GeForce 442.19 Game Ready Driver Download & Discussion

Our latest GeForce Game Ready driver delivers day-one support for Zombie Army: Dead War 4, Apex Legends: Season 4 and Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story, and adds support for three new G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors. And we've also tweaked the recently released Max Frame Rate and VRSS features.

Download:
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-442-19-whql-driver-download.html

Release Notes: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/442.19/442.19-win10-win8-win7-release-notes.pdf

Fixes and Updates:

-[The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine]: The game may crash when a user reaches a specific cut scene. [2726931]
-[Maxwell GPUs][OpenCL]: SETI@Home shows driver TDR occuring on Maxwell GPUs using OpenCL. [2739609]
-[Call of Duty Modern Warfare]: Streaming of gameplay using OBS will randomly stop. [2743477]
-[Battleye][Low-Latency Mode]: Launching Battleye with NVIDIA Low Latency Mode set to Ultra may cause DWM to reset. [2775906]
-[SLI+G-SYNC Stutter]: User may experience minor stuttering when using NVIDIA SLI in combination with G-SYNC. [2778783]
-[Doom (2016)]: The game crashes when launched on GeForce 600/700 series (Kepler) GPUs [2791124]
-[NVENC]: Memory leak occurs. [2805384]
-[Multiple Apps][SLI][G-SYNC]: Stuttering and drop in frame rate occurs during gameplay with SLI and G-SYNC enabled [200566678]

Open Issues:

-[Mortal Kombat]: The game may randomly crash to the desktop without error [2813996]
-[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable [2810884]
-[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Vulkan][HDR]:Corrupted flickering occurs when in-game HDR is enabled. [200585136] To work around, either disable HDR or use DirectX 12 mode.
-[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege][Vulkan][G-SYNC]: When playing the game in Vulkan mode with G-SYNC enabled, flickering occurs after switching the game between full-screen and windowed mode.[200578641] To work around, either disable G-SYNC or play using an API other than Vulkan.

 

My wild guess: Around when Doom Eternal and Windows 20H1 come out. So late March.

 

Different branch: 442.19 [r440_00-289]

Previous drivers:
442.01 [r441_83-5]
441.87 [r441_83-4]

 

Game ready driver provides the best bla, bla, bla for Zombie army 4
Open issue for zombie army 4
Trolololol.

 

"00" is main branch

 

what exactly did they tweak for the new frame limiter?

 

It has a wider range to choose from.

 

Why is the DCH driver only available?

Edit: Official site only gives you the dch version.

Here is standard,
https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/442.19/442.19-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe

 

Good drivers??? Nice performance???

 

these drivers! crash on me in Metro Exodus just after loading screen!
DX 12 RTX

 

I hope these drivers fix the black screen flicker seen in a few LG C9s when GSync is enabled.

 

I've just tested Metro Exodus - works perfect, no crash. Something on your end.

 

NVCPL shows up as an app and refuses to open. I did a clean install using the default installer.

Edit: Nvm, windows installed an older driver while the installer was running through its course.

 

Yea! for me to just deleted the game cfg and everything works smooth!

 

Just installed these using DDU so a clean install..now COD will not start AT ALL..getting a fatal error message .exe something or other.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modernwarfare/comments/eyg6jw/new_nvidia_drivers_installed_now_this/

 

please post info to this site, don't link back to a reddit post.

 

Sorry i wasnt sure how to post the image here..

 

Looks for 800 series drivers.
Sees that nvidia dropped support for this chipset causing my $2000 gaming laptop to be useless in new games.

I guess based on the evidence that nvidia doesn't support their products I should buy a laptop with amd graphics this time.

 

the only 800 series parts dropped were Kepler mobile, Maxwell 800 parts are still supported.

 

ok let's see