nVIDIA GeForce Driver 516.94 WHQL

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

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.

516.94 WHQL (August 9th, 2022)

Game Ready for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered which includes support for the latest gaming technologies including NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA DLAA, NVIDIA HBAO+, and upgraded ray tracing effects. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest releases and updates including Madden NFL 23 and the beta for SUPER PEOPLE.

Fixed Issues

[Apex Legends] Improves gameplay stability. [3661210]
[Red Dead Redemption 2] Performance improvement when using DLSS is lower compared to previous drivers. [3700239]
[Overwatch] Game may freeze on launching a match. [3696921]
[MSI GE66 Raider 10UG/MSI GE76 Raider 10UH] Windows brightness setting does not work when notebook is in dedicated GPU mode. [3693207] [3693211]
[Chivalry 2] Toggling DLSS preset may cause gameplay to shimmer or show black rectangle. [3692024]
[Dungeons 3] Game will crash on startup. [3691274]
[Destiny 2] Game may randomly freeze after launching game or during gameplay. [3685638]
[Prepar3D] Light sources display flashing black boxes. [3684206]
[Xbox Application] Windowed G-SYNC engages and cause stutter/ sluggish performance in Xbox app. [3674419]
[NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: With the GPU connected to an HDMI 2.1 audio/video receiver, audio may drop out when playing back Dolby Atmos. [3345965]

Open Issues

[RTX 30 series] PC monitor may not wake from display sleep when GPU is also connected to an HDMI 2.1 TV, and the TV is powered off. [3645633]
Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
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]
Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
[RTX 30 series] Lower performance in Minecraft Java Edition. [3702953]
External display may not be detected when connected via USB-C on certain Razer notebooks. [3690673]
[Forza Horizon 5] Rainbow like artifacts in game after driver update. [3685123]

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GeForce Driver 368.11 Release Notes [PDF] for Windows XP