Nvidia’s latest Driver Enables DXR on Non-RTX GPUs
Nvidia’s latest Driver Enables DXR on Non-RTX GPUs
With Geforce 425.31 there is some bad news for Nvidia users, with the company officially dropping support for Mobile Kepler graphics cards alongside Nvidia 3D Vision. Nvidia’s 418 series of drivers will be the last to support these features.
On the DXR front, users of Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 (6GB) or above Pascal graphics cards or Geforce GTX 1660 or higher Turing series graphics cards will now support DirectX Raytracing (DXR). Due to the lack of RT cores on these GPUs, ray tracing performance will be significantly lower than non-RTX series Geforce graphics cards. Â
Nvidia has stated that DXR was not worth enabling on older graphics hardware due to their general performance levels of due to VRAM limitations, as DXR ray tracing is both compute and VRAM intensive. Nvidia decided to draw the line at their 6GB GTX 1060 for this reason.Â
What’s New in Version 425.31 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-1.
Game Ready
Provides the optimal gaming experience for Anno 1800.
Gaming Technology
Includes support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR) on GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (and higher) and GeForce GTX 1660 (and higher) GPUs.
3D Vision Profiles
Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:
• Anno 1800 – Not recommended
Software Module Versions
• nView – 149.77
• HD Audio Driver – 1.3.38.13
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.19.0218
• GeForce Experience – 3.18.0.94
• CUDA – 10.1
• NVIDIA Control Panel – 8.1.951.0
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Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 425.31
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
–Â [SLI][Adobe]: With SLI enabled, artifacts may appear in Adobe applications. [2533911]
–Â [ARK Survival Evolved]: Fixed random crashes on GeForce RTX 20 series GPUs. [2453173]
– [Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands]: The game crashes when accessing the inventory menu. [2404783]
– [The Witcher 3]: Blue-screen crash occurs randomly with Bad Pool error during gameplay. [2449346]
– [The Evil Within 2]: Artifacts appear when Texture Filtering is set to High Quality in the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2526817]
– [Fabfilter plugins]: Applications crash when using the Fabfilter plugin. [2532725]
– [ASUS ROG Strix GL702VS notebooks]: Fixed corrupted graphics in games on ASUS ROG Strix GL702VS notebooks. [2535373]
– [Titan X][GTA V][Stereo]: With Stereo enabled, OUT of Memory message appears when launching the application. [200317778]
Product Compatibility
Nvidia RTX 20 series
Geforce RTX 2080 Ti, Geforce RTX 2080Â
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
425.31 WHQL Download Links
Windows 10 – 64 Bit
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