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

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLSS 4
• Avowed
• Wuthering Waves DLSS Frame Generation
• Civilization VII

G-SYNC Monitor support

• AOC 27G4H
• AOC 25G4SXU
• AOC AG275QZM
• AOC Q24G4
• Philips 27M2N5500L

NVIDIA App optimal settings

• Avowed
• FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VII

572.70 WHQL (March 5th, 2025)

Game Ready

• Naraka Bladepoint DLSS 4
• Monster Hunter Wilds

G-Sync Monitor Support

• Acer XV272K V5
• AOC 24G41E
• AOC 24G4H
• AOC AG276FK
• AOC AG276QSD
• AOC AG325QZ
• AOC AG326UD
• AOC AG346UCD
• AOC PD34
• AOC Q25G4S
• AOC Q27G2SXE
• AOC Q27G4 D
• AOC Q27G42XE
• AOC Q27G4XM
• ASUS XG258QMG
• ASUS XG27UCDM
• ASUS XG27UCDMG
• Dell 3425DW
• LG 32GX870A
• LG 34GX900A
• LG 34GX90SA
• LG 39GX90SA
• LG 45GX950A
• LG 45GX90SA
• Philips 24M2N3200L
• Philips 25M2N5500U
• Philips 27M2N3200F
• Philips 27M2N5500P
• Philips 27M2N5500LQ

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• [SteamVR] Some apps may display stutter on GeForce RTX 50 series [5088118]

Fixed General Bugs

• [Adobe Substance 3D Sampler] Crashing at launch with R570 branch drivers [5083712]
• [Adobe Substance 3D Painter] Texture corruption in baking results from GPU raytracing [5091781]
• [VRay 6] Unexpected Low Performance on CUDA Vpath Tests for Blackwell GPUs [4915763]
• [GeForce RTX 50 series] Various black screen issues [5088957] [5100062] [5089089]
• Audio issues when GPU is connected via DisplayPort 1.4 w/ DSC at very high refresh rates [5104848]
• Applications may display slight image corruption on pixelated 2D patterns [5071565]

Known Issues

• Changing state of “Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area” does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
• PC may bugcheck IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL 0xa during gameplay with HDR enabled [5091576]

DOWNLOAD GeForce Driver 572.70 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

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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