Download: GeForce 397.55 hotfix driver

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/04/2018 06:45 AM | source: | 158 comment(s)

Nvidia issued a hotfix driver, GeForce 397.55 are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes. These fixes (and many more) will be incorporated into the next official driver release, at which time the Hotfix driver will be taken down.

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1. As mentioned, Nvidia with this release officially halts support for 32-bit windows, as well as Fermi based graphics cards like GeForce GTX 480 and similar. We have a discussion thread open on this driver here in our Nvidia driver discussion forums.

This is GeForce Hot Fix driver version 397.55 that addresses the following

After driver installation, Device Manager may report Code 43 error on a few GTX 1060 cards models.
Netflix playback may occasionally stutter.
Added support for Microsoft Surface Book notebooks.
Windows 10: Driver may get removed after PC has been left idle for extended period of time.

It can be downloaded here.

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Im_Special
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#5543674 Posted on: 05/03/2018 10:49 PM

What does this even mean?

"Windows 10: Driver may get removed after PC has been left idle for an extended period of time."

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#5543676 Posted on: 05/03/2018 10:53 PM

It also applies to Windows 7 and 8, would have expected it to be a problem with Windows 10's default settings about driver updates but nope.

The fix applies to Windows 7/8 also but the side effect was different.

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#5543677 Posted on: 05/03/2018 10:54 PM

What does this even mean?

"Windows 10: Driver may get removed after PC has been left idle for an extended period of time."
I guess Windows idle system optimizer could remove the driver and install older.

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#5543678 Posted on: 05/03/2018 10:55 PM

What does this even mean?

"Windows 10: Driver may get removed after PC has been left idle for an extended period of time."
It means if you let your system idle for hrs it might have problems running any 3d GPU load.
You have to restart, there were a few reports of driver issues on this site after long runtimes.

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#5543680 Posted on: 05/03/2018 11:03 PM

How does one know they were affected? Will it be missing from my control panel "Programs" for example. I'll need to keep an eye on this.

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#5543681 Posted on: 05/03/2018 11:04 PM

Driver branch:
397.55: r397_05-20
397.31: r397_05-13

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#5543683 Posted on: 05/03/2018 11:20 PM

How does one know they were affected? Will it be missing from my control panel "Programs" for example. I'll need to keep an eye on this.

You would know, you probably get errors and maybe game not even start.
If you got 1060 or have any issues then install these.

Edit: I see you have 5xx card but this issue might affect all cards if you leave the system running a long time (like you don't shut it down at night).

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#5543685 Posted on: 05/03/2018 11:38 PM

Hmm interesting, they changed how installer behaves. Now it automatically deletes nvidia folder if you cancel installation right after it's done unpacking components. Oh well there's 7-zip to clean trash from the driver. Nice try nVidia :rolleyes:

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#5543693 Posted on: 05/04/2018 12:29 AM

Stopping the installer from littering C:\NVIDIA with all sorts of drivers you ever installed is only a good thing. Obviously they can't stop you from unpacking it manually, and if you believe that was a goal, you should get a tinfoil hat on. :p

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#5543695 Posted on: 05/04/2018 12:34 AM

I always unpack with WinRar and remove shit first anyway. I never run the actual file

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#5543697 Posted on: 05/04/2018 12:47 AM

This is the second time I clicked clean install and my game preferences were saved from the last version.
The last driver it worked but one before it happened, at first I thought I didn't check the clean install box good.
Also, this is the first time I got a pop up after installer started installing and then asking if Nvidia can install drivers.

GPU-Z still shows these as beta drivers.

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#5543698 Posted on: 05/04/2018 12:53 AM

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#5543701 Posted on: 05/04/2018 01:19 AM

- Windows 10: Driver may get removed after PC has been left idle for an extended period of time.

Interesting, maybe this is why i always found my pc frozen after i left it downloading games while i was out for work, i was expecting to see downloads finished but instead i found my computer completely in a screen froze state, the only way to fix was hard reset, gonna try this asap

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#5543704 Posted on: 05/04/2018 01:34 AM

I guess Windows idle system optimizer could remove the driver and install older.
It had nothing to do with actually removing the driver. the driver was still 100% intact file and service registration wise.

something just stopped working in the mix of things and GFE would stop being able to detect an installed driver, then offer to install it again.

This is the second time I clicked clean install and my game preferences were saved from the last version.
The last driver it worked but one before it happened, at first I thought I didn't check the clean install box good.
Also, this is the first time I got a pop up after installer started installing and then asking if Nvidia can install drivers.

GPU-Z still shows these as beta drivers.

U..m..... These ARE beta drivers.

Also the WHQL status of 397.31 was fixed with the April 28th re-release.

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#5543707 Posted on: 05/04/2018 01:56 AM

Duh, Yes I forgot the hotfix drivers are beta.

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