Nvidia Adds Support For 2060 RTX Graphics Cards
Nvidia released their Geforce 471.17 drivers today. These drivers bring with it something people have been waiting to see for a long time now. The new Geforce 471.17 drivers bring support for Freesync. Geforce 471.17 drivers bring support for the new line of 2060 graphics cards as well. The new graphics cards are available at retailers everywhere today.
Here is a list of the new features with the Geforce 471.17 drivers update.
This release supports the following APIs:
- Open Computing Language (OpenCLTM software) 1.2 for NVIDIA® KeplerTM and later
GPUs - OpenGL® 4.6
- Vulkan® 1.1
- DirectX 11
- DirectX 12 (Windows 10)
What’s New in Version 417.71 WHQL
Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new
releases, including Virtual Reality games. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team
is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is
included for the best gameplay on day-one.
Gaming Technology
Includes support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards as well as support for GSYNC compatible monitors.
3D Vision Profiles
Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider – Not Recommended
• Darksider 3 – Fair Software Module Versions
• nView – 149.34
• HD Audio Driver – 1.3.38.4
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.18.0907
• GeForce Experience – 3.16.0.140
• CUDA – 10.0
Product Support
- Added support for GeForce RTX 2060
New Features
- G-SYNC Compatible Support
NVIDIA G-SYNC can now be used to activate the VRR features of G-SYNC
Compatible displays. G-SYNC Compatible displays have been validated by NVIDIA
to not show pulsing, flickering, or other artifacts during VRR gaming. See https://
www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/ for the list of GSYNC Compatible displays.
• G-SYNC on G-SYNC Compatible displays is supported only with NVIDIA Pascal
and later GPU architectures.
• Only single displays are currently supported; multiple monitors can be connected
but no more than one display should have G-SYNC enabled.
Fixed Issues in this Release
• [GeForce GTX 1080]: GPU clock speed does not drop to idle when three monitors are
enabled. [2474107]
• Black screen when resuming from monitor sleep on some DisplayPort monitors.
[2457142]
• [Notebook]: Fixed lockup that occurred when resuming from sleep on MSI GT83
notebook [2456849]
• [GeForce GTX 1060 Notebook][Gu Jian Qi Tan 3]: The application hangs during
launch. [200477252]
• Fixed black screen on BenQ XL2730 monitor at 144Hz refresh rate [2456730]
• [Windows 7][G-SYNC]: Game FPS drops when G-SYNC is used with V-Sync.
[200473408]
• [SLI][3D Gaming][TU104][PG 180][Multiple apps][Win10RS5x64]Blocky Corruption
when application is switched to certain resolutions [200465152]
• [Shadow of the Tomb Raider]: Fixed occasional application crash in DirectX 12 mode.
[200464716]
Open Issues in Version 417.71 WHQL
As with every released driver, version 417.71 WHQL of the Release 415 driver has open
issues and enhancement requests associated with it. This section includes lists of issues
that are either not fixed or not implemented in this version. Some problems listed may
not have been thoroughly investigated and, in fact, may not be NVIDIA issues. Others
may have workaround solutions.
For notebook computers, issues can be system-specific and may not be seen on your
particular notebook.
Windows 10 Issues
• [SLI][Shadow of the Tomb Raider][G-SYNC]: Flickering occurs in the game when
launched with SLI, HDR, and G-SYNC enabled [200467122]
• [HDR][Ni no Kuni 2]: Enabling HDR causes the application to crash when launched.
[2483952]
• [ARK Survival]: Multiple errors and then blue-screen crash may occur when playing
the game. [2453173]
• [Firefox]: Cursor shows brief corruption when hovering on certain links in Firefox.
[2107201]
• [G-SYNC]: Random flickering occurs when connecting G-SYNC monitor + non-GSYNC HDMI monitor with G-SYNC enabled. [2399845]
That’s it for this driver release. You can manually get the new driver from here. Enjoy testing out the GSync feature that you’ve been waiting for. Let’s hope everything works out like it should with your particular monitor.