Monday, September 28th 2020

NVIDIA Releases Game Ready 456.55 WHQL Driver With Improved Stability of RTX 3000 Series Cards, Support for Star Wars: Squadrons

NVIDIA has today released the latest iteration of its Game Ready driver with the version number 456.55. Marked as a WHQL release, the driver is supposedly going to bring new advancements to the stability of the latest GeForce RTX 3000 series Ampere graphics cards. While the release notes don't officially mention anything on how it improves, it is already confirmed by a few Redditors that the new driver removes crashed experienced with the past version 456.38. In the latest revision, the support has been added for NVIDIA Reflex in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, as well as support for Star Wars: Squadrons game. Below is the link to the driver download page redirecting to NVIDIA's site, and in no time the TechPowerUp download page will be updated as well.
DOWNLOAD:NVIDIA GeForce 456.55 WHQL Game Ready Drivers

The change-log follows:

Game Ready Driver Fixes
  • [Omniverse 2020.2.4496]: Corruption occurs after switching from RTX Real-Time to RTX PathTraced renderer. [200649160]
  • [Vulkan games]: The GeForce Experience> Performance > Render Latency setting sometimes sticks at 0 on Vulkan games. [3129618]
  • Multiple G-SYNC Compatible monitors were removed from the G-SYNC Compatible list in the driver. [3130059]
  • There is a slight increase in the Windows Event Log CPU utilization. [200659659]
  • NVIDIA Container service may crash upon resume from system sleep /hibernate mode. [200658281]
  • [Notebook]: Performance Power Mode cannot be set from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200657525]
Game Ready Driver Important Open Issues
  • Windows 7 Only [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
  • Windows 10 Only [World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
  • Windows 10 Only [Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
  • Windows 10 Only [Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
  • Windows 10 Only [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
  • Windows 10 Only [Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328] To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
  • Windows 10 Only [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884] You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See "Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store" on page 21 for more information.
  • Windows 10 Only [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
  • Windows 10 Only [G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]
  • Windows 10 Only [GeForce RTX 3080/3090]: Samsung G9 49" display goes black at 240 Hz. [3129363]
  • Windows 10 Only [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
  • Windows 10 Only [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
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36 Comments on NVIDIA Releases Game Ready 456.55 WHQL Driver With Improved Stability of RTX 3000 Series Cards, Support for Star Wars: Squadrons

#26
kiriakost
John Naylora) Who came to their house and twisted their arm to pay a ridiculous price to be the 1st one on the block to have the new thing ?
b) How many issue free new generation releases have their been in recent years ? AMD has stability issues, black screen issues, inadequate power connectivity on the 480 ... some vendors have had a harder time than others ... EVGAs 9xx fail where heart sink missed GPU ... their 10xx fail where the left out the thermal pads ... their use of non overclokcing (non A) series GPUs in 2xxx.

This has less to do with price gouging and everything to do with turning a blind eye to reality. Their expectation should be that if they want to escape buyer's remorse, wait for prices to stabilize and wait for early release problems to be corrected.
There is nothing that I would disagree with this set of thoughts.
But as freelancer when I delivered my services to rich people I did sense that they are acting as very hard to be pleased.
I hope their kids to be more sensible and not that spoiled regarding reactions.
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#27
medi01
So a bugfix to wrong capacitors.
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#28
Cheeseball
Not a Potato
CrAsHnBuRnXpWhy?
No they re-added them back. The last two driver releases removed a couple of monitors (like mine).
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#29
xSneak
Nice to know all the 500 people out there with 3000 series rtx cards are getting driver support.
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#30
Caring1
Of all the fixes, they made sure Nvidia Container Services is always up and running. :rolleyes:
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#31
B-Real
MxPhenom 216Check Reddit. Some are reporting better performance in some titles while also reporting slightly lower average clocks.
Reddit. LOL. This start is a shame for a company as huge as NV.
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#32
Globespy
nguyendang, so no one in this forum actually have a 3080/3090 on hand that can test the new driver ?
Yeah Ampere stocks is definitely on the low side :D
I got 3080 (Ventus OC edition) but seem to have been lucky with the silicon lottery and sits between 2010-2040Mhz on the original driver.
No need to update until there's actual performance increases, which I expect will come given how new Ampere is.
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#33
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
CrAsHnBuRnXpWhy?
cause they used an older codebase for the 30 series launch driver by accident, thats a FIXED issue so they corrected the screwup
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#34
toilet pepper
xSneakNice to know all the 500 people out there with 3000 series rtx cards are getting driver support.
And 200 influencers.
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#35
wolf
Performance Enthusiast
nguyendang, so no one in this forum actually have a 3080/3090 on hand that can test the new driver ?
Yeah Ampere stocks is definitely on the low side :D
I got my Asus TUF on Launch day+1, 0 issues with it whatsoever, perhaps because it's not an OC model yet it does touch over 2000mhz core clocks when stock, and perhaps because the card design and layout is phenomenal.
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#36
trparky
CheeseballNo they re-added them back. The last two driver releases removed a couple of monitors (like mine).
I wonder why they removed them. I have a G-Sync Compatible monitor too.

According to NVCleanstall, there is no driver update.
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