Nvidia GeForce Drivers for Windows 378.49 released

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.

Nvidia GeForce Drivers 378.49

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.

Fixed Issues in Nvidia GeForce Drivers 378.49

Besides delivering three Game Ready drivers for new games, issues were fixed in version 378.49.

• [GeForce TITAN X][Just Cause 3] Random flashes occur in the game.
• [GeForce GTX 1080][Wargames: Red Dragon]: The system reboots after switching to
  full-screen mode while playing the game.
• [GeForce GTX1080]: Random TDR/black screens occur when running GPU-intensive
  Direct X applications after updating to Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
• [GeForce GTX 1070][Alienware Graphics Amplifier] The graphics card is not detected
  upon installing the driver.
• [GeForce GTX 1070][Battlefield 1] Rain puddles appear dark.
• [GeForce GTX 1060] A superfluous audio end point entry appears in the Windows
  Sound Devices panel after resuming from hibernate mode.
• Assassins Creed - Syndicate shows intermittent flickering black or white patches on
  game character faces.
• [SLI][Battlefield 1]: Texture flickering occurs in the game with SLI enabled.
• [Hitman pro][DirectX 12] Flickering corruption appears in the game if the multi-GPU
  option is enabled from the in-game settings.
• [Folding @ Home] Work unit errors occur.
• [Diablo 3 DirectX 11] SLI profile needed.

Open Issues in Nvidia GeForce Drivers for Windows 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:

• [Surround][DirectX 11 apps] Only red and blue colors are visible when playing videos
  at resolutions >= 1080P on one surround monitor.
• [GM204, Tom Clancy's The Division Survival DLC] Game crashes pointing to
  ntdll.dll when changed to full-screen and to windowed full-screen.
• [GM204, ShadowPlay] For Honor silently crashes if intro video is skipped and instant
  replay is on.
• [SLI] [GeForce GTX 970M] Level loading hangs in Gears of War 4.
• [367.77, WDDM 2.1] Driver install/overinstall requires reboot.
• [SLI, GP104] Installer prompts for reboot during express overinstall of 372.69 driver on
  372.54.
• [GM204] Quantum Break window either remains blank or freezes in game scene in
  windowed mode.
• Surround Display icon disappears after rotate mode set to portrait.
• [SLI] Street Fighter V performance drop (pause and play) observed when the game is
  played at 4K resolution with SLI enabled.
• [Luxmark 3.0] Display driver stopped responding while running benchmark LuxBall
  HDR (Simple Bechmark:217K triangles).
• [347.09, GM204] Blank screen observed on an ASUS Tiled display when system resumes from shutdown or hibernation with Fast boot option enabled from BIOS.

Windows 8.1

• [3DVision] While a stereoscopic 3D video with stereoscopic 3D enabled is played, the
  monitor refresh rate switches to 60 Hz after changing the resolution using the
  Windows control panel.
• [Video, Notebook] The NVIDIA Control Panel video color settings have no effect on
  YouTube flash video playback within Internet Explorer 10.

Windows 7

• [GeForce GTX 1080] Battlefield 1 hangs when campaign loaded with Fast Sync
  enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel.
• [SLI] Street Fighter V performance drop (pause and play) observed when the game is
  played at 4K resolution with SLI enabled.
•  [3DVision] While a stereoscopic 3D video with stereoscopic 3D enabled is played, the
  monitor refresh rate switches to 60 Hz after changing the resolution using the
  Windows control panel.

You can download the latest Nvidia drivers from the official Nvidia website.