Following the launch of Sniper Elite 4, Halo Wars 2 and For Honor, NVIDIA releases a new driver supporting all those titles. For that purpose the GeForce 378.66 WHQL driver has been launched and it’s also supposed to address some bugs that have surfaced.


First of all: we would have expected NVIDIA to address some of the issues gamers are having with Battlefield 1 lately. In their official community forums there is a thread on Battlefield 1, which has grown to over 540 pages within the past few months. Users are still mentioning continuous crashes on GTX 700 series cards in particular on the GTX 770. So far they’re left with a DirectX error and it looks like NVIDIA hasn’t addressed the issues yet.

The latest version of NVIDIA’s WHQL 378.66 drivers, fixes issues that were present with previous releases, like for instance level loading in Gears of War 4, as well as the freezing issue and problems related to blank screens after shutdown or hibernation.

As always, you can download the new GeForce 378.66 WHQL Game Ready drivers over at NVIDIA's support page or automatically via Geforce Experience software.
New Features

• Video SDK 8.0
• High-bit-depth (10/12-bit) decoding (VP9/HEVC)
• OpenGL input surface support for encoder
• Weighted Prediction
• H.264 ME-only mode enhancements

Application SLI Profiles

• No SLI profiles were added with this version

Windows 10 Issues

• [Pascal][Notebook]: The display remains blank while over installing the driver, requiring a reboot. [200273603]
• [GeForce GTX 980][CUDA]: Driver error occurs when trying to compute with GPUGrid CUDA application.[1869402][NVENC][Steam]: NvFBC H.264 encode crashes. [1867544]
• [Surround][DirectX 11 apps] Only red and blue colors are visible when playing videos at resolutions >= 1080P on one surround monitor.[200273552][GM204, Tom Clancy's The Division Survival DLC] Game crashes pointing to ntdll.dll when changed to full-screen and to windowed full-screen. [200252894][GM204, ShadowPlay] For Honor silently crashes if intro video is skipped and instant replay is on. [200247313]
• [SLI] [GeForce GTX 970M] Level loading hangs in Gears of War 4. [1826307]
• [367.77, WDDM 2.1] Driver install/overinstall requires reboot. [1757931]
• [SLI, GP104] Installer prompts for reboot during express overinstall of 372.69 driver on 372.54. [200231806][GM204] Quantum Break window either remains blank or freezes in game scene in windowed mode. [1804910]
• Surround Display icon disappears after rotate mode set to portrait. [200201040]
• [SLI] Street Fighter V performance drop (pause and play) observed when the game is played at 4K resolution with SLI enabled. [200172046]
• [Luxmark 3.0] Display driver stopped responding while running benchmark LuxBall HDR (Simple Bechmark:217K triangles). [200153736]
• [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. [1591053]

Windows 8.1/Windows 8 Issues

• [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. [1314811]
• [Video, Notebook] The NVIDIA Control Panel video color settings have no effect on YouTube flash video playback within Internet Explorer 10. [999485] Windows 7 Issues
• [GeForce GTX 1080] Battlefield 1 hangs when campaign loaded with Fast Sync enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200254350]
• [SLI] Street Fighter V performance drop (pause and play) observed when the game is played at 4K resolution with SLI enabled. [200172046]
• [3DVision] While a stereoscopic 3D video with stereoscopic 3D enabled is played, the monitor refresh rate switches to 60 Hz aft
  er changing the resolution using the Windows control panel. [1314811]

Source: OC3D