GeForce 551.61 Game Ready / Studio / Quadro

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Game Ready for Nightingale

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including Nightingale. In addition, this driver supports the beta release of NVIDIA App, which unifies GeForce Experience and the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege: Stability issues when running Vulkan API [4460050]

Fixed General Bugs

• RTX Video HDR: Tone mapping not working properly with custom HDR brightness values in Windows [4472972]
• Chrome/Edge Browsers: Poor black level quality in SDR video playback with Windows HDR setting enabled [4492243]
• NVIDIA Freestyle: Filter settings are not saved after quitting game [4472656]
• Adobe Substance 3D: Stager unable to initialize the viewport [4403960]
• Adobe Substance 3D: Vulkan version of Substance Painter cannot be launched [4425856]

Learn more in NVIDIA's Game Ready Driver article here.

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The February NVIDIA Studio Driver provides optimal support for the latest new creative applications and updates including Adobe Premiere Pro's new AI-accelerated Enhance Speech feature, which removes unwanted noise and improve the sound quality of dialogue. In addition, this Studio Driver supports the beta release of NVIDIA App, which unifies GeForce Experience, RTX Experience, and the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Fixed Application Bugs

• Adobe Substance 3D: Stager unable to initialize the viewport [4403960]
• Adobe Substance 3D: Vulkan version of Substance Painter cannot be launched [4425856]

Fixed General Bugs

• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege: Stability issues when running Vulkan API [4460050]
• RTX Video HDR: Tone mapping not working properly with custom HDR brightness values in Windows [4472972]
• Chrome/Edge Browsers: Poor black level quality in SDR video playback with Windows HDR setting enabled [4492243]
• NVIDIA Freestyle: Filter settings are not saved after quitting game [4472656]

Learn more about these new releases in NVIDIA's February Studio Blog here

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New Features in Quadro Version R550 U3

• New product support: NVIDIA T400E
• Security updates - see Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – February 2024, which is posted shortly after the release date of this software and will be listed on the NVIDIA Product Security page
• Version 551.61 incorporates the latest bug fixes and driver component enhancements to improve performance

Fixed Issues in Version R550 U3

• [Adobe] - Substance 3D Stager unable to initialize the viewport
• [Adobe] - Vulcan version of Substance Painter fails to launch

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Branch progression:
551.63    ?
#240221   r551_40-13
551.61    r551_40-11
551.52    r551_06-24
551.46    r551_06-21
551.32    r551_06-17
551.31    r551_06-16
551.26    r550_00-120
551.23    r551_06-14
551.22    Press driver 
551.20    NGX
551.15    Press driver
550.54.14 r551_40-170
550.54.13 Fabric Manager
550.54.10 ?
550.40.07 r551_06-132
550.40.06 ?
550.09    bugfix_main-18466

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Open Issues Updated:

• [Netflix] Display issues for videos when using Edge browser. Recommend using Windows Netflix application as workaround. [4388454]
• GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series: PC may randomly freeze when Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]
• Error when trying to use NVENC on GeForce GTX 1630/GeForce GTX 1650/GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GPUs [4511046]

Also: Nvidia shadowplay bugged out

"This is a bug in our latest driver which affects GeForce GTX 1650/GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GPUs. Please roll back to our previous driver 551.52. Our next Game Ready Driver will have a fix for this."