NVIDIA GeForce 418.81 WHQL is out with performance optimizations and RTX laptop support

Posted on Tuesday, February 05 2019 @ 12:45 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

There's also a new driver from NVIDIA, you can download the GeForce 418.81 WHQL release over here. This edition supports the new GeForce RTX laptops and has optimizations for the new 3DMark Port Royal benchmark with DLSS support.

Besides some new SLI profiles, the 418.81 WHQL release also promises performance improvements on multiple games, including The Witcher 3, when using G-SYNC and SLI on Pascal and Maxwell based GPUs.

There are also some bug fixes:

Gamestream][OS HDR]: Stream is not set to launch in HDR despite having HDR display attached to the PC and client. [2467526]
[GeForce Experience]: Share FPS overlay appears in the Twitter UWP app from the Microsoft Store. [2465033]
[G-SYNC]: Flickering may occurs in games if G-SYNC is enabled. [2399845]
[G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled, after hot-pugging a G-SYNC display and then a GSYNC Compatible display, the right half of the G-SYNC Compatible display may go blank. [200484819]

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