Nvidia releases their Geforce 417.01 driver for Darksiders III

Nvidia’s Geforce 417.01 driver is now here, delivering users of Geforce hardware game-specific optimisations for Darksiders III, while addressing several bugs that were present in previous releases. 

With this release users of 4K displays should no longer have any issues accessing refresh rate of over 30Hz, Event ID 14 errors should no longer occur on Turing-based graphics cards and Ansel images should capture currectly when taking screenshots that are significantly higher than your dipslay’s naitive resolution.  
  

  

What’s New in Version 417.01 WHQL

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-one.

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for Darksiders III.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

• Artifact

Software Module Versions

• nView – 149.34
• HD Audio Driver – 1.3.38.4
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.18.0907
• GeForce Experience – 3.16.0.122
• CUDA – 10.0

Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 417.01

The following sections list the important changes and the most common issues resolved in this version. This list is only a subset of the total number of changes made in this driver version. The NVIDIA bug number is provided for reference.

Fixed Issues in this Release

– Monitor refresh rates higher than 30 Hz cannot be applied on 4k monitors. [2423614]
– Frame Rate Limiter 2 may not work. [2423316]
– [Turing GPUs]: Event ID 14 error may occur if CSM is disabled in the system BIOS. [2434721]
  [GeForce TX 650]: Shadowplay recordings are corrupted. [2416982]
– [G-Sync]: G-sync may not disengage after exiting games. [2418574]
–  [GeForce Experience][Ansel]: Ansel images appear incomplete when the resolution is set to 30x or greater. [2082395]

 

Open Issues in Version 417.01 WHQL

As with every released driver, version 417.01 WHQL of the Release 415 driver has open issues and enhancement requests associated with it. This section includes lists of issues that are either not fixed or not implemented in this version. Some problems listed may not have been thoroughly investigated and, in fact, may not be NVIDIA issues. Others may have workaround solutions.

For notebook computers, issues can be system-specific and may not be seen on your particular notebook.

Windows 10 Issues

– [GeForce GTX 1080Ti]: Random DPC watchdog violation error when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with PLX chips. [2079538]
– [Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
– Display corruption may occur on higher refresh rate DisplayPort monitors upon resume from sleep mode. [2438988]
– [G-Sync]: Random flickering occurs when connecting G-sync monitor + non-G-Sync HDMI monitor with G-Sync enabled. [2399845]

Product Compatibility

Nvidia RTX 20 series

Geforce RTX 2080 Ti, Geforce RTX 2080, Geforce RTX 2070

NVIDIA TITAN Series

NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce 10 Series

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030

GeForce 900 Series

GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 700 Series

GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710

GeForce 600 Series

GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 635, GeForce GT 630

416.16 WHQL Download Links

Windows 10 – 64 Bit
Windows 7 – 64-Bit

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