Some players on 10xx cards reported that they have got some flickering with the game, but I’ve not been affected by this. Also, I’ve noticed that average CPU usage went up a bit, while GPU usage went down. This might indicate a CPU bottleneck, so maybe the drivers are not slower by themselves, but they might be using more CPU power on DX11 games .

Anyone who already installed 418.81 should update for the bugfixes, as performance is pretty much unchanged. I’ve tested this new Win10 update both with the previous 418.91 driver and with the new 419.17 one, and I’ve not found any significant difference at all on any of my tested games. As with the last few drivers, unless you happen to find a specific bug or performance regression on a specific game, this one seems a solid choice for those on the 4xx Driver Branch. Unfortunately, due to the wide range of possible driver, video card and operating system combinations, hardware acceleration or 3D web brother hl-2280dw driver graphics may still not work for you in Firefox. In these instances you fix the problems by disabling hardware acceleration and WebGL.

Essentially, it’s a piece of software that allows your computer’s components to work together and be recognised by Windows. DX12 games are known for using less CPU, so The Division in DX12 mode ran without noticeable changes .

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Again, if you are still running the old 3xx drivers, and you don’t have any issue on your current games, this new driver still does not offer anything new for you. Performance wise, it’s safe to say that this driver does not change things for Pascal owners.

In the end, I cannot recommend upgrading to this driver to anyone with a Pascal card which can run the previous 417.22. But if you have already updated to the 4xx branch, this driver is pretty solid.

• Android 7.x "Nougat" launched support for Vulkan on August 22, 2016.
• On June 20, 2020, a graphics engineer revealed that he had created one after two years of work that was capable of running VkQuake3 at over 100FPS on the small computer.
• On January 15, 2020, Vulkan 1.2 was released by the Khronos Group.
• This second major update to the API integrates 23 additional commonly-used proven Vulkan extensions into the base Vulkan standard.
• On February 3, 2020, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that it was working on an open source Vulkan driver for their Raspberry Pi, a popular single board computer.
• On August 10, 2015, Google announced that future versions of Android would support Vulkan.

While the driver updates clearly had improvements in the synthetic benchmarks, in terms of gaming, the results are actually a lot more inconclusive. If you want to update your drivers manually, you can either do it through the manual option above or Device Manager or via the device’s driver website. The paid ‘Pro’ version has no limit on use, more drivers, and initiates a backup before installing new drivers, but the free version has plenty of useful features. As the name hints, this tool scans the system and identifies drivers that are past their best date and replaces them with the latest versions.