NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver

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Per-game optimizations and bug fixes for GeForce desktop GPUs.

Latest 617.42 · · Windowsby NVIDIAWebsiteRSS

Release activity

Release activity — 15 releases across 15 days since Mar 2, 2026. Each cell is one day; darker means more releases that day. Nothing is recorded before Mar 2, 2026. Older weeks are hidden at this screen width.
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15 releases since Mar 2, 2026

Changelog

What changed from 616 to 617

617.42

Latest
Added 1
  • Game Ready support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, STAR WARS: Galactic Racer, Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and Valor Mortis with DLSS and RTX technologies
Fixed 1
  • Assassin's Creed Shadows crash to desktop after extended gameplay

From NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver

Game Ready for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games and updates supporting DLSS and RTX technologies including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, STAR WARS: Galactic Racer, Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and Valor Mortis. Fixed Gaming Bugs

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617.14

Added 1
  • Game Ready support for CONTROL Resonant, Gears of War: E-Day, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, and AION 2
Fixed 3
  • Judgement, Lost Judgement, and Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. may fail to launch after updating to driver 616.56
  • No picture on Samsung Odyssey G95NC monitor when connected via HDMI after updating to R615 drivers
  • Certain monitors may not wake from sleep when connected via DisplayPort after updating to R615 drivers
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616.92

Fixed 3
  • Intermittent flicker in browsers when navigating to certain websites
  • Issue where virtual displays could not be created after updating to driver 616.56
  • Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions displaying a black screen after updating to driver 616.56
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616.64

Added 2
  • Support for NBA 2K27 with DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering
  • Support for Onimusha: Way of the Sword with DLSS and RTX technologies
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616.56

Fixed 7
  • DOOM: The Dark Ages & Indiana Jones and the Great Circle frame rate may exceed V-SYNC when DLSS Frame Generation 3x or higher is used
  • Outer Worlds texture flicker may be observed while playing after updating to R595 and R610 drivers
  • ASUS Armory Crate GameVisual color profiles are not getting applied when using R590 drivers
  • Chief Architect driver crash on Geforce RTX 4000 series cards
  • Claude Desktop driver incorrectly detects application as a 3D app
  • Driver crash with 32-bit DirectX 12 apps
  • Tycho Tracker unable to create individual OpenCL buffers greater than 2GB
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610.88

Game Ready for Halo: Campaign Evolved & Gears of War: E-Day Beta

Fixed 7
  • Resolved game crashes observed on RTX 50 Series GPUs with R610 drivers in Halo: Campaign Evolved
  • Fixed intermittent long pauses that could occur after extended gameplay sessions in Path of Exile 2 DX12 mode
  • Improved gaming stability in Silent Hill F
  • Fixed game crash when exiting Strange Brigade and Zombie Army 4: Dead War if NVIDIA App In-Game Overlay is enabled
  • Improved frame pacing in certain DX11 games when Smooth Motion is used while G-SYNC is enabled
  • Fixed RTX Dynamic Vibrance being incorrectly applied to Wallpaper Engine
  • Fixed Paint.NET crashing during launch when NVIDIA Surround is enabled
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610.74

Game Ready for DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations

Added 2
  • Game Ready support for DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations
  • Game Ready support for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
Fixed 1
  • Tencent Meeting: Flickering when Smooth Motion is enabled globally
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610.62

Game Ready for Empulse

Added 1
  • Game Ready support for Empulse with DLSS and RTX technologies
Fixed 10
  • Gaming stability improvements in World of Warcraft
  • Occasional visual corruption after extended gameplay in Apex Legends
  • DLSS settings being grayed out in certain games after updating to display driver 615.47
  • Gaming stability in multi-monitor configurations when using V-SYNC with DLSS Frame Generation
  • Jittering or ghosting in some DirectX 11 games when Smooth Motion is enabled
  • Games crashing when launched with Smooth Motion enabled
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610.47

Game Ready for 007 First Light

Fixed 8
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth shadow/light flicker after driver update
  • Enshrouded missing terrain after driver update
  • Visual corruption may appear in certain games using Godot engine
  • Multimonitor gaming stability improvements when using V-SYNC
  • Adobe Lightroom Classic application stability issues
  • Autodesk Forma memory leak during camera orbit when OpenGL is used
  • Apple Studio Display XDR only displays 480p after driver update
  • Samsung The Frame using display's Game mode disables key functionality
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596.49

Game Ready for Forza Horizon 6

Fixed 2
  • Enhanced smoothness when DLSS Frame Generation is used with V-SYNC
  • Foundry Mari 7.0v2 viewport displays flickering
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596.36

Game Ready for Conan Exiles Enhanced

Added 2
  • Support for GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (12GB)
  • Support for DLSS 4.5 technology
Fixed 5
  • God of War Ragnarok: Certain textures intermittently flashing white during gameplay
  • Assassins Creed Shadows: Flickering on character model clothing
  • The Crew Motorfest: Grass and vegetation flickering
  • Blocky artifacts when playing back H.264 content with DXVA 2.0
  • Blender 5.0.1 EEVEE: Non-shader nodes connected to the material output rendered as black
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596.21

Game Ready for PRAGMATA

Added 2
  • Optimized support for DLSS 4.5 technology in games including PRAGMATA and NTE (Neverness to Everness)
  • Optimized support for DLSS 4 features in Windrose
Fixed 1
  • Fixed stutter that may be observed in some gameplay in Arknights: Endfield
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595.97

Game Ready

Fixed 3
  • Halo Infinite texture corruption on R595 drivers
  • HITMAN World of Assassination game stability issues when NVIDIA Smooth Motion is enabled
  • Game stability issues after enabling DLSS FG when Instant Replay is enabled
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595.79

Game Ready for Crimson Desert and DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

Added 1
  • Support for DLSS 4 technology in Crimson Desert and DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH
Fixed 5
  • Crimson Desert game crash when launched on R595 drivers
  • Resident Evil Requiem white glowing light and dots appearing in game when Subsurface Scattering is enabled
  • Star Citizen game client crash when launched
  • GPU voltage becoming capped on overclocked graphics cards, preventing boost to expected levels
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout when playing multi-key DRM content in browser on HDCP 1.x monitors
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595.71

Game Ready for Resident Evil Requiem

Added 2
  • Game Ready support for Resident Evil Requiem with DLSS 4 technology
  • Game Ready support for Marathon with DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex
Fixed 8
  • The Ascent: Intermittent black bar on top of screen on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs
  • Total War: THREE KINGDOMS: Green artifacts appear on GeForce RTX 50 series
  • FINAL FANTASY XII The Zodiac Age crashes with fatal error after driver update
  • Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) displays image corruption after driver update
  • Quantum Break: Performance drops significantly on Act 4 Part 1
  • HW monitoring utilities not detecting all fans on the GPU
  • One or more fans not spinning on GPUs after driver update
  • Blackmagic Design: AV1 decode crash with multiple obu in one packet
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