Posted on Tuesday, February 14 2017 @ 15:31 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
A new NVIDIA driver hit the web today. The latest WHQL certified release has version number 378.66 and is the Game Ready driver for Sniper Elite 4, For Honor and Halo Wars 2. In the changelog, NVIDIA reveals it added Video SDK 8.0 support:
New Features
Video SDK 8.0
- High-bit-depth (10/12-bit) decoding (VP9/HEVC)
- OpenGL input surface support for encoder
- Weighted Prediction
- H.264 ME-only mode enhancements
NVIDIA also fixed a couple of issues:
[Surround]: Surround cannot be enabled on the XGPU. [200236703]
[G-Sync]: With G-Sync and V-Sync both enabled, there is a long
delay when switching a game from full-screen mode to windowed mode.[1867557]
[Second Life 64-bit]: World view is tinted blue after disabling Advanced Lighting
Model. [200274562]
[The Division]: Shadows flicker after enabling PCSS. [1867573]
[Kepler GPUs][Battlefield 1]: There is flickering in the game when using TAA. [1865681]
[SLI][Battlefield Day28 Patch]: The menu text becomes jittery with SLI is enabled.
[1837721]
[SLI][Surround][GeForce GTX 1080]: The system crashes when launching games in SLI Surround using HDMI 2.0 connections. [1834142]
[GeForce GTX 1080][Heroes of Storm]: The game crashes when launched. [200274793]
[GeForce 860M][Notebook]: DirectX games crash. [1868454]
[Minecraft]: Java SE Binary crashes pointing to nvinitx.dll. [200274582]
[GeForce GTX 980 Ti]: The driver is unable to detect multiple TV models. [1788948]
