Wednesday, June 24th 2020

NVIDIA Releases GeForce Game Ready 451.48 WHQL Drivers

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NVIDIA today released the latest version of its GeForce "Game Ready" software. Version 451.48 WHQL drivers are NVIDIA's first official/public GeForce software release with Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) support, complete with WDDM 2.7 support, and DirectX 12 Ultimate API support, including Windows 10 hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling support. The drivers also add official support for the Vulkan 1.2 graphics API. NVIDIA also expanded the list of G-SYNC compatible monitors to include several new monitor models. Grab the drivers from the link below.
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 451.48 WHQL Drivers

Game Ready for DirectX 12 Ultimate
The new Game Ready Driver provides full support for the new DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. This includes support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR) version 1.1 as well as support for mesh
shaders, sampler feedback, and variable-rate shading (VRS).

Additionally, this driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.
New Features and Other Changes
  • Supports DirectX 12 Ultimate
  • Supports Vulkan 1.2
  • Supports hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling.
  • Supports CUDA 11.0.
Application Profiles
Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
  • DCL - The Game (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
  • Jiu Xiao
  • Monster Energy Supercross 2 - The Official Videogame (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
  • MORDHAU (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later
  • Overpass (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
  • Planetside 2 (DirectX 11)
  • Sniper Elite V2 Remastered
  • Spyro Reignited Trilogy (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
  • Surviving The Aftermath
  • System Shock (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later)
  • The Fisherman - Fishing Planet (NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later
  • Warhammer Underworlds: Online
  • Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
Fixed Issues in this Release
  • [Just Cause 2]: The game does not detect CUDA files which results in missing "GPU Water Simulation" and "Bokeh Filter" settings. [2994570]
  • [Sea of Thieves]: Issues with game rendering occur. [200614095]
  • [Resident Evil 2 Remake]: The game may display random object and menu flickering. [2997880]
  • [Devil May Cry 5]: The game may display random object flickering. [2997814]
  • [Divinity Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition]: The game experiences low performance when hardware accelerated GPU scheduling is enabled. [3009631]
  • [Notebook]: Windows Mixed Reality headsets may display jitter when connected to the HDMI port linked to the NVIDIA Optimus notebook integrated graphics. [2971312]
  • [G-SYNC]: G-SYNC does not work with DirectX 9 games if "Disable full screen optimizations" is selected. [2969897]
  • Display brightness increases while enabling GPU scaling. [200612966]
  • NVIDIA HD Audio may disappear after display goes to sleep. [2807732]
  • The cursor turns into a grey rectangle when playing YouTube 4K HDR videos. [3009602]
Windows 7 Issues
  • [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 Issues
  • [Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
  • [VR]: HDCP errors occur with Valve Index VR. [2967616]
  • [Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: Color banding can occur in the game after enabling Image Sharpening from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [2889337/3028436]
  • [Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
  • [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
  • [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable.[2810884]
  • [Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641]
  • To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.
  • [SLI][G-SYNC]: With multi-GPU and G-SYNC enabled, TDRs occur soon after launching an application. [200628981]
  • [Notebook][The Witcher 3 WILD HUNT]: The game remains minimized when DDS switch is set to Optimus and Automatic, and cannot be restored to full screen. [200628973]
  • [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
  • [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
  • [Notebook][G-SYNC]: Graphical corruption occurs when windowed G-SYNC+V-Sync is On while running applications in Clone/Duplicate mode. [200628911]
  • [Notebook]: LVDS-display goes blank upon rebooting the system after driver installation on some systems. [200627952]

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54 Comments on NVIDIA Releases GeForce Game Ready 451.48 WHQL Drivers

#26
TheoneandonlyMrK
c2DDragonActually you can avoid the DCH version by going in "Beta and Older Drivers" in the Advanced Driver Search www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us, then you select the Standard version so you don't have to download the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Microsoft Store and you have the default one from the driver. You download the last one then at the setup you pick the one without GeForce Experience :

Choose custom if you want to remove PhysX & HD Audio for whatever reason, you can see GeForce Experience is not picked by default.

