NVIDIA R375.57 / R375.63 WHQL Graphics Driver Released, Vulkan API Updated

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Update (2016.10.24): NVIDIA has uploaded a new driver with version R375.63 that replaces the version R375.57. R375.63 fixes a bug introduced by R375.57 that affects Windows 10 games.

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NVIDIA has released a new set of graphics drivers for all available GeForce graphics cards. R375.57 R375.63 brings optimizations and support for Battlefield 1, Civilization VI, and Titanfall 2.

R375.63 desktop downloads

• win10 64-bit
• win10 32-bit
• win7/win8 64-bit
• win7/win8 32-bit

R375.63 notebook downloads

• win10 64-bit
• win10 32-bit
• win7/win8 64-bit
• win7/win8 32-bit

 
R375.57 is an OpenGL 4.5 driver. The number of extensions does not change compared to R372.90, there are still 390 OpenGL extensions (GL=361 and WGL=29).

In the Vulkan API side, R375.57 exposes Vulkan 1.0.24 (compared to 1.0.13 in R372.90). Here is the report from GPU Caps Viewer for a GeForce GTX 1080:

===================================[ Vulkan Capabilities ]
- Instance extensions: 4
	- VK_KHR_surface (version: 25)
	- VK_KHR_win32_surface (version: 5)
	- VK_EXT_debug_report (version: 4)
	- VK_NV_external_memory_capabilities (version: 1)
- Physical devices: 1
	- [Device 0]: GTX 1080
		- API version: 1.0.24
		- vendorID: 4318
		- deviceID: 7040
		- driver version: 1573797888
		- extensions: 7
			- VK_KHR_swapchain (version: 68)
			- VK_NV_glsl_shader (version: 1)
			- VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge (version: 1)
			- VK_NV_dedicated_allocation (version: 1)
			- VK_NV_external_memory (version: 1)
			- VK_NV_external_memory_win32 (version: 1)
			- VK_NV_win32_keyed_mutex (version: 1)
		- device limits
			- maxImageDimension1D: 32768
			- maxImageDimension2D: 32768
			- maxImageDimension3D: 16384
			- maxImageDimensionCube: 32768
			- maxImageArrayLayers: 2048
			- maxTexelBufferElements: 134217728
			- maxUniformBufferRange: 65536
			- maxStorageBufferRange: 2147483647
			- maxPushConstantsSize: 256
			- maxMemoryAllocationCount: 4096
			- maxSamplerAllocationCount: 4000
			- bufferImageGranularity: 1024
			- sparseAddressSpaceSize: 18446744073709551615
			- maxBoundDescriptorSets: 8
			- maxPerStageDescriptorSamplers: 4000
			- maxPerStageDescriptorUniformBuffers: 12
			- maxPerStageDescriptorSampledImages: 8192
			- maxPerStageDescriptorStorageImages: 8192
			- maxPerStageDescriptorInputAttachments: 8
			- maxPerStageResources: 24612
			- maxDescriptorSetSamplers: 4000
			- maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffers: 72
			- maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffersDynamic: 72
			- maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffers: 96
			- maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffersDynamic: 96
			- maxDescriptorSetSampledImages: 49152
			- maxDescriptorSetStorageImages: 49152
			- maxDescriptorSetInputAttachments: 8
			- maxVertexInputAttributes: 32
			- maxVertexInputBindings: 32
			- maxVertexInputAttributeOffset: 2047
			- maxVertexInputBindingStride: 2048
			- maxVertexOutputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationGenerationLevel: 64
			- maxTessellationPatchSize: 32
			- maxTessellationControlPerVertexInputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationControlPerVertexOutputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationControlPerPatchOutputComponents: 120
			- maxTessellationControlTotalOutputComponents: 4216
			- maxTessellationEvaluationInputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationEvaluationOutputComponents: 128
			- maxGeometryShaderInvocations: 32
			- maxGeometryInputComponents: 128
			- maxGeometryOutputComponents: 128
			- maxGeometryOutputVertices: 1024
			- maxGeometryTotalOutputComponents: 1024
			- maxFragmentInputComponents: 128
			- maxFragmentOutputAttachments: 8
			- maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments: 1
			- maxFragmentCombinedOutputResources: 16
			- maxComputeSharedMemorySize: 49152
			- maxComputeWorkGroupCount: [2147483647; 65535; 65535]
			- maxComputeWorkGroupInvocations: 1536
			- maxComputeWorkGroupSize: [1536; 1024; 64]
			- subPixelPrecisionBits: 8
			- subTexelPrecisionBits: 8
			- mipmapPrecisionBits: 8
			- maxDrawIndexedIndexValue: 4294967295
			- maxDrawIndirectCount: 4294967295
			- maxSamplerLodBias: 15.000000
			- maxSamplerAnisotropy: 16.000000
			- maxViewports: 16
			- maxViewportDimensions: [32768; 32768]
			- viewportBoundsRange: [-65536.000000 ; 65536.000000]
			- viewportSubPixelBits: 8
			- minMemoryMapAlignment: 64
			- minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment: 16
			- minUniformBufferOffsetAlignment: 256
			- minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment: 32
			- minTexelOffset: 4294967288
			- maxTexelOffset: 7
			- minTexelGatherOffset: 4294967264
			- maxTexelGatherOffset: 31
			- minInterpolationOffset: -0.500000
			- maxInterpolationOffset: 0.437500
			- subPixelInterpolationOffsetBits: 4
			- maxFramebufferWidth: 32768
			- maxFramebufferHeight: 32768
			- maxFramebufferLayers: 2048
			- framebufferColorSampleCounts: 15
			- framebufferDepthSampleCounts: 15
			- framebufferStencilSampleCounts: 31
			- framebufferNoAttachmentsSampleCounts: 15
			- maxColorAttachments: 8
			- sampledImageColorSampleCounts: 15
			- sampledImageIntegerSampleCounts: 15
			- sampledImageDepthSampleCounts: 15
			- sampledImageStencilSampleCounts: 31
			- storageImageSampleCounts: 15
			- maxSampleMaskWords: 1
			- timestampComputeAndGraphics: 1
			- timestampPeriod: 1.000000
			- maxClipDistances: 8
			- maxCullDistances: 8
			- maxCombinedClipAndCullDistances: 8
			- discreteQueuePriorities: 2
			- pointSizeRange: [1.000000 ; 189.875000]
			- lineWidthRange: [0.500000 ; 10.000000]
			- pointSizeGranularity: 0.125000
			- lineWidthGranularity: 0.125000
			- strictLines: 1
			- standardSampleLocations: 1
			- optimalBufferCopyOffsetAlignment: 1
			- optimalBufferCopyRowPitchAlignment: 1
			- nonCoherentAtomSize: 64

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