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Update your NVIDIA GeForce graphics processing unit to the latest drivers.

NVIDIA Graphics Driver (Windows 10 32-bit)Overview

The GeForce Experience is a program that complements your NVIDIA driver. GeForce was designed to do many things including video capture, screenshots, live streams, and driver updates. Download GeForce Experience through the official website. Launch the application once installed. Assimilate Scratch: The application may crash due to a kernel exception in the NVIDIA OpenGL driver. If you encounter this issue, roll back the driver to version 385.90, or disable Deep Color within the application as follows: From the startup screen choose System Settings. In the System Settings Dialog, choose the Advanced tab. Firefox.exe: Browser errors may occur or the browser may crash with NVIDIA drivers. 200301372 Kepler GPUsSteamVR: The compositor fails when starting up. 1929201 Power DVD 17: The display may go blank while playing HDR video in exclusive full-screen mode.

GeForce Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games.

Game Ready

Provides the optimal gaming experience for DiRT 4 and Nex Machina.

Application SLI Profiles

Added or updated the following SLI profiles:

• Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
• Little Nightmares
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
• Transformers Online

3D Vision Profiles

Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:

• Tekken 7 - Fair
• DiRT 4 - Not Recommended
• Nex Machina - Not Recommended
• Quake Champions - Good

Changes and Fixed Issues

• [DirectX 11 games]: On some titles, in-game V-Sync does not work if Fast Sync is selected from the NVIDIA Control Panel. Consequently, the game frame rate is not locked to the maximum refresh rate, resulting in possible tearing. [200304603]
• [Aerofly RC 7]: Corruption occurs in the game when shadows are enabled. [1921628]
• [OpenGL][Tombstone Enginer]: Driver update causes corruption in Tombstone engine games. [1915851]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX]: The secondary display remains blank after switching from Clone or Extended mode to secondary-only display mode. [200288996]

Windows 10 Issues

• [Firefox.exe]: Browser errors may occur or the browser may crash with NVIDIA drivers. [200301372]
• [Kepler GPUs][SteamVR]: The compositor fails when starting up. [1929201]
• [Power DVD 17]: The display may go blank while playing HDR video in exclusive full-screen mode. [200300818]
• [GeForce GTX 1070]: Games (Witcher 3, For Honor) do not recognize the custom refresh rates set using the NVIDIA Control Panel. [1916598]
• [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 Meier's Civilization VI][G-Sync/SLI/DirectX 12]: Black corruption appears while entering the in-game menu after skipping the cutscene. [200283322]
• [Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Tom Clancy's The Division Survival DLC]: Game crashes, pointing to ntdll.dll when changed to full-screen and to windowed full-screen. [200252894]
• [Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][ShadowPlay][For Honor]: The game silently may crash if the intro video is skipped while instant replay is on. [200247313]
• [SLI][Notebook][GeForce GTX 970M][Gears of War 4]: Level loading may hang. [1826307]
• [GeForce Experience]: Driver installation may fail when attempting to perform a driver overinstall.<br />To workaround, perform a clean installation.
• [Notebook][Pascal GPU]: The display remains blank while over installing the driver, requiring a reboot. [200273603]
• Error code 43 appears in the Device Manager after installing the driver with HDMI display connected. [200283276]
• Driver install/overinstall requires a reboot. [1757931]

Windows 7 Issues

• [GeForce GTX 1080] Battlefield 1 hangs when campaign loaded with Fast Sync enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200254350]

NVIDIA Graphics Driver (Windows 10 32-bit)Tech Specs

Nvidia Video Drivers

To take advantage of the GPU capabilities of Azure N-series VMs backed by NVIDIA GPUs, you must install NVIDIA GPU drivers. The NVIDIA GPU Driver Extension installs appropriate NVIDIA CUDA or GRID drivers on an N-series VM. Install or manage the extension using the Azure portal or tools such as Azure PowerShell or Azure Resource Manager templates. See the NVIDIA GPU Driver Extension documentation for supported operating systems and deployment steps.

