NVIDIA GeForce 419.17 WHQL arrives for GTX 1660 Ti

NVIDIA uploaded the GeForce 419.17 WHQL driver, you can grab this release over here. This release adds support for the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti video card and has optimizations for Anthem and DiRT Rally 2.0. There are some new features, some bug fixes, and also an update for a side channel security vulnerability exposed by the GPU performance counters.

New Features:

NVIDIA Control Panel: Updated to version 8.1.950. Added new Developer->Manage GPU Performance Counters controls.

Video Codec SDK 9.0 (Released Feb 11, 2019)
Included Features
- Supports NVENC/NVDEC on NVIDIA Turing GPUs
- NVENC API has been updated to support HEVC B-frames on Turing GPUs.
- NVENC API adds the capability to output the encoded bitstream, and motion vectors from Motion-Estimation-only mode to video memory. This avoids the overhead of copying the output from system to video memory for processing pipelines operating directly on video memory.
- NVENC API now accepts CUArray as an input buffer. The SDK contains a sample application to demonstrate how to feed Vulkan surface to NVENC using VulkanCUDA interop.
More information: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk

Optical Flow SDK 1.0 (Released Feb 11, 2019) This is a new API for Optical Flow and stereo disparity hardware engine, available on Turing GPUs.
More information: https://developer.nvidia.com/opticalflow-sdk

Fixed:

[Doom Eternal / Doom 2016]: Decals render as black. [2515006]

[Battlefield V]: Screen artifacts appear in the game when Texture Filtering is set to High Quality in the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2470649]

Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) is not available for monitors with 4k2k timings. [2496987]

[Iray][OptiX]: Iray GPU acceleration crashes and falls back to CPU acceleration. [2503738]

Windows 7x64/8.1x64: Fixes random application crash or TDR introduced in previous GeForce display driver 418.81. [2504448]