Nvidia’s Game Ready Drivers are continuously updated, with the support from the GPU manufacturer helping games both look their best and take minimal effort to get looking that way. Version 397.64 (WHQL) now out brings optimizations for several new releases, including Conan Exiles, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and the new Destiny 2 expansion, Warmind.

You can find some of the updates below, including both some now fixed and some still open issues for both Windows 10 and Windows 7 users. You can find those closed issues just below the story, but we’re going to call out some of the bigger persisting issues and their workarounds.

Far Cry 5 players trying to use HDR with non-native resolutions can resolve the green flickering by restarting the game while in their desired settings, or [Alt+Tab] out of the game and back into it. Wolfenstein II and Gears of War 4 players may also still experience crashes occasionally, regardless of their OS.

Fixed Issues

• [Starcraft 2][Kepler GPUs]: Black screen appears when exiting the game. [2070566]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX 780 Ti]: There is no display output when connecting the DisplayPort and two DVI monitors. [1835763]
• [Netflix]: Netflix playback may stutter intermittently. [2094867]
• [GeForce GTX 1060]: Windows Device Manager may report Code 43 error. [2109135]
• Event Error 14 appears in the Windows Event Viewer when booting into Windows.[2109510]
• GDI objects increase every time an application queries NVAPI. [2109232]
• [Windows 10]: Driver may get removed after the PC has been left idle for an extended
  period of time. [2110591]

PC gamers may often consider themselves the gaming elite and they often are, factually speaking, in possession of far superior gaming equipment. However, the high end equipment is constantly evolving and that of course has inherent problems, such as missing bugs and issues in testing.

Users of NVIDIA’s GTX 970 are reporting problems with VRAM allocation, it would seem there’s a problem at the moment that prevents users from efficiently allocating more than 3.5GB’s at a time. The problem isn’t an isolated case either after it was proven to be easily replicated. Guru3D’s Milan ran a comparison test between the GTX980 and GTX970 and found that the 970 was setting 3.5GB of VRAM on some recent AAA games whereas the 980 was using 4GB of VRAM in the same scenario and with the same settings.

The same results have been reported by other 970 users who benchmarked their own games and found their results to be the same. It’s not quite clear what’s going to happen from here given that both cards are supposed to support 4GB of VRAM by default. NVIDIA have got some work to do.

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