NVIDIA STUDIO Graphics Driver 441.12 for Windows 10 64-bit

Applications

- Available just in time for the latest releases at Adobe MAX, our new NVIDIA Studio Driver provides optimal support for Adobe Dimension, Adobe Premiere Pro, Substance Alchemist and more.

NVIDIA OptiX 7

- The latest NVIDIA Studio Driver also adds support for OptiX 7, a powerful ray-tracing API that is being implemented by leading 3D renderers including the Blender Cycles 2.81 Beta.

Performance

- Beyond supporting the latest features and functionality of the newest applications, NVIDIA Studio Drivers continue to offer the best performance and reliability for current applications as well. To that end, the new Studio Driver provides a significant performance improvement in a wide variety of current creative applications including Autodesk Arnold, Adobe Premiere Pro, REDCINE-X Pro, and more.

ReShade Support

- Game broadcasters and content creators can now easily tailor the look and feel of their gameplay with support for hundreds of Reshade filters. With the launch of the new Studio Driver and a new GeForce Experience update, a vast library of these filters can be utilized in over 650 games to adjust the look and feel of your gameplay in real-time using NVIDIA Freestyle.

Fixed Issues in this Release

- [AutoCAD 2017][Maya]: White screen or blue-screen crash may occur. [2511117]
- [Apex Legends]: Random flickering occurs on the screen. [2709770]
- [Cinema 4D]: Trailing ghosting effect appears when moving the brush tool. [2633267]
- [Control][DirectX 12][Pascal GPUs]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when in-game software Ray Tracing is enabled. [200543646]
- [FIFA 19/FIFA 20]: The game may crash to the desktop. [2690624/2713659/200559659]
- [Fortnite][CS:Go]: Eliminated cases of stutter when Ultra low latency mode was enabled. [2682105]
- [Forza Horizon 4]: Colored corruption appears in the game during gameplay. [200544234]
- [Forza Motorsport 6/7]: The game may crash during gameplay. [2686338]
- [Forza Motorsport 7]: There is corruption on the tracks in the game. [2682129]
- [Growtopia][GeForce RTX]: The game crashes when launched. [2709649]
- [World of Warcraft]: Flickering occurs on the character select screen. [2684628]
- [Shadow Of The Tomb Raider][DirectX 12]: The game crashes after hitting a TDR error. [200549489]
- [Star Wars: Battlefront II]: Random crashes to the desktop occur. [200550245 ]
- [Tom Clancy's The Division II]: The game may crash when played in DirectX 12 mode. [200406322]
- [Tradesmen OS3DE]: Objects are missing in the game. [2691363]
- [UBOAT]: The game crashes due to memory allocation issues when launching Sandbox mode from the main menu. [2694301]
- [World of Warcraft]: The game may flicker at the character-selection screen. [2684628]
- [GeForce RTX 20 series][Forza Horizon 4][Gears of War 4][Gears 5]: Colored corruption may appear on some surfaces throughout the game. [200544234]
- [Vulkan-based games]: Error message appears in the game when invoking GeForce Experience Freestyle or Ansel using the hot keys. [200549987]
- [Firefox][G-SYNC]: When G-SYNC is enabled, flickering occurs with YouTube full-screen video playback on FireFox when hovering over the timeline. [200544130]
- [SLI][Shadow of the Tomb Raider]: The game crashes with "DXGI DEVICE HUNG Error" while being launched. [200541075]
- Mouse cursor may not render correctly after exiting a game. [2645203]
- System crash occurs while installing the drivers on a system with GPUs from mixed architectures; for example, Fermi and Pascal. [2676468]
- [NVIDIA Control Panel - Russian]: There is a typographical error in the Manage 3D Settings->DSR settings text. [2659281]
- [Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M]: The GPU clock speed on some notebooks is stuck at the base clock speed and does not boost. [2683147]

Other changes in this Release:

