NVIDIA has released a new GeForce Hotfix Driver 445.78 for Windows based on the latest Game Ready Driver 445.75 to address an issue where DirectX 11 games may fail to launch when Image Sharpening is enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel.

GeForce Hotfix display driver version 445.78 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 445.75.

This Hotfix driver addresses the following:
• Some DirectX 11 games may fail to launch when Image Sharpening is enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel

It can be accessed here:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5009

More information about Hot fix drivers:

A GeForce driver is an incredibly complex piece of software, We have an army of software engineers constantly adding features and fixing bugs. These changes are checked into the main driver branches, which are eventually run through a massive QA process and released.

Since we have so many changes being checked in, we usually try to align driver releases with significant game or product releases. This process has served us pretty well over the years but it has one significant weakness. Sometimes a change that is important to many users might end up sitting and waiting until we are able to release the driver.

The GeForce Hotfix driver is our way to trying to get some of these fixes out to you more quickly. These drivers are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes. The fixes that make it in are based in part on your feedback in the Driver Feedback threads and partly on how realistic it is for us to quickly address them. These fixes (and many more) will be incorporated into the next official driver release, at which time the Hotfix driver will be taken down.