Today is the day when Capcom released their anticipated action game, Resident Evil 2. With the release of any new title on PC, it is understood that players will face bugs, errors, stutters, performance issues and much more. In order to avoid that, Nvidia and AMD release a new version of drivers to increase performance in games. It’s about time for PC games to upgrade to newer driver versions to increase performance in Resident Evil 2. Here’s how you can download Resident Evil 2 optimized Nvidia driver 417.71.
Download Resident Evil 2 Optimized Nvidia Driver 417.71
The latest GeForce 417.71 WHQL driver not only optimize Resident Evil 2 but it also includes support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards as well as support for GSYNC compatible monitors. The thing about Game Ready drivers is to have the best possible gaming experience without having to face issues like micro-stuttering and random crashes. I’ve seen people posting on forum websites about stuttering and fps drops and luckily downloading the Resident Evil 2 optimized Nvidia driver 417.71 might help them fix the issues.
What’s New?
Here’s what is included in the latest Nvidia driver 417.71,
Gaming Technology
Includes support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards as well as support for GSYNC compatible monitors.
3D Vision Profiles
Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider – Not Recommended
- Darksiders 3 – Fair Software Module Versions
- nView – 149.34
- HD Audio Driver – 1.3.38.4
- NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.18.0907
- GeForce Experience – 3.16.0.140
- CUDA – 10.0
New Features
G-SYNC Compatible Support
NVIDIA G-SYNC can now be used to activate the VRR features of G-SYNC Compatible displays. G-SYNC Compatible displays have been validated by NVIDIA to not show pulsing, flickering, or other artifacts during VRR gaming.
- G-SYNC on G-SYNC Compatible displays is supported only with NVIDIA Pascal and later GPU architectures.
- Only single displays are currently supported; multiple monitors can be connected but no more than one display should have G-SYNC enabled.
Download Links
You can download the Game Ready Resident Evil 2 Optimized Nvidia driver from Nvidia’s official website or you can download from the following links provided by Guru3D down below:
- Download Windows 10 64-bit (Desktop)
- Download Windows 7 / 8.1 64-bit (Desktop)
- Download Windows 10 64-bit (Notebook)
- Download Windows 7 / 8.1 64-bit (Notebook)
GeForce Hotfix Driver 417.75
Besides the main driver itself, Nvidia also released GeForce hotfix driver version 417.75 that addresses the following:
- G-SYNC monitor may display random desktop flicker when an HDMI monitor is also connected to the same graphics card
Download Hotfix Driver 417.75 From Here
You can also download Windows 10 64-bit DCH Driver from this link. The hotfix is not necessary unless you game on G-Sync monitor and are facing the issue mentioned above.
List of Supported Cards
Here’s the list of supported graphics cards just in case you are wondering if you can download them for your GPU or not.
Supported cards:
- GeForce RTX 20 Series:
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce 2060, Titan RTX - NVIDIA TITAN Series:
NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN Z - GeForce 10 Series:
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030 - GeForce 900 Series:
GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950 - GeForce 700 Series:
GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710, GeForce GT 705 - GeForce 600 Series:
GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 635, GeForce GT 630, GeForce GT 620, GeForce GT 610, GeForce 605
What About AMD Users?
For those who are currently using AMD graphics card can head over to this article to download the latest AMD driver for better performance in Resident Evil 2.
Let us know if after download and installation of this driver helped you fix any issue related to Resident Evil 2, we will be happy to help.