Nvidia today released the GeForce Game Ready WHQL-certified 418.91 drivers, bringing optimal experience and further optimizations to users utilizing ray tracing and
the recently-added DLSS support in Battlefield V. It also optimizes for Metro Exodus, which releases in two days –
with pre-load available on Steam .
It may be worth noting that Nvidia has
previously released three drivers optimizing performance for Battlefield V.
VIDEO Additionally, there are a few bug fixes in this release:
• [Battlefield 1]: Lines appear in the terrain with NVIDIA Control Panel anisotropic filtering override enabled.[1969966 There's a long list of known issues as well, including an acknowledgment for
a game-crashing bug in Apex Legends:
Windows 10 Issues • [G-SYNC]: With a G-SYNC and G-SYNC Compatible display connected in clone mode, flashing occurs on games played on the G-SYNC display with G-SYNC enabled. [200482157]
• [Apex Legends]: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG error message may appear and then the game crashes.[2503360]
• [Hitman 2]: Pixelated corruption appears in the game. [2504274]
• [Iray][OptiX]: Iray GPU acceleration crashes and falls back to CPU acceleration. [2503738]
• [HDR][Ni no Kuni 2]: Enabling HDR causes the application to crash when launched. [2483952]
• [ARK Survival]: Multiple errors and then blue-screen crash may occur when playing the game. [2453173]
• [Batman: Arkham Origins]: PhysX fog renders incorrectly [2451459]
• [Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox. [2107201]
• Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) is not available for monitors with 4k2k timings. [2496987]
• Random desktop flicker occurs on some multi-display PCs [2453059]
Windows 7 Issues • Random TDR events occur after updating to driver 418.81. [2500396]
• [iRay][OptiX]: iRay GPU acceleration crashes and falls back to CPU acceleration. [2503738]
Additional Issues • 2079538 - Random DPC watchdog violation error when using multiple GPUs on motherboards with LX chips
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Workaround : Use the following tool to enable MSI mode as a temporary workaround (only apply changes to each NVIDIA GPU installed):
github.com/CHEF-KOCH/MSI-utility/releases • 2449346-The Witcher 3 will BSOD with Bad Pool error randomly during gameplay
• 2451459-Batman: Arkham Origins: Physx fog rendering incorrectly
• 2453173-ARK Survival may crash with bad pool caller error and eventual BSOD
The 418.91 WHQL-certified drivers can be downloaded via the GeForce Experience app on Windows or via the links down below. The complete release notes are
available here .
Desktop GPUs:
Download:
Windows 7, 8, 8.1 | Windows 10 –
Standard /
DCH Notebook GPUs:
Download:
| Windows 10 -
Standard /
DCH source 
