GTX 1070 Has missing features

[PashaM999]

Hello,
I own a gigabyte gtx1070 aorus, it works great, but there is a huge issue with it that I found out about recently: for some reason, it DOES NOT support Vulkan. I indeed can NOT launch any games which use this API. What is funnier, though, is the things we see in GPU-Z:

This is something that I have never seen before. I believe that all modern Nvidia GPUs should support at least CUDA and PhysX. OpenGl should also be supported I think...
I've got all the latest drivers installed, I even tried reinstalling the BIOs, which I downloaded from here (thanks), but still nothing.
I also had a problem when my PC suddenly turned off and after reboot the AORUS logo stopped lighting up (the GPU still works perfectly, and this includes fan control). Maybe this caused something to mess up? The biggest problem for me tho is the Vulkan support, I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with that.

 

[StefanM]

Installation is incomplete. Can happen if you change from one driver branch to another.
Repeat the installation or try another driver.

Otherwise open device manager, check whether GPU is activated.

 

[mbeeston]

nvidia opened ray tracing to pascal cards over the 1060 over a year ago

 

[PashaM999]

nvidia opened ray tracing to pascal cards over the 1060 over a year ago

I know that, thanks. I just thought this is something that will not show up as a feature in GPU-Z because it technically does not have the actual RTX cores.

 

[StefanM]

"On Pascal-architecture GPUs, we see that ray tracing and all other graphics rendering tasks are handled by FP32 Pascal shader cores."
Source: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gtx-dxr-ray-tracing-available-now/

 

[PashaM999]

Installation is incomplete. Can happen if you change from one driver branch to another.
Repeat the installation or try another driver.

Otherwise open device manager, check whether GPU is activated.

I was just downloading the drivers from Nvidia themselves and also tried through GeForce Experience. Maybe I am doing it wrong? Can you give a link to something that might help?

 

[StefanM]

If both fails, here is a third alternative: https://www.techpowerup.com/nvcleanstall/

 

[agent_x007]

There are two types of driver you can download for NV GPU :
1) DCH (for WIn10 Windows Store),
2) "Regular" (ie. any driver ever made for Windows Vista and later).
I prefer to use Regular driver, since it has better compatibility with monitoring software.
You have to DDU one (or use nvcleaninstaller), BEFORE using the other.

 

[PashaM999]

There are two types of driver you can download for NV GPU :
1) DCH (for WIn10 Windows Store),
2) "Regular" (ie. any driver ever made for Windows Vista and later).
I prefer to use Regular driver, since it has better compatibility with monitoring software.
You have to DDU one (or use nvcleaninstaller), BEFORE using the other.

DDU actually worked, I got to this:

But after rebooting the PC it got back to this:

That is still great, because Vulcan was the priority here, but wat are the chances that after another reboot it will be gone as well...
Actually, just double checked and now it is back to this:

That’s really funny. I guess the problem is solved, this is just really strange. Thank you for your help.

 

[kiriakost]

That’s really funny. I guess the problem is solved, this is just really strange. Thank you for your help.

No the problem it is not solved yet permanently, many people are not aware that CPU overclock this damages several windows operating system files, driver file corruption this is the norm because the first thing that someone will do when the system this is OCed beyond limits, this is benchmark due gaming.

Therefore there is nothing funny in this story.