NVIDIA Releases GeForce 461.92 WHQL Driver With Reflex Support In Overwatch And Other Enhancements

NVIDIA has released a fresh driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the GeForce 461.92 WHQL provides official support for NVIDIA Reflex in the competitive shooter Overwatch ( available on PTS test servers and halving latency).

Besides, the driver fixes a whole bunch of problems identified in previous versions:

• some desktop applications flickered or stuttered when the window was resized;
• On the GeForce GTX 1660 Super, random flickering appeared at the top of the monitor;
• Red Dead Redemption 2 in Vulkan mode displayed pixelated black dots or artifacts on the characters’ skin;
• loading matches in Rocket League took longer than expected;
• Fortnite has made shader cache optimizations to reduce stuttering on some PC configurations.
• Detroit: Become Human crashed on launch with sharpness enabled;
• Dungeon & Fighter flickered when choosing characters;
• Zoom displayed GeForce Experience overlays at the start of the conference;
• enabling NVIDIA Surround with 4K HDMI, 2.1 TVs crashed;
• plugging and unplugging a Samsung 8k TV resulted in a blue screen of death.NVIDIA engineers continue to work on bug fixes:
  • In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, the smoke appeared pixelated in Vulkan mode;
  • random flickering occurred in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands;
  • low frame rates in Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander 2;
  • Batman Arkham Knight crashes when you enable advanced smoke effects;
  • stuttering and lagging in Steam VR games when running any GPU monitoring tool in the background;
  • increased power consumption on Ampere and Turing cards in standby mode with active G-Sync technology;
  • stuttering when playing YouTube videos and scrolling down the page;
  • Pascal laptops with high refresh rates switch to 60Hz while gaming.You can download NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 461.92 WHQL for notebook and desktop versions with 64-bit Windows 10 through the GeForce Experience app or the NVIDIA website. The driver is dated March 16 and supports video cards of the GeForce 600 family and above.