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 3D Stereoscopic Driver, including the 3D Vision driver and USB (emitter)
- 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
Game Ready for Quake II RTX with Vulkan Ray Tracing
Our latest Game Ready Driver provides support for the Quake II RTX v1.4.0 update which enables support for the new Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions. Now, any GPU with support for Vulkan Ray Tracing can experience Quake II RTX in all its path-traced glory.
516.40 WHQL (June 15th, 2022)
Game Ready
- Fall Guys: Free for All
- ICARUS (NVIDIA Reflex)
- Jurassic Wold Evoluion 2 (RTX)
- Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 7 (RTX)
GFE Settings Support
- Dolmen
- Evil Dead: The Game
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach
- My Time At Sandrock
- Paradise Killer
- Sniper Elite 5
- V Rising
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters
Fixed
- [Enscape] Shadows may not be rendered correctly. [3530584]
- [Advanced Optimus] Brightness settings are not getting applied correctly on certain Lenovo notebooks. [3497181]
- Club 3D CAC-1085 dongle limited to maximum resolution of 4K at 60Hz. [3542678]
Known Issues
- Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
- [GeForce RTX 3090 Ti] HP Reverb G2/Oculus Rift S/Pimax 8Kx is not detected. [3623293][3632289][3626116]
- Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled upon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot. [3624218]
- [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
- [Assassin’s Creed Origins] Game displays flicker when character is under water near a boat. [3642655]
- Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
DOWNLOAD GeForce Driver 516.40 DCH for Desktop Windows 10 64-bit
DOWNLOAD GeForce Driver 472.12 Standard for Desktop Windows 10 64-bit
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DOWNLOAD GeForce Driver 472.12 for Desktop Windows 8.1/ 8/ 7 64-bit
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DOWNLOAD GeForce Game Ready Driver 391.35 Desktop for Windows 10 32-bit
DOWNLOAD GeForce Game Ready Driver 391.35 Desktop for Windows 8.1/ 8/ 7 32-bit
DOWNLOAD GeForce Game Ready Driver 391.35 Notebook for Windows 10 32-bit
DOWNLOAD GeForce Game Ready Driver 391.35 Notebook for Windows 8.1/ 8/ 7 32-bit
DOWNLOAD nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 368.81 for Windows XP 32-bit
DOWNLOAD nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 368.81 for Windows XP 64-bit
GeForce Driver 368.11 Release Notes [PDF] for Windows XP