Install your drivers, profits.

If you want to remove the telemetry there is a program called "Autoruns" that let you remove or prevent dlls at start : docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
You can see I want to use GeForce Experience, I removed some telemetry but not everything, for example if NvBatteryBoostCheck is not set to start, GeForce Experience doesn't work. At least it didn't work when I did prevent it to start in the past.
That Tip is wasted on this thread its that good, it'll get buried, That's so useful and helpful it should have its own thread and be stickied.
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#27
Metroid
funny they say vulkan ready but when i tried vulkan using this driver it says, vulkan extension not found, this is opengl driver, only way to use vulkan is installing the latest nvidia vulkan beta driver 443.41. What the hell.

developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
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#28
c2DDragon
theoneandonlymrkThat Tip is wasted on this thread its that good, it'll get buried, That's so useful and helpful it should have its own thread and be stickied.
But but but if people ask how to do, how will I increase my messages/day ratio ? :D
Joke aside, feel free to make a thread if you think it could be necessary.
I just own those screens, not the knowledge :D
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#29
racedaemon
xkm1948Hmmmmm, Now I am very tempted to update to 2004 Win10.

But then I have to install WSL2 and redo all of my terminal settings as well as all of my security keys. God damn it.
I force installed 2004 to play with WSL2 and in my experience the conversion was not automatic. I had to manually install the kernel (you get the link when trying to convert the image. This is only for the first time, afterwards it updates trough windows update ) and then i had to tell it to convert the WSL 1 image to WSL 2. You can even run WSL 1 and WSL 2 images side by side and convert them back and forth. I believe that settings and files on the converted image are kept.
On a related note MS is apparently working in partnership with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel on implementing hardware acceleration for Linux UI apps! There was talk of using CUDA for machine learning in the article I've read. Things are weird, in a good way.
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#30
robb
TomorrowWhere have you been living? Nvidia has forced GFE for years and there has NEVER been and option NOT to install this. That is why i linked TPU's own NV Clean Install.
You have no idea what the hell you're talking about. There has always been the option to skip GeForce experience when installing the drivers. The problem is people don't notice that when they first begin the driver installation because when they get to the second part is where it's greyed out.
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#31
loracle706
My final thought about this driver, after lot of testings, this is a good one a little bit better than 451.22, but i noticed a huge drop of fps when HAGS + game mode enabled, HAGS enabled only: same as disabled or sometimes less fps, so the better way is to disable HAGS and game mode, but driver is a way better than all lately whqls.
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#32
racedaemon
Is anybody using NVCleanstall able to access the control panel installed from the Windows Store? If i have the "Nvidia Display Container LS" service running the icon shows up but the app immediately exists after launch. If i have it disabled not even the tray icon shows up. Also i installed this version but 446.14 still show up as the installed version. I think I have to install it the old fashion way. :(
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#33
ViperXTR
Oh, Vulkan 1.2 on official non beta driver finally
Gonna test it on CEMU and Yuzu

Edit: Doesn't work on these drivers
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#34
W1zzard
racedaemonIs anybody using NVCleanstall able to access the control panel installed from the Windows Store? If i have the "Nvidia Display Container LS" service running the icon shows up but the app immediately exists after launch. If i have it disabled not even the tray icon shows up. Also i installed this version but 446.14 still show up as the installed version. I think I have to install it the old fashion way. :(
Let me look into that
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#35
biffzinker
I’m getting a strange stutter issue when scrolling in web pages with the latest Firefox after installing this driver. Turned on the hardware accelerated scheduling.

Edit: Turning off 'Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling' stopped the stuttering.
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#36
racedaemon
W1zzardLet me look into that
I uninstalled NVCleanstall and installed the driver from the executable. After this the control panel is working again. If i disable the "Nvidia Display Container LS" service the tray icon disappears and i can't run the control panel until i enable ti again. The strange thing is that the service was running after i tried to install the driver with the tool (i say "tried" because the driver version did not change, so ie guess it failed). The previous install with not working control panel was made with NVCleanstall. This might be because I disabled all non essential Nvidia stuff with Autoruns before installing NVCleanstall.

