GeForce 381.89 WHQL Video Card Driver Released For Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

By Nathan Kirsch

NVIDIA has relased GeForce Game Ready 381.89 WHQL drivers that have been optimized for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, Heroes of the Storm 2.0, Batman: Arkham VR, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, and Wilson’s Heart. This means that the NVIDIA driver team has worked to get bug fixes completed and performance tweaks inserted for these game titles to ensure good gameplay on day one.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III comes out on April 27th and looks pretty good. The game features a 17-mission single-player campaign, an AI Skirmish mode, and online PvP multiplayer. With the Space Marines, Eldar, and Orks all hunting for the same treasure there is bound to be war.

Back to the GeForce 381.89 WHQL Drivers there are four changes/fixes listed in the release notes and they can be found below.

  • [Sniper Elite 3]: The game crashes. [1880113]
  • [Notebook][eDP panel]: Blue-screen (code 3B) occurs followe by the Recovery screen during software unbundling process. [1900432]
  • [GeForce GTX 1060]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to driver (Nvlddmkm.sys) after the system reboots from sleep mode. [1814559]
  • GPU idling voltage has increased. [1904229]

The last change got our attention as it simply states that GPU Idle voltage has been increased. Legit Reviews has reached out to NVIDIA for more details on this change to see exactly what they have done in this driver build.

Open Windows 10 issues on GeForce 381.89 WHQL drivers are as follows:

  • [GeForce Experience]: Driver installation may fail when attempting to perform a driver overinstall. To workaround, perform a clean installation.
  • [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 Meirie’s Civilization VI][G-Sync/SLI/DirectX 12]: Black corruption appears while entering the in-game menu after skipping the cutscene. [200283322]
  • [GeForce GTX Titan X][Ansel][Ghost Recon Wild lands]: With FXAA enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel, the application crashes when enabling the in-game Ansel UI. [200283194]
  • Error code 43 appears in the Device Manager after installing the driver with HDMI display connected. [200283276]
  • [Pascal][Notebook]: The display remains blank while over installing the driver, requiring a reboot. [200273603]
  • [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]
  • [GM204, ShadowPlay] For Honor silently may crash if the intro video is skipped while instant replay is on. [200247313]
  • [SLI] [GeForce GTX 970M] Level loading may hang in Gears of War 4. [1826307]
  • [367.77, WDDM 2.1] Driver install/overinstall requires a reboot. [1757931]
  • [SLI, GP104] Installer prompts for a reboot during express overinstall of 372.69 driver on 372.54. [200231806]
  • [GM204] Quantum Break window either remains blank or freezes in game scene in windowed mode. [1804910]
  • Surround Display icon disappears after rotate mode is set to portrait. [200201040] � [SLI] Street Fighter V performance drop (pause and play) observed when the game is played at 4K resolution with SLI enabled. [200172046]
  • [Luxmark 3.0] Display driver stopped responding while running benchmark LuxBall HDR (Simple Bechmark:217K triangles). [200153736]
  • [347.09, GM204] Blank screen observed on an ASUS Tiled display when system resumes from shutdown or hibernation with Fast boot option enabled from BIOS. [1591053]