nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver unleashes the full power and features in nVIDIA’s desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. nVIDIA GeForce software ensures the best experience with your nVIDIA hardware. It delivers a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications.

• Incredible 3D and video performance for all of your applications.
• Rock-solid system stability, greater compatibility and reliability with nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture.
• Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security.
• Continual product performance and feature updates for the life of your nVIDIA hardware.

This nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver package supports GeForce 600, 700, 800, 900,  10 and RTX 20 series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. Also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.

Game Ready for DirectX 12 Ultimate
The new Game Ready Driver provides full support for the new DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. This includes support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR) version 1.1 as well as support for mesh
shaders, sampler feedback, and variable-rate shading (VRS).

Additionally, this driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.
New Features and Other Changes

• Supports DirectX 12 Ultimate
• Supports Vulkan 1.2
• Supports hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling.
• Supports CUDA 11.0.

GeForce Game Ready Driver

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Gaming Technology

This release supports the following APIs:

• Open Computing Language (OpenCL software) 3.0 for NVIDIA Maxwell and later GPUs
• OpenGL 4.6
• Vulkan 1.3
• DirectX 11
• DirectX 12 (Windows 10, Windows 11)

Software Module Versions

• HD Audio Driver – 1.3.39.3
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.21.0713
• GeForce Experience – 3.25.0.84
• CUDA – 11.6
• DCH NVIDIA Control Panel – 8.1.962.0

Discontinued Support

• 3D Vision. Beginning with Release 430, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports the following 3D Vision technologies and features:
  • NVIDIA 3D Stereoscopic Driver, including the 3D Vision driver and USB (emitter)
    driver
  • NVAPI-based stereo APIs for Direct3D applications.
• NVIDIA Kepler GPUs for Notebooks
  • Beginning with Release 430, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports NVIDIA GPUs for notebooks based on the Kepler architecture.
• 32-bit Operating Systems
  • Beginning with Release 396, NVIDIA is no longer releasing Game Ready drivers for 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture.

Support for OpenCL 1.2:

Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs are supported.

NVIDIA TITAN Series:

NVIDIA TITAN RTX, NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), GeForce GTX TITAN X

GeForce RTX 30 Series:

GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce RTX 20 Series:

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2060

GeForce 16 Series:

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce GTX 1650

GeForce 10 Series:

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030, GeForce GT 1010

GeForce 900 Series:

GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 700 Series:

GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745

576.02 WHQL (April 16th, 2025)

Hardware Support

• GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Game Ready

• Black Myth: Wukong’s DLSS Multi Frame Generation Upgrade
• No More Room In Hell 2’s DLSS Multi Frame Generation Update

GPU Compute

• Support for CUDA 12.9.

G-Sync Monitor Support

• Acer VG270K V4
• Acer X27U X1
• Acer X27U X2
• Acer X32 V2
• Acer X32 X
• Acer X32 X2
• Acer XB273K V4
• Acer XV270K V4
• AOC 27G42HE
• ASUS VG249QE5A
• ASUS VG279QE5A
• ASUS VG27AQM5A
• ASUS XG279CNS
• Dell AW2525HM
• Dough ES07E91
• HP OMEN27QS G2
• GIGABYTE MO27U2
• LG M5/G5/C5/CS5/B5
• Samsung G90XF

NV App Optimal Settings

• Deadlock
• Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
• Half-Life 2 with RTX
• inZOI
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• The Last of Us Part II Remastered

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• [Fortnite] random crashes during gameplay [5171520]
• [The First Berserker: Khazan] DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED Crash [5195216]
• [Star Wars Outlaws] Application will freeze after leaving the game idle for 5+ minutes [5191099]
• Game stability issues when playing games with DLSS Frame Generation + GSYNC [5144337]
• [Monster Hunter Wilds] Crash after accepting quest with DLSS-FG Enabled [5087795]
• [InZOI] Game crashes with error “GPU crashed or D3D Device Removed” [5154864]
• [Overwatch 2] Stutter when using VSYNC [5171856]
• [Hellblade 2 Senua’s Saga] Increased aliasing when using TSR [5125662]
• [Hellblade 2 Senua’s Saga] Crashing when using Smooth Motion [5209772]
• [The Last of Us Part 1] Crash when using Smooth Motion [5208799]
• Dithering/banding in some games on RTX 50-series GPUs [5121715]
• [Control] Flickering corruption in multiple areas [5118876]
• Stutter when using VSYNC [5202703][5202474]
• VSYNC in NVCP + frame generation causes issues in DLSS 4 games [5124816]
• [UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection] Artifacts on screen when collecting treasures [5158954]

Fixed General Bugs

• Stability issues when using Windows 11 24H2 [5160948]
• Bugcheck w/ PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50) when playing games with DLSS 4 multi-frame generation [5144337]
• [RTX 50 series] GPUs crashes with black screen/underflow [5160845]
• [RTX 50 series] Random Black Screen issues [5090505]
• General system stability issues [4921925]
• [RTX 50 series] System hard hang with 572.16 driver loaded [5107271]
• Compute Shader related tests are failing due to “error” [4894179]
• [HWBU][DT GB202/203][LG 27GN950 Specific]: Display blacked out when applying 120Hz refresh rate [5044229]
• PC display will not wake after extended sleep time [5131052]
• Two DP output of the RTX5090 will blue screen when trying to watch protected videos [5167145]
• Black screen issue when testing 3D mark with driver 572.02 and 572.16 [5095825]
• Primary Blank display showing blank after hot plug the display in daisy chain [4978206]
• Display shows blank screen on setting RR 165/200Hz when daisy chain is enabled. [5049227]
• Second display showing blank when we apply higher RR for second display when displays connected in daisy chain [4956573]
• Primary monitor (AOROUS FO32U2P) goes blank when we HPD/power cycle second display in Daisy chain. [5075448]
• GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs crashes with black screen when playing graphically demanding games [5098914]
• RTX 50 series displays blank screens on LG 5k2k 45GX950A-B when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode w/ HDR [5192671]
• Black screen on installing drivers and booting into Windows [5153642]
• DP2.1 – UHBR10/13.5 link rates are unstable on LGE 27GX790A-B [5080789]
• Multiple users reporting black screen issue when disable the “FCH Spread Spectrum” settings [5204493]
• [RTX 50 series] Slightly higher DPC latency may be observed on some system configuration [5168553]
• [RTX 50 series] Varjo Aero VR headset may fail to establish connection [5117518]
• Changing state of “Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area” does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
• [RTX 50 series] Display may show black screen when selecting DLDSR resolution [5144768]
• [Octanebench] Performance regression [3523803]
• [DaVinci Resolve] UI overlay in Fusion page is not displayed correctly [4974721]

Open Issues

• [GeForce RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standy can result in black screen [5204385]
• [RTX 50 series] Cyberpunk 2077 will crash when using Photo Mode to take a screenshot with path tracing enabled [5076545]
• [RTX 50 series] Red Dead Redemption 2 crashes shortly after starting a game in DX12 mode. No issue in Vulkan mode [5137042]

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