{"id":45633,"date":"2018-10-05T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T06:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=45633"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:48:11","slug":"download-nvidia-geforce-416-16-whql-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/download-nvidia-geforce-416-16-whql-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Download Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL Drivers, Supports for Win 10 October 2018 and DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL Drivers is out now for download showing support for Windows 10 latest October update. The update also includes Nvidia&#8217;s Ray Tracing technology for DirectX (DRX).<\/p>\n<h2>Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL Drivers for Windows 10:<\/h2>\n<p>Nvidia has just released their 416.16 WHQL drivers. These drivers will provide public release of DirectX Ray Tracing to improve performance with RTX GPUs along with the support for Windows 10 October 2018 update.<\/p>\n<p>These drivers will improve performances in RTX supported games i.e Shadow of the tomb raider and Battlefield V, although there only a few such games but it is imminent that there will be alot more games with Ray Tracing support in the future.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of bug fixes and SLI profile updates as listed below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"yklcuq-10 hpxQMr\">Game Ready<\/h3>\n<p>Following are the new features which are introduced in the new driver:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added support for Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Redstone 5)<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA Control Panel (3D Settings)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SLI\/3D Profile Updates:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Basingstoke &#8211; AFR profile added<\/li>\n<li>Battlefield V &#8211; AFR re-enabled<\/li>\n<li>Divinity: Original Sin II &#8211; AFR profile added<\/li>\n<li>Immortal: Unchained &#8211; AFR profile added<\/li>\n<li>Jurassic World Evolution &#8211; AFR profile added<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix Point &#8211; AFR profile added<\/li>\n<li>Seven: The Days Long Gone &#8211; AFR profile added<\/li>\n<li>Added or updated the following 3D Vision profiles:\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Elder Scrolls: Online &#8211; Good<\/li>\n<li>Assassin\u2019s Creed: Odyssey &#8211; Not recommended<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Discontinued Support:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>32-bit Operating Systems<br \/>\nBeginning with Release 396, NVIDIA is no longer releasing Game Ready drivers for<br \/>\n32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0NVIDIA Fermi GPUs<br \/>\nBeginning with Release 396, the NVIDIA Game Ready driver no longer supports<br \/>\nNVIDIA GPUs based on the Fermi architecture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read further release notes about existing support and other different details from this\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/us.download.nvidia.com\/Windows\/416.16\/416.16-win10-win8-win7-desktop-release-notes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Download:<\/h3>\n<p>Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL drivers are 519.06 MB in size and you can download them from this<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/download\/driverResults.aspx\/138567\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\"> link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL Drivers is out now for download showing support for Windows 10 latest October update. The update also includes Nvidia&#8217;s Ray Tracing technology for DirectX (DRX). Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL Drivers for Windows 10: Nvidia has just released their 416.16 WHQL drivers. These drivers will provide public release of DirectX Ray Tracing to improve performance with RTX GPUs along with the support for Windows 10 October 2018 update. These drivers will improve performances in RTX supported games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":45654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[1262,750,4861,529,2308,1261],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Download Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL Drivers, Supports for Win 10 October 2018 and DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nvidia Geforce 416.16 WHQL Drivers for Windows now supports Windows 10 October Update 2018 and DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/download-nvidia-geforce-416-16-whql-drivers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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