- Added support for the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
- Adds support for the HTC VIVE Cosmos VR HMD.
- Added security updates for driver components.
- Added Image Sharpening control to the NVIDIA Control Panel->Manage 3D Settings page. Increases the level of sharpness, detail, or clarity of images in games and applications. Note: As with all 3D settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel, you can enable Image Sharpening globally, or selectively enable/disable per game as needed (using the Program Settings tab).
- Added Ultra Low Latency G-SYNC+ V-Sync feature. Provides tear-free, low-latency gaming using G-SYNC displays. To enable, set Low Latency Mode to Ultra, turn on V-Sync, and enable the G-SYNC display.
- Added support for windowed G-SYNC for OpenGL and Vulkan-based applications.
- Added support for HDMI 2.1 VRR.
- Added Beta support for GPU Integer Scaling. New control in the NVIDIA Control Panel->Display->Adjust desktop size and position page. Supported on NVIDIA Turing GPUs and later; Windows 10 April 2018 Update and later. Integer scaling is a new GPU scaling method which scales smaller-than-native-resolutionsize source content by duplicating the pixels at the maximum possible integer factor on the horizontal and vertical directions.
- Added Beta support for Ultra-Low Latency Mode. New control in the NVIDIA Control Panel->3D->Manage 3D Settings page. Offers improved latency for DirectX games. Currently not supported under SLI mode, DirectX 12, or on Microsoft Hybrid notebooks.
- Updated the NVIDIA Control Panel->3D Settings->Texture Filtering-Quality control to default to “High Quality” for Quadro products.
- Added support for new Freestyle Sharpen Filter. Released as an update to NVCamera (for Freestyle and Ansel).
- Added GPU paravirtualization support for Microsoft Hybrid notebooks.
- Added support for 30-bit color.
- Added ability to update the NVIDIA VirtualLink PPC firmware from the NVIDIA Control Panel

Added driver support for Video Codec SDK 9.1

- Added a new NVENCODE API to more detailed error reporting.
- Added support for CUStream in NVENCODE API to facilitate parallel execution of pre-/post-processing of video on CUDA and encoder tasks.
- Implemented bug-fixes and API enhancement to support H.264 MVC encoding.

Added driver support for Optical Flow SDK 1.1

- Added new algorithms to improve the quality of flow vectors for “SLOW” preset, especially for flat regions.
- Added a new API to retrieve the highest Optical Flow SDK version supported by the underlying driver.

Windows 10 Issues:

- [Battlefield V][G-SYNC][HDR]: When G-SYNC and HDR are enabled, the game cannot be maximized to full-screen after being minimized to the taskbar. [200558314]
- [Grand Theft Auto V]: The game frequently crashes. NVIDIA is working with the application developer to resolve the issue.

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

- BattleTech
- Close to the Sun
- Dakar18
- Darwin Project
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Fe
- Fear the Night
- Heavy Rain
- Nelo
-  Overkill's The Walking Dead
- PC Building Simulator
- Remnant: From the Ashes
- Starlink: Battle for Atlas
- The Outer Worlds (NVIDIA Turing GPUs only)
- Warhammer: Chaosbane

This release supports the following APIs:

- Open Computing Language (OpenCL software) 1.2 for NVIDIA Kepler and later GPUs
- OpenGL 4.6
- Vulkan 1.1
- DirectX 11
- DirectX 12

Software Module Versions:

- nView - 149.77
- HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.21
- NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218
- GeForce Experience - 3.20.0.118
- CUDA - 10.1
- Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0
- DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.956.0

Compatible NVIDIA TITAN Series:

- NVIDIA TITAN RTX, NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal)

Compatible GeForce 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

Compatible GeForce 16 Series:

- GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce GTX 1650

Compatible 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

About Graphics Drivers:

While installing the graphics driver allows the system to properly recognize the chipset and the card manufacturer, updating the video driver can bring about various changes.

It can improve the overall graphics experience and performance in either games or various engineering software applications, include support for newly developed technologies, add compatibility with newer GPU chipsets, or resolve different problems that might have been encountered.

When it comes to applying this release, the installation steps should be a breeze, as each manufacturer tries to make them as easy as possible so that each user can update the GPU on their own and with minimum risks (however, check to see if this download supports your graphics chipset).

Therefore, get the package (extract it if necessary), run the setup, follow the on-screen instructions for a complete and successful installation, and make sure you reboot the system so that the changes take effect.

That being said, download the driver, apply it on your system, and enjoy your newly updated graphics card. Moreover, check with our website as often as possible in order to stay up to speed with the latest releases.