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

572.16 WHQL (January 30th, 2025)

New Features

• Adds support for GeForce RTX 5090
• Adds support for GeForce RTX 5080
• Adds support for DLSS 4
• Adds DLSS overrides to 75 games and applications

NVIDIA App

• RTX Video Super Resolution optimizations and enhancements, new multiple display settings, Advanced Optimus support

DLSS 4 support

• Alan Wake 2
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Star Wars Outlaws

NVIDIA Smooth Motion

• A new driver-based AI model delivers smoother gameplay by inferring an additional frame between two rendered frames on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs

Game Ready

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

G-Sync Monitors

• Alienware AW2725Q
• AOC 24G40E
• AOC 25G4S
• AOC Q27G40E
• AOC Q27G4S
• AOC Q27G4ZD
• ASUS VG27UQ1A
• HP OMEN 32x
• I-O Data GD242UD
• LG 27G850A G
• LG 27GX790A
• MSI MAG321CUP
• MSI MPG272UX OLED
• MSI MPG321UX
• MSI MPG321CURX
• MSI MPG322URX
• MSI MPG341CX
• MSI MPG491CQPX
• Philips 27M2N6500

GFE / NVApp Optimal Settings

• DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
• Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
• Marvel Rivals
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Path of Exile 2
• SUPERVIVE

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Certain G-SYNC Compatible monitors may display flickering when game FPS drops below 60FPS [5003305]
• [G-SYNC] Indiana Jones and the Great Circle may display micro-stutters when Vertical Sync is disabled [5015165]
• Improved stability for Ubisoft games using the Snowdrop engine [4914325]

Fixed General Bugs

• [Evernote/QQ/Asus Armoury Crate] displays higher than normal CPU usage [4730911]
• Motion blur renders incorrectly in some more cases in Blender Cycles [4912221]
• [KeyShot2024] TDR on loading the scene Camera Keyframe Animation [4909719]

DOWNLOAD GeForce Driver 572.16 DCH 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