The new driver also provides Nvidia Ansel support for Epic Games’ free-to-play MOBA game Paragon. This feature enables players to create 2D, 360-degree and virtual reality 360-degree screenshots on GeForce GTX graphics cards. Users can add filters, adjust the field of view, the rotation, and save the images in a sharable format with just a single click.
Here are the fixes Nvidia made for six specific PC games:
| Second Life: | After disabling the Advanced Lighting Model option, the world view would be tinted blue. |
| The Division: | Shadows would begin to flicker after enabling Percentage Closer Soft Shadows (PCSS). |
| Battlefield 1: | On Kepler-based GPUs, the game would flicker when using Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA). |
| Battlefield 1 Day 28 Patch: | When SLI is enabled, the menu text would become jittery. |
| Heroes of the Storm: | The game would crash at launch on GTX 1080 cards. |
| Minecraft: | Nvinitx.dll was causing Java SE Binary crashes. |
Now here is a list of general fixes not tied to a specific PC game:
| Surround: | Previously, Surround couldn’t be enabled on the XGPU. |
| G-Sync: | A long delay was experienced when switching a game from full-screen to windowed when G-Sync and V-Sync were enabled simultaneously. |
| GeForce GTX 1080: | Launching games in SLI Surround mode using an HDMI 2.0 connection caused the system to crash. |
| GeForce 860M: | DirectX games would crash on notebooks with this discrete graphics chip. |
| GeForce GTX 980 Ti: | Previously, the driver couldn’t detect multiple TV models. |
Of course, there are still around 13 problems related to Windows 10 that still need to be fixed. There are two outstanding issues on Windows 8/8.1 as well along with three issues with Windows 7. All of this can be read in Nvidia’s release notes in a PDF file here.
Finally, here are the system requirements for the three PC games optimized by the new driver:
For Honor
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system: | Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 (64-bit) | Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 (64-bit) |
| Processor: | Intel Core i3-550 AMD Phenom II X4 955 |
Intel Core i5-2500K AMD FX-6350 |
| Graphics card: | GeForce GTX 660 GeForce GTX 750 Ti GeForce GTX 950 GeForce GTX 1050 |
GeForce GTX 680 GeForce GTX 760 GeForce GTX 970 GeForce GTX 1060 |
| System memory: | 4GB | 8GB |
| Storage: | 40GB | 40GB |
Halo Wars 2
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system: | Windows 10 Anniversary Update (64-bit) | Windows 10 Anniversary Update (64-bit) |
| Processor: | Intel Core i5-2500 AMD FX-4350 |
Intel Core i5-4690K AMD FX-8350 |
| Graphics card: | GeForce GTX 650 Ti | GeForce GTX 1060 |
| System memory: | 6GB | 8GB |
| Storage: | 25GB | 25GB |
Sniper Elite 4
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system: | Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 (64-bit) | Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 (64-bit) |
| Processor: | Intel Core i3-2100 AMD equivalent |
Intel Core i7-3770 AMD equivalent |
| Graphics card: | GeForce GTX 660 | GeForce GTX 970 |
| System memory: | 4GB | 8GB |
| Storage: | Unknown | Unknown |
As always, GeForce card owners can manually download and install the new driver from Nvidia’s website, or grab it through the GeForce Experience desktop client via the “Drivers” tab.
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