added DirectX 11 profile
Diablo III - added DirectX 11 profile
Dreadnought(2016) - added DirectX 11 profile
LEGO: Minifigures Online - added SLI-Single profile
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Shooter Game (HDR) - added DirectX 11 profile
Sniper Elite 4 - added DirectX 11 profile
Space Hulk: DeathWing - added SLI-Single profile
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Watch Dogs 2
Windows 10 Fixed Issues
[GeForce TITAN X][Just Cause 3] Random flashes occur in the game. [1846802]
[GeForce GTX 1080][Wargames: Red Dragon]: The system reboots after switching to full-screen mode while playing the game. [1838863]
[GeForce GTX1080]: Random TDR/black screens occur when running GPU-intensive
Direct X applications after updating to Windows 10 Anniversary Update. [1811614]
[GeForce GTX 1070][Alienware Graphics Amplifier] The graphics card is not detected
upon installing the driver. [200236450]
[GeForce GTX 1070][Battlefield 1] Rain puddles appear dark. [1853262]
[GeForce GTX 1060] A superfluous audio end point entry appears in the Windows Sound Devices panel after resuming from hibernate mode. [200253633]
Assassins Creed - Syndicate shows intermittent flickering black or white patches on game character faces. [200211264]
[SLI][Battlefield 1]: Texture flickering occurs in the game with SLI enabled. [200252872]
[Hitman pro][DirectX 12] Flickering corruption appears in the game if the multi-GPU
option is enabled from the in-game settings. [200252498]
[Folding @ Home] Work unit errors occur. [200262613/1831430]
[Diablo 3 DirectX 11] SLI profile needed. [1859126]
On a related note, NVIDIA also released new Vulkan beta drivers for Windows (376.71) and Linux (375.27.07), these can be found via
this page.
Beta support for the new Vulkan extensions:
VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2
VK_KHR_maintenance1
VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters
VK_EXT_shader_ballot
VK_EXT_shader_group_vote