Nvidia and AMD release new drivers for Sniper Elite 4, For Honor

Both Sniper Elite 4 and For Honor released on February 14. And on the same day both the big players in the GPU market, Nvidia and AMD, released their own drivers optimized for these games.

'Game Ready' 378.66 is Nvidia's solution for the latest hot game releases. Specifically, For Honor, Sniper Elite 4 and Halo Wars 2 are the games the driver is optimized for. But that's not it; there are several bug fixes as well. These are the fixes:

*.[Surround]: Surround cannot be enabled on the XGPU.
*.[G-Sync]: With G-Sync and V-Sync both enabled, there is a long delay when switching a game from full-screen mode to windowed mode.
*.[Second Life 64-bit]: World view is tinted blue after disabling Advanced Lighting Model.
*.[The Division]: Shadows flicker after enabling PCSS.
*.[Kepler GPUs][Battlefield 1]: There is flickering in the game when using TAA.
*.[SLI][Surround][GeForce GTX 1080]: The system crashes when launching games in SLI Surround using HDMI 2.0 connections.
*.[GeForce GTX 1080][Heroes of Storm]: The game crashes when launched.
*.[GeForce 860M][Notebook]: Direct X games crash.
*.[Minecraft]: Java SE Binary crashes pointing to nvinitx.dll.
*.[GeForce GTX 980 Ti]: The driver is unable to detect multiple TV models.

You can download it from here.

As for AMD, they released Crimson 17.2.1 ReLive driver. It is optimized especially for Sniper Elite 4 and For Honor. AMD claims that this driver will give those with an RX 480 a performance boost of up to 5% in Sniper Elite 4 and up to 4% in For Honor. It also adds multi-GPU support for both the games.

The other fixes are as follows:

*.For Honor may experience an application crash when switching to fullscreen or menus in gameplay on Multi GPU configurations
*.On some Radeon GCN products DXVA H.264 encoded video may experience corruption when fast forwarding or seeking through content.
*.AMD FreeSync technology mode may fail to enable itself on some fullscreen applications.
*.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has incorrect default slider values with Radeon Chill enabled. Users can modify these values to suit the experience they want.
*.Graphics processor information may be missing from system information overlay on Radeon ReLive captured videos.
*.DayZ may experience an application crash when Radeon ReLive Instant Replay/Recording is active or the feature may not work as expected.
*.Memory clocks may become locked at low states on Radeon R9 380 series products.
*.Radeon ReLive recording in fullscreen with Windows Media Player or Power DVD may experience flickering.
*.AMD Radeon HD 7900 series products may experience shadow corruption when shadows are disabled in Civilization VI.
*.GRID Autosport may experience an application hang when enabling the advanced lighting graphics option.

You can download it from here.