NVIDIA GeForce 361.43 WHQL Drivers Enable WDDM 2.0 on Fermi GPUs
Months ago NVIDIA promised GeForce video card owners that were using the Fermi GPU that Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) version 2.0 support would be coming in 2015. This is a big deal for many Fermi owners as they have patiently been waiting for mixed WDDM support and the other Windows 10 features. Windows 10 includes WDDM 2.0, which is designed to dramatically reduce workload on the kernel-mode driver for GPUs that support virtual memory addressing, to allow multithreading parallelism in the user-mode driver and result in lower CPU utilization.
The new NVIDIA GeForce 361.43 WHQL Drivers along with the Windows 10 November Update will now allow Fermi GPU owners to use WDDM 2.0 in single GPU configurations. For mixed-GPU configurations (Fermi being used in the same system with Kepler or Maxwell GPUs) you’ll be able to use WDDM 2.0 for the very first time. For those that are running Fermi GPUs in SLI, you are still stuck on WDDM 1.3.
You can download GeForce 361.43 WHQL drivers for Windows 10 64-bit here and for Windows Vista/7/8.1 64-bit here.
Other than Fermi WDDM 2.0 support, the GeForce 361.43 WHQL drivers has support for GameWorks VR 1.1 including VR SLI support for OpenGL applications and support for the latest Oculus SDK. If you want the latest drivers for the best VR gaming experience, look no further.
The following SLI profiles have also been updated:
- Bless – DirectX 9 SLI profile added
- DayZ – SLI AA and NVIDIA Control Panel AA enhance disabled
- Dungeon Defenders 2 – DirectX 9 SLI profile added
- Elite Dangerous – 64-bit EXE added
- Hard West – DirectX 11 SLI profile added