Nvidia GeForce 496.76 maakt Nvidia Image Scaling open source

Het is tijd voor een belangrijke driver voor de Nvidia-gebruikers onder ons, want GeForce 496.76 maakt Nvidia Image Scaling open source voor ontwikkelaars. Daarnaast kaart Nvidia aan, zoals te lezen in haar blog, dat de werking van de upscaler aanzienlijk is verbeterd. Liefhebbers kunnen met deze driver terecht in het configuratiescherm om vijf schaalbare resoluties in te stellen. Hieronder is een voorbeeld vanuit Nvidia voor 4K, 1440p en 1080p.

Mocht je dus interesse hebben in het gebruik van Nvidia Image Scaling, dan kan je terecht bij het gelinkte artikel en logischerwijs zelf rommelen na installatie van GeForce 496.76.

Scaling % | Input Resolution for 4K Output | Input Resolution for 1440p Output | Input Resolution for 1080p Output
85% | 3264 x 1836 | 2176 x 1224 | 1632 x 918
77% | 2954 x 1662 | 1970 x 1108 | 1477 x 831
67% | 2560 x 1440 | 1706 x 960 | 1280 x 720
59% | 2259 x 1271 | 1506 x 847 | 1129 x 635
50% | 1920 x 1080 | 1280 x 720 | Not Supported by Windows

Opvolgend zijn er nog belangrijke zaken om te benoemen, want GeForce 496.76 betreft de Game Ready Driver voor Battlefield 2042 met DLSS-ondersteuning. Daarnaast verhelpt deze versie wat cruciale beveiligingsproblemen, zoals te lezen in Nvidia’s Security Bulletin 5230.

496.76: nieuwe titels die Game Ready zijn

Battlefield 2042

Vervolgens zijn er wat problemen verholpen in GeForce 496.76 met allerlei games, waaronder Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Far Cry 6 en Red Dead Redemption 2.

496.76: Fixed issues

[WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship/WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship]: The games crash on launch. [3409320/3409312]

[Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint]: Textures in the game may flicker. [3410593]

[Transport Fever]: The game crashes upon launch. [3411731]

Transport Fever 2]: Null pointer exception occurs in the display driver. [3409614]

[Quake 2 RTX]: Image corruption occurs in the blurred (bloom effect) background. [3410802]

[Far Cry 6][DirectX 12][GeFOrce RTX 3070 Ti]: With ULTRA + DXR + HD textures set, the game crashes at 4K. [3391784]

[Detroit Become Human]: Random stuttering/freezing occurs in the game. [3389250]

[Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game crashes with TDR or the system crashes while running the game. [200766423]

[Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War]: The game randomly crashes. [3413347]

[Marvel’s Avengers Xbox Game Pass for PC version]: Game may randomly crash during gameplay [3404644]

Tenslotte zijn er nog bekende en resterende problemen in de driver, zoals met Deathloop, het afspelen en weergeven van video’s op YouTube en specifieke euvels met Nvidia Image Scaling.

496.76: Windows 10/11 issues

[Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when there is mouse movement. [3405920]

[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]

[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.

[NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to “dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]

[YouTube]: The YouTube web site randomly displays extreme contrast/gamma while idle or during video playback. [3420164]

[NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721]
Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is applied on the desktop.

[NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284]
If HDR is required to be toggled from the Microsoft Control Panel, be sure to switch to a different Image Scaling resolution. [NVIDIA Image Scaling]: After performing a clean install or over install over version 496.49, NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions do not appear in the game. [3434708]
To work around,

Disable HDR in case it’s enabled from the Microsoft Control Panel, enable Image Scaling and apply the Image Scaling resolution on the desktop, and then reboot the system.

If the previous instructions do not work, upgrade to the hotfix driver 496.84.

Voor alle informatie omtrent GeForce 496.76 kan je een blik werpen op de release notes. Via Nvidia’s officiële website kan je terecht voor de download, waaronder voor Windows 10 (64 bit) / Windows 11.