Edit: after posting it occurred to me that i should have searched the appropriate forum for NVCleanstall and not spam this one. Sorry.
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#37
P4-630
Removed a video since that was tested with 450.99....
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#38
cucker tarlson
P4-630Removed a video since that was tested with 450.99....
was gonna say
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#39
TheoneandonlyMrK
P4-630Removed a video since that was tested with 450.99....
Probably for the best it showed a negligible drop in performance, wouldn't mind a comparison video now with Pascal and Turing.
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#41
P4-630
theoneandonlymrkwouldn't mind a comparison video now with Pascal and Turing
Comparison with Hardware Accelerated Gpu Scheduling on and off in various games.
@W1zzard ?
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#43
ARF
P4-630Comparison with Hardware Accelerated Gpu Scheduling on and off in various games.
@W1zzard ?
It's available there : wccftech.com/hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling-performance-with-turing/

Conclusion
With only two cards and two games, I can't draw a hard conclusion across the board but we can see a tale of two different expectations. High-end enthusiast cards with plenty of VRAM to go around seem to not be impacted at this point, that could easily change over time as this is still a very new feature. BUT, if you're a bit more down the rung and your card has less VRAM or is in the entry to mid-range when we see the GTX 1650 SUPER gain 7-8% performance in Gears Tactics and 8-9% in Forza Horizon 4 there's no denying that this update gives graphics card users in that range a welcome push upwards in performance.
With the latest release of NVIDIA's GeForce 451.48 WHQL driver we see the first full Direct X12 Ultimate compliant support from any GPU maker.
AMD, where are you, AMD ?









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#44
loracle706
cucker tarlson451.48
5% in a cpu heavy game,not bad
It's not true, when HAGS enabled you get less fps.
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#45
ARF
AMD Hints at More Than 4 GB Graphics Memory As Standard on Next-Gen Radeon RX Graphics Card
In a recent blog post, AMD might have hinted at the end of the 4 GB entry-level graphics cards era as we get closer to the launch of thefirst RDNA 2 powered Radeon RX graphics cards.
wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-rdna-2-entry-level-graphics-cards-more-than-4-gb-memory-hint/

Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling:
High-end enthusiast cards with plenty of VRAM to go around seem to not be impacted at this point, that could easily change over time as this is still a very new feature. BUT, if you're a bit more down the rung and your card has less VRAM or is in the entry to mid-range when we see the GTX 1650 SUPER gain 7-8% performance in Gears Tactics and 8-9% in Forza Horizon 4 there's no denying that this update gives graphics card users in that range a welcome push upwards in performance.
wccftech.com/hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling-performance-with-turing/

AMD doesn't know what to do, it seems.
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#46
cucker tarlson
ARFAMD Hints at More Than 4 GB Graphics Memory As Standard on Next-Gen Radeon RX Graphics Card



wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-rdna-2-entry-level-graphics-cards-more-than-4-gb-memory-hint/

Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling:



wccftech.com/hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling-performance-with-turing/

AMD doesn't know what to do, it seems.
Dafuq you doing here posting about amd
loracle706It's not true, when HAGS enabled you get less fps.
Idk,this is what the numbers look like in the video.hags wins.
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#47
W1zzard
P4-630Comparison with Hardware Accelerated Gpu Scheduling on and off in various games.
Would love to, but unfortunately not happening. My VGA rig isn't on 2005 yet, and i'm busy with upgrading the ssd rig to pcie 4, and working on upcoming cpu reviews.
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#50
P4-630
cucker tarlsonWish someone tested a 2070 like
Test yourself....:p
I don't have access to my gaming rig this week (holiday), so that's why I was looking for this HAGS on/off fps.
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