Nvidia’s Latest Driver is Game Ready for Black Ops: Cold War, Godfall and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Nvidia's Latest Driver is Game Ready for Black Ops: Cold War, Godfall and Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Nvidia’s Latest Driver is Game Ready for Black Ops: Cold War, Godfall and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Nvidia has just launched their Geforce 457.30 WHQL driver for Windows 10, offering their users Game Ready performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War, Godfall and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

In addition to this, Nvidia’s latest driver also offers gamers optimisations for the RTX 30 series in Call of Duty: Warzone, where users previously saw performance drops on certain systems. 

In Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War, Nvidia users benefit from Nvidia Reflex, a latency reducing technology which will give Geforce users an edge on the Battlefield. Nvidia Reflex is also coming to Destiny 2, offering latency reductions as high as 49%.  

What’s New in Version 457.30 WHQL

GeForce Game Ready Driver

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases. 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 for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

This new Game Ready Driver provides support for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. In addition, this driver provides optimal day-1 support for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and Godfall.

Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 457.30

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

– [Warzone][RTX 30 series]: Users may see a drop in performance during gameplay.[3132127]
– [Notebook]: The internal panel flashes upon resume from sleep mode or from display off. [3150038]
– [NVIDIA Ampere architecture][G-SYNC][HDR][Dual-head 8k display]: Display screen goes black.[200667525]

Open Issues in Version 457.30 WHQL

As with every released driver, version 457.30 WHQL of the Release 455 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

– [Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game. [3152190]
– [G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
– [Freestyle/Ansel]: After launching and then closing Star Wars: Squadrons, Freestyle/Ansel stops working on supported games. [3154362]
To work around, reset the NVIDIA Control Panel global 3D settings. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings page, then select the Global Settings tab, click Restore and then click Yes at the confirmation dialog.
– [Freestyle][Vulkan apps]: With the freestyle filters applied, a blue-screen crash occurs when pressing [Alt+Tab] while running Vulkan applications. [200667477]
– [Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
– [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
– [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
– When setting the refresh rate higher than 100Hz, the color format switches from RGB to ycbcr422. [3053990]
– [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

Nvidia's Latest Driver is Game Ready for Black Ops: Cold War, Godfall and Assassin's Creed Valhalla  

Product Compatibility

Nvidia RTX 30 series

Geforce RTX 3090, Geforce RTX 3080, Geforce RTX 3070

Nvidia RTX 20 series

Geforce RTX 2080 Ti, Geforce RTX 2080 Super, Geforce RTX 2080, Geforce RTX 2070 Super, Geforce RTX 2070, Geforce RTX 2060 Super, Geforce RTX 2060

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 Titan RTX

GeForce 16 Series

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce GTX 1650

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


457.30 WHQL Download Links

Windows 10 – 64 Bit

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