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Nvidia has just released new GeForce Drivers for supported Windows operating systems that introduces game ready support for Resident Evil 7 among other things.
Nvidia GeForce Drivers 378.49 is a WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) game ready driver for Windows that is available as a manual driver download, and through Nvidia's GeForce Experience software.
The new driver version for Nvidia video cards brings Game Ready support for the following three games: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Conan Exiles, and For Honor.
Game Ready Drivers are designed to configure supported games automatically for the best gaming experience. This can be useful to gamers who don't want to be bothered changing various game quality settings manually, but it happens that choices are not optimal for a PC's hardware.
Game Ready Drivers are for now available as a separate download, and through the GeForce Experience software. Nvidia announced some time ago that this won't be the case forever. The company plans to make Game Ready Drivers only available through GeForce Experinece updates -- which requires registration to be of any use -- and no longer as separate downloads.
Separate driver downloads will still be offered, but they will be updated less frequently.
As always, it is recommended to select custom installation during setup as this is the only way to prevent drivers and features from being installed on the machine that you don't require.
It depends on your setup if that is the case. If you don't make use of 3D for instance, you may want to disable the 3D drivers that come with the driver package.
Check this guide on disabling Nvidia services that get installed regardless of choice that you make during setup.
Last but not least, you may want to disable Nvidia Tracking on top of all that.
Besides delivering three Game Ready drivers for new games, issues were fixed in version 378.49.
A number of open issues are present as well. Make sure you go through them before updating to the new driver version:
Windows 10:
Windows 8.1
Windows 7
You can download the latest Nvidia drivers from the official Nvidia website.
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I have had too many problems recently with these Nvidia drivers preventing my PC from shutting down.
I am sticking with what I have until Nvida proves it can reliably put out drivers that work for the most part.
Must be a slow news day…
Resident Evil 7 is FPS? o.O I mean, I love FPS, it is my favourite genre but RE shouldn’t be FPS. 3rd person view gave you the advantage of seeing what happens behind you, potentially helping you when running away from a zombie or whatever creature. I don’t know how I feel about this, maybe it will work.. although I’m very skeptical until I’ll try it.
I just upgraded it, no issues so far… let’s hope it stays that way. :)
Same here.
OK
I updated to previous 376.33 only because of security concerns. Since 378.49 holds only improvements for games I’ll leave it aside.
Stable af! :)
This driver causes freezing in the OS itself, if Windows 10 can even boot. If failed to do so many times, I had to restore to a prevous Windows session.
THIS. Definitely on two machines.
After updating to the new driver version, 378.49, I noticed a lot of flickering while working in Photoshop CC (2017) which was not happening before I updated the drivers. I rolled the drivers back to the previous version and everything returned to normal. This is unfortunate because I participated in the For Honor Closed Beta and GeForce Experience did not recognize For Honor, so I just played on Extreme Settings – the game ran fine though.
I am running an i7-6700K @ 4.6 Ghz on a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 Mobo, 16 GB DDR4 TridentZ, EVGA GTX 1070 FTW, with a Corsair RM 750X PSU on Windows 10 – Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.693). So as you can see, it is not a hardware issue only the latest driver from Nvidia.
I am running two machines of my own, plus my wife’s on Nvidia cards and this sort of thing is not normally an issue for me. I have resolved to wait until the next driver is released or some news that Nvidia has addressed and corrected the issue.
Just to give an update: I have again installed the drivers (version 378.49) and I have not had anymore issues. Perhaps I only needed to refresh the previous driver installation – even though I have not had this issue in the past. Subsequently, all three of machines have been updated as all are running Nvidia cards. Both of my PCs are fine and my wife’s is fine as well.