Geforce Game Ready Driver 441.08 - Download & Discussion

GeForce Game Ready driver 441.08 includes the following changes

• Adds support for GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU
• Adds support for image-sharpening from NVIDIA Control Panel
  • Added Image Sharpening control to the NVIDIA Control Panel->Manage 3D Settings page.
    • Increases the level of sharpness, detail, or clarity of images in games and applications
• Adds support for G-SYNC compatibility with NVIDIA Ultra Low Latency Mode
  • Added Ultra Low Latency G-SYNC+ V-Sync feature
    • Provides tear-free, low-latency gaming using G-SYNC displays.
      • To enable, set Low Latency Mode to Ultra, turn on V-Sync, and enable the G-SYNC display.
• Adds support for 7 new G-SYNC compatible monitors
• Adds support for ReShade filters within GeForce Experience
• Adds support for HDMI 2.1 VRR.

Download:
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-441-08-whql-driver-download.html

Release Notes

Image Sharpening Feature
NVIDIA Control Panel Image sharpening controls, including GPU upscaling, are introduced in the R440 driver. Currently, the following limitations apply.

• Scaling is not supported on MSHybrid systems.
• Vulkan / OpenGL applications are currently not supported for sharpening.
• HDR displays driven by pre-Turing GPUs will not support scaling.
• Scaling will not work with VR.
• Scaling will not work with displays using YUV420 format.
• Scaling uses aspect ration scaling and will not use integer scaling.
• Sharpening will not work with HDR displays.
• GPU scaling engages when games are played only in full-screen mode, and not in windowed or borderless windowed mode.
• Some monitors, such as R2 and R3 monitors, have a 6-tap/64-phase scaler which scales better than that offered by Turing's 5-tap/32-phase scaler.
• To avoid accidentally triggering scaling by applications or DWM, first change to the desired (<native) resolution from the NVIDIA Control Panel and then launch the application.
• Turing's 5-tap upscaler may not engage on certain monitors, based on the monitor's vblanktiming.
  
• Turing's 5-tap upscaler may not engage if the input resolution is greater than 2560px in either the x or y dimension.
• Scaling is turned off automatically when switching display devices.
• "Restore Defaults" option in the control panel currently does not revert the upscaling resolution.

 

Branch : [ r440_98-5 ]
WDDM 2.6 (on 20H1)
The new Image Sharpening setting:

Spoiler: Picture

 

Comes with WDDM 2.7?

 

thanks for the quick mirror @Hilbert Hagedoorn

It is not a 20h1 driver.

 

why cant i find them in nvidia official page?

 

They aren't published yet

 

Vulkan / OpenGL applications are currently not supported for sharpening - too bad because this is the main point when using sharpening since ReShade doesnt support Vulkan yet....

 

19H2 comes with WDDM 2.7? WINDOWS 10 1909

 

no it doesn't.

 

And i have a HDR monitor thats procreating great Nvidia thx for nothing.

 

Added support for HDMI 2.1 VRR.​

 

how do i activate GPU upscaling?

 

Is it this driver then who will have "Reshade" in it ?

I saw it now "Adds support for ReShade filters within GeForce Experience"

 

release blog post: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gtx-16-series-super-game-ready-driver/
"In addition, you can use your GPU to render at a lower resolution and scale to your monitor’s native resolution to improve performance. For instance, if you have a 2560x1440 display, but set your game resolution to 1920x1080 because the game is too demanding for your current GPU, we’ll upscale the game’s graphics to 2560x1440 using a high-quality scaler, and then add a dose of sharpening to improve clarity of upscaled images."
"Note, on GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX 16-Series Turing architecture GPUs, scaling will leverage Turing’s new 5-tap scaling tech"

 

The Image Sharpening option seems to work pretty great, at least on COD MW 2019, didn't seem to be any increase in GPU utilisation and it gives a decent sharpening effect that I'd normally have to get from Reshade for instance and take a performance hit!
Unfortunately the sharpening didnt come out in screenshots taken with MSI Afterburner so I can't provide before and after shots.

 

Lets see what this driver fucks up! xD

 

GTA V still not fixed? Looks like I'll have to bring over that Studio driver into the new year.

 

ready for RDR2 with time to spare! I won't get chance to test this driver out until Thursday so if anyone install and tests kindly let me know if it works well.

 

A fix for GTA will likely come from Rockstar

 

Image sharpening not working on HDR monitors is a big disappointment