Windows 10: GeForce Game Ready Driver installation error on Windows 11/10

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GeForce Experience is a driver & experience solution that NVIDIA offers all of its GPUs. Every time a new game is launched, you may see a game-ready driver available for install. However, when doing so, if you receive an error saying that Installation can’t continue and an error has occurred, then this post will help […]

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NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 375.86 WHQL Game Ready Driver

NVIDIA has just released the latest version of their GeForce drivers. The 375.86 WHQL Game Ready Driver features Game Ready profiles for Tom Clancy's The Division Survival DLC, Battlefield 1, Steep: Open Beta, and Civilization VI; and updates the SLI profiles by adding a temporal SLI profile for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The drivers also fix some know issues and leave some to fix at a later date - details which you can read right after the break.

As always, you can grab the drivers right here at TechPowerUp. Just follow the below links for your particular operating system.











DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 375.86 WHQL for Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 32-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 64-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 32-bit


Windows 10 Fixes

• [375.70] Smearing and ghosting reported with latest NVIDIA drivers. [1834593]
• [375.63, GeForce GTX 980 Ti] Artifacts in GIFs after driver update. [1831043]
• [SLI, GeForce GTX 1080] Unable to enable Surround with SLI HB bridge; singleribbon SLI bridge works fine. [1827915]
• Battle Carnival is falsely detected as Bionic Commando. [1825885]
• [G-SYNC, 372.70, GeForce GTX 1080] G-SYNC monitor flickers at 144 Hz, not reproduced with 368.81. [1822079]
• [SLI, 372.54] Wrong memory usage values in games on Pascal GPUs in SLI mode [1801306]
• [G-SYNC, GP102] Periodic flickering on desktop at 165 Hz when dragging or resizing windows with G-SYNC enabled. [1799297]

Windows 8 and 7 Fixes

• GeForce Experience icon missing on system notification tray. [200248470]
• [GeForce GTX 980 Ti] Unable to detect multiple TV models from Loewe Technologies GmbH. [1788948]

Important Open Issues Windows 10

• [GM204, Tom Clancy's The Division Survival DLC] Game crashes pointing to ntdll.dll when changed to full-screen and to windowed full-screen. [200252894]
• [SLI, Ansel, Dishonored 2] Severe flickering and a trailing mouse pointer seen in the game on the Ansel UI when the application is launched with SLI enabled. [200252635]
• [GM204, ShadowPlay] For Honor silently crashes if intro video is skipped and instant replay is on. [200247313]
• [SLI] [GeForce GTX 970M] Level loading hangs in Gears of War 4. [1826307]

Important Open issues Windows 7

• [SLI] Street Fighter V performance drop (pause and play) observed when the game is played at 4K resolution with SLI enabled. [200172046]

 

NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 385.28 Game Ready WHQL Drivers

NVIDIA today released the latest version of their GeForce drivers, which enable your green-powered card to run smoothly and without issues. This latest driver release is a Game-Ready WHQL one, which aims to enable the smoothest possible experience on recently-released game titles. The focus for this 38.28 version of NVIDIA's GeForce drivers was on Agents of Mayhem, Crossout and Killing Floor: Incursion, while also introducing a number of fixes. You can grab the drivers from the link below.









DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 385.28 WHQL Game-Ready Drivers



Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 385.28 ( R385.28 (r384_95-13) / 22.21.13.8528 (8-9-2017) )

• [GeForce GTX 1070][Doom]: The GPU clocks remain running at high performance speeds after exiting from the game. [1954033]
• [GeForce Experience]: "Any file is missing" error message appears when installing new drivers updated from GFE. [200306774]
• [Call of Duty Infinite Warfare]: Performance drop occurs with updated driver. [1955894]
• [SLI][Intel X299]: Low GPU usage resulting in poor performance occurs with the X299. [200331424]
• [GeForce MX150][Xiaomi TM1604 notebook]: There is no driver support for this product. [1963863]

Open Issues in Version 385.28 WHQL

Windows 10 Issues

• [SLI][GeForce GTX 780 Ti]: There is no display output when connecting the DisplayPort and two DVI monitors. [1835763]
• [GeForce GTX 1070][Surround]: The [Ctrl+Alt+S] keyboard shortcut does not enable or disable Surround. [1932397]
• [GeForce GTX 970][Quantum Break]: Drop in frame rate occurs when playing the game. [1955903]
• [GeForce GTX 1080][G-Sync]: With G-Sync enabled, stuttering occurs when playing games on the external display. [1931970]

No Windows 7 or 8 open issues listed.

Source: NVIDIA Forums

 

NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 382.53 Game Ready Graphics Drivers

NVIDIA today released the latest version of their GeForce graphics drivers. Version 382.53 of their drivers is a special, Game Ready release that provides the optimal gaming experience for DiRT 4 and Nex Machina. In addition, NVIDIA has added/updated SLI profiles for Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Little Nightmares, the phenomenon PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Transformers Online.

This release also features updated 3D Vision profiles for Tekken 7 (Fair); DiRT 4 (Not Recommended); Nex Machina (Not Recommended) and Quake Champions (Good). As always, you can grab the drivers right here on TPU. Just follow the link below, and feel free to peruse fixed and current issues after the break.







DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 382.53 Game Ready Drivers



Changes and Fixed Issues

• [DirectX 11 games]: On some titles, in-game V-Sync does not work if Fast Sync is selected from the NVIDIA Control Panel. Consequently, the game frame rate is not locked to the maximum refresh rate, resulting in possible tearing. [200304603]
• [Aerofly RC 7]: Corruption occurs in the game when shadows are enabled. [1921628]
• [OpenGL][Tombstone Enginer]: Driver update causes corruption in Tombstone engine games. [1915851]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX]: The secondary display remains blank after switching from Clone or Extended mode to secondary-only display mode. [200288996]

Windows 10 Issues

• [Firefox.exe]: Browser errors may occur or the browser may crash with NVIDIA drivers. [200301372]
• [Kepler GPUs][SteamVR]: The compositor fails when starting up. [1929201]
• [Power DVD 17]: The display may go blank while playing HDR video in exclusive full-screen mode. [200300818]
• [GeForce GTX 1070]: Games (Witcher 3, For Honor) do not recognize the custom refresh rates set using the NVIDIA Control Panel. [1916598]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX 1080][Battlefield 1 XP1]: With SLI enabled, corruption appears in the game when switching between full-screen and windowed mode. [1889162]
• [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Mass Effect: Andromeda]: Random memory errors may occur when playing the game. [1887520]
• [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Sid Meier's Civilization VI][G-Sync/SLI/DirectX 12]: Black corruption appears while entering the in-game menu after skipping the cutscene. [200283322]
• [Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Tom Clancy's The Division Survival DLC]: Game crashes, pointing to ntdll.dll when changed to full-screen and to windowed full-screen. [200252894]
• [Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][ShadowPlay][For Honor]: The game silently may crash if the intro video is skipped while instant replay is on. [200247313]
• [SLI][Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Gears of War 4]: Level loading may hang. [1826307]
• [GeForce Experience]: Driver installation may fail when attempting to perform a driver overinstall.
• To workaround, perform a clean installation.
• [Notebook][Pascal GPU]: The display remains blank while over installing the driver, requiring a reboot. [200273603]
• Error code 43 appears in the Device Manager after installing the driver with HDMI display connected. [200283276]
• Driver install/overinstall requires a reboot. [1757931]

Windows 7 Issues

• [GeForce GTX 1080] Battlefield 1 hangs when campaign loaded with Fast Sync enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200254350]