NVIDIA’s Latest Game Ready Driver Brings NVIDIA Reflex Support to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Warzone

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NVIDIA has released its GeForce Game Ready 456.55 WHQL driver. This driver introduces support for NVIDIA Reflex (green team’s suite of latency-reducing technologies) in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. It also adds support for EA Motive’s action starfighter simulation, Star Wars: Squadrons, which releases this Friday (October 2).

“NVIDIA Reflex is a revolutionary suite of GPU, G-SYNC display, and in-game technologies that measure and reduce system latency in competitive titles,” the company wrote. “With the release of our new Game Ready Driver, and a new game update at 10pm PT on September 28, users with GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX 900 Series-and-newer GPUs can reduce system latency in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.”

Fixed Issues in this Release

  • [Omniverse 2020.2.4496]: Corruption occurs after switching from RTX Real-Time to RTX PathTraced renderer. [200649160]
  • [Vulkan games]: The GeForce Experience Performance Render Latency setting sometimes sticks at 0 on Vulkan games. [3129618]
  • Multiple G-SYNC Compatible monitors were removed from the G-SYNC Compatible list in the driver. [3130059]
  • There is a slight increase in the Windows Event Log CPU utilization. [200659659]
  • NVIDIA Container service may crash upon resume from system sleep /hibernate mode. [200658281]
  • [Notebook]: Performance Power Mode cannot be set from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200657525]

Windows 7 Issues

  • [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

Windows 10 Issues

  • [World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
  • [Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
  • [Call of Duty – Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
  • [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
  • [Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328] To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
  • [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
  • You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See “Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store” on page 21 for more information.
  • [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
  • [G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]
  • [GeForce RTX 3080/3090]: Samsung G9 49” display goes black at 240 Hz. [3129363]
  • [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
  • [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

You can download the new GeForce Game Ready 456.55 WHQL driver through GeForce Experience or NVIDIA’s GeForce Drivers page. The release notes can be accessed here.

Tsing Mui
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