NVIDIA GeForce 378.78 WHQL aka the DX12 performance driver arrives

Posted on Thursday, March 09 2017 @ 17:18 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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NVIDIA published the GeForce 378.78 WHQL driver, this release is the recommended driver for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands and adds support for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. This driver also includes big performance gains for DirectX 12 games, with frames per second increases of 4 to 33 percent, according to NVIDIA's own benchmarking. You can grab the drivers over here.
Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands

Gaming Technology
Includes DirectX 12 optimizations which provide additional performance increases for a variety of titles

Fixed issues:
  • [Discord]: The GFE FPS counter appears in the application. [200281089]
  • [GeForce 1050 Ti][Notebook]: Blue-screen crash occurs on some notebook platforms. [1877803]
  • [GeForce GTX 980 Ti][PhysX]: PhysX uses the CPU when Optimize for Compute Performance setting is OFF, resulting in a drop in performance. [1871405]
  • [GeForce GTX 980][CUDA]: Driver error occurs when trying to compute with GPUGrid CUDA application.[1869402]
  • [GeForce GTX 980 Ti][OpenCL]: Driver error occurs when trying to compute PrimeGrid enefer OpenCL tool. [1867576]
  • [NVENC][Steam]: NvFBC H.264 encode crashes. [1867544]


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