Download: NVIDIA GeForce 461.40 WHQL drivers

#5881375 Posted on: 01/26/2021 04:56 PM

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Studio Driver 461.40



Games which used the RE2 engine may crash in DirectX 11 mode 
: Webcam video image colors on the receiving end of Zoom may appear incorrect. 
: The game randomly crashes.  : Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game (without running any GPU hardware monitoring tool in the background).
 : The game may randomly crash after extended gameplay
 PC may restart when enabling NVIDIA Surround with GSYNC enabled on RTX 30 series GPUs.
 : The FPS counter is activated and the overlay appears on Windows Mail and Calendar applications.
 : Blue-screen crash (UNEXPECTED KERNEL MODE TRAP) may occur.
 : The desktop screen may flicker. 
: The system may freeze with the screen displaying as solid color.
 : With HDR enabled, black levels are incorrect, notably on LG OLED TVs. 
: The notebook displays corruption after waking from sleep.
 Blue-screen crash (0x116) may occur upon resuming from sleep mode when three 4k monitors are connected.

#5881379 Posted on: 01/26/2021 05:05 PM

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You may want to double check that 461.40 installed properly.. I Installed 461.40 on top of Windows 10's default 432.00, ticking "perform a clean installation". The setup process went through ok. I rebooted the pc and thought everything was fine. But it seems there's some confusion which driver is installed on my system. NVCP states that 456.71 is installed, apps & features thinks 461.40 is installed.

This is the only Nvidia driver I have installed since installing a fresh copy of Win 10 20h2 19042.746 two days ago.

Nethertheless I'll be using DDU to wipe the driver later.




Edit - I think I've worked out why this happened. After clean installing Windows 10 20h2, Nvidia driver 432.00 installed itself automatically (as it usually does), I checked again for windows updates and noticed there was an additional Nvidia driver update available, under "View optional updates". That driver must of been 456.71 (it was worded slightly differently, a longer number, the same format as it appears in device manager). I chose not to install the optional driver - as I was going to install a more recent driver anyway, but once I began the 461.40 installation, it seems Windows intervened and decided to install 456.71 instead. It almost seems like the optional 456.71 driver was already downloaded, waiting in line to be installed at the next opportunity it could get (interupting Nvidias setup in the process!). I suppose one way to prevent this from happening would be to install Windows optional Nvidia driver prior to installing 461.40.

Steps to reproduce :

- Install Windows 10 20h2 19042.746 (the exact version may not matter)
- Let windows install the default 432.00 Nvidia driver and reboot
- Check for Windows updates, click "View optional updates", there should be a Nvidia driver available but do not install it
- Download and install this 461.40 driver
- Run the installation - Select custom
- Tick "Perform a clean installation" click next, let it finish
- Immediately restart Windows
- Open Nvidia control panel, click system information and check driver version, it will say 456.71

#5881380 Posted on: 01/26/2021 05:06 PM

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Still no fixes for the high DPC Latency in both the 461.06 and 461.33

#5881382 Posted on: 01/26/2021 05:15 PM

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Still not fixed:
: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game
: The games experience low FPS.
Wallpaper Engine app may crash on startup or upon resume from sleep.
: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled.
: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background.
: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors.
YouTube: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page.
: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay.
: Performance drop occurs when using G-SYNC and switching from full-screen mode to windowed mode using the in-game settings. To workaround, either launch the game in windowed mode directly or disable G-SYNC.

#5881394 Posted on: 01/26/2021 05:49 PM

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I take it the nvidia fps limiter not working properly with some games hasn't been fixed either ?https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/425566/apex-frametime-issues-with-latest-nvidia-drivers-o/
They don't even acknowledge the issue so I assume so...