If you choose to install NVIDIA GPU drivers manually, this article provides supported operating systems, drivers, and installation and verification steps. Manual driver setup information is also available for Linux VMs.

For basic specs, storage capacities, and disk details, see GPU Windows VM sizes.

Supported operating systems and drivers

NVIDIA Tesla (CUDA) drivers

NVIDIA Tesla (CUDA) drivers for NC, NCv2, NCv3, NCasT4_v3, ND, and NDv2-series VMs (optional for NV-series) are supported only on the operating systems listed in the following table. Driver download links are current at time of publication. For the latest drivers, visit the NVIDIA website.

Tip

As an alternative to manual CUDA driver installation on a Windows Server VM, you can deploy an Azure Data Science Virtual Machine image. The DSVM editions for Windows Server 2016 pre-install NVIDIA CUDA drivers, the CUDA Deep Neural Network Library, and other tools.

NVIDIA GRID drivers

Microsoft redistributes NVIDIA GRID driver installers for NV and NVv3-series VMs used as virtual workstations or for virtual applications. Install only these GRID drivers on Azure NV-series VMs, only on the operating systems listed in the following table. These drivers include licensing for GRID Virtual GPU Software in Azure. You do not need to set up a NVIDIA vGPU software license server.

The GRID drivers redistributed by Azure do not work on non-NV series VMs like NCv2, NCv3, ND, and NDv2-series VMs. The one exception is the NCas_T4_V3 VM series where the GRID drivers will enable the graphics functionalities similar to NV-series.

The NC-Series with Nvidia K80 GPUs do not support GRID/graphics applications.

Please note that the Nvidia extension will always install the latest driver. We provide links to the previous version here for customers, who have dependency on an older version.

For Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016 1607, 1709, and Windows 10(up to build 20H2):

• GRID 12.1 (461.33) (.exe)
• GRID 12.0 (461.09) (.exe)

For Windows Server 2012 R2:

• GRID 12.1 (461.33) (.exe)
• GRID 12.0 (461.09) (.exe)

For the complete list of all previous Nvidia GRID driver links please visit GitHub

Driver installation

1. Connect by Remote Desktop to each N-series VM.

2. Download, extract, and install the supported driver for your Windows operating system.

After GRID driver installation on a VM, a restart is required. After CUDA driver installation, a restart is not required.

Verify driver installation

Please note that the Nvidia Control panel is only accessible with the GRID driver installation. If you have installed CUDA drivers then the Nvidia control panel will not be visible.

You can verify driver installation in Device Manager. The following example shows successful configuration of the Tesla K80 card on an Azure NC VM.

To query the GPU device state, run the nvidia-smi command-line utility installed with the driver.

1. Open a command prompt and change to the C:Program FilesNVIDIA CorporationNVSMI directory.

2. Run nvidia-smi. If the driver is installed, you will see output similar to the following. The GPU-Util shows 0% unless you are currently running a GPU workload on the VM. Your driver version and GPU details may be different from the ones shown.

RDMA network connectivity

RDMA network connectivity can be enabled on RDMA-capable N-series VMs such as NC24r deployed in the same availability set or in a single placement group in a virtual machine scale set. The HpcVmDrivers extension must be added to install Windows network device drivers that enable RDMA connectivity. To add the VM extension to an RDMA-enabled N-series VM, use Azure PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Resource Manager.

To install the latest version 1.1 HpcVMDrivers extension on an existing RDMA-capable VM named myVM in the West US region:

For more information, see Virtual machine extensions and features for Windows.

Nvidia Video Drivers Auto Detect

The RDMA network supports Message Passing Interface (MPI) traffic for applications running with Microsoft MPI or Intel MPI 5.x.

Next steps

Nvidia Video Drivers Windows 10

• Developers building GPU-accelerated applications for the NVIDIA Tesla GPUs can also download and install the latest CUDA Toolkit. For more information, see the CUDA Installation Guide.