NVIDIA Launches First WHQL-signed Windows 10 GeForce Driver

btarunr · May 18, 2015

NVIDIA announced the first WHQL-signed driver for Windows 10. GeForce 352.84 WHQL offers full compliance to WDDM 2.0 specification, and offers support for DirectX 12 (feature level 12_0) on supported GPUs (all chips based on the "Kepler" and "Maxwell" architectures). There are no games that take advantage of DirectX 12 right now, but NVIDIA suggested a few tech-demos you can toy with, such as Forza DX12 renderer, Fable Legends DX12 Game Demo, Witch Chapter 0 DX12 SLI_support, King of Wushu DX12, and the Unreal Engine Race DX12 demo. DirectX 12 is highly anticipated among game developers, as it provides a leap in performance due to the way it handles multi-CPU. For the first time, 3D graphics rendering can take advantage of any number of CPU cores you throw at them, allowing game developers to increase eye-candy and detail. DirectX 12 will debut with Windows 10, which launches this July.

DOWNLOAD: GeForce 352.84 WHQL for Windows 10 Desktop GPUs | Notebook GPUs

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damric · May 18, 2015

Great now can they release a non-gimped version of the GTX 970?

TheLostSwede · May 18, 2015

Except it doesn't help...
Windows 10 somehow magically sees my UEFI disabled Intel GPU as the main GPU and refuses to let my Nvidia card work as it should and just reports that there's an issue and as such the card can't be enabled...

dj-electric · May 18, 2015

damric said:
Great now can they release a non-gimped version of the GTX 970?

You're asking for a complete product with bad PR and wrong release specs to be fixed.

MxPhenom 216 · May 18, 2015

damric said:
Great now can they release a non-gimped version of the GTX 970?

Yeah its called a GTX 980.

Steevo · May 18, 2015

DX12.0, not the final 12.3 spec they should have, but its OK, they will make another card for that later, just buy it then.....

Fierce Guppy · May 18, 2015

Nvidia has said DX12 is coming to Fermi, Kepler, and Maxwell. Why has there been no DX12 support for Fermi in nVidia's Windows 10 drivers?

Recus · May 18, 2015

Fierce Guppy said:
Nvidia has said DX12 is coming to Fermi, Kepler, and Maxwell. Why has there been no DX12 support for Fermi in nVidia's Windows 10 drivers?

...with support for Fermi coming later.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/05/15/dx-12-game-ready-drivers/

birdie · May 18, 2015

Fierce Guppy said:
Nvidia has said DX12 is coming to Fermi, Kepler, and Maxwell. Why has there been no DX12 support for Fermi in nVidia's Windows 10 drivers?

They promised such drivers when Windows 10 hits RTM. Be patient.

NC37 · May 18, 2015

Fermi should have been a given. Especially since it was the first really groundbreaking GPU since they rehashed the heck out of the 8800s. Its not a super different design from Kepler.

Fluffmeister · May 18, 2015

Good stuff, see the tears are flowing already.

mroofie · May 18, 2015

Fluffmeister said:
Good stuff, see the tears are flowing already.

lol

rtwjunkie · May 18, 2015

damric said:
Great now can they release a non-gimped version of the GTX 970?

No. All a driver can do is help utilization. You can't fix a physically cut/disabled memory controller.

$ReaPeR$ · May 18, 2015

cewl! lets see some tests..

cheesy999 · May 18, 2015

btarunr said:
NVIDIA suggested a few tech-demos you can toy with, such as Forza DX12 renderer

where to download?

RejZoR · May 18, 2015

I hate hybrid GPU systems. They all suck to the max. The amount of bull that I had to deal on a laptop with dedicated GPU without option to force disable that Intel integrated crap was just out of this world. And it still doesn't work right...

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