Nvidia’s latest driver enables Resizable BAR on RTX 30 series GPUs and optimisations for Kingdom Hearts and more

Nvidia has just launched their Geforce 465.89 graphics drivers for Windows PCs, adding additional optimisations to Nvidia’s Geforce driver stack for Outriders alongside support for Evil Genius 2, the Kingdom Hearts series and DIRT 5’s ray tracing update. 

With the launch of Nvidia’s 465.89 drivers, all Geforce RTX 30 series graphics card can now support Resizable BAR, though this hardware feature will require firmware updates for most RTX 30 series graphics cards to function. Resizable BAR support on Nvidia graphics cards will also need to be implemented on a game-by-game basis, with Nvidia supporting 17 games at the time of writing. 

Below are the release notes for Nvidia’s Geforce 465.89 WHQL driver.  

 

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 Outriders

This new Game Ready Driver provides support for the launch of Outriders, which features NVIDIA
DLSS technology. Additionally, this release also provides optimal day-1 support for:

– DIRT 5’s new ray-tracing update
– The launch of Evil Genius 2: World Domination
– The launch of the KINGDOM HEARTS Series on the Epic Games Store

Gaming Technology

– Includes support for Resizable BAR across the GeForce RTX 30 Series of Desktop and Notebook GPUs
– Includes beta support for virtualization on GeForce GPUs

Fixed Issues

– [Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan]: Smoke appears pixelated. [3266916]
– [Vulkan][X4: Foundations 4.00/X4: Cradle of Humanity] The game may crash on GeForce RTX 30 Series. [200701230]
– [GeForce RTX 3090]: Blue-screen crash occurs when Samsung Odyssey G9 is paired with HDMI TV. [3240366]
– [GeForce RTX 2060]: Blue-screen crash (DPC_WATCHDOGS_VIOLATION) occurs when playing a game and watching YouTube video simultaneously. [3196272]
– [Sunset Overdrive]: The application may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings [2750770]
– Realtek Displayport-to-HDMI 2.1 protocol converter clock limited to 600MHz pixel clock [3202060]
– [G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere/Turing GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566].
– [GFE Screenshot/HDR]: Application screenshots are washed out when HDR is enabled [3229781]

Known Issues

– [World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
– [Supreme Commander/Supreme Commander 2]: The games experience low FPS. [3231218/3230880]
– [Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
– [Adobe Camera RAW 12.x]: RAW files may show up black in Adobe Lightroom. [3266883]
– [Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
– [VR]: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 VR may stutter if Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is disabled. [3246674]
– [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
– [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

 

 

Product Compatibility (Desktop graphics cards)

Nvidia RTX 30 series

Geforce RTX 3090, Geforce RTX 3080, Geforce RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3060

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

465.89 WHQL Download Links

Windows 10 – 64 Bit

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