nVIDIA GeForce Driver 566.36 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

566.14 WHQL (November 12th, 2024)

Game Ready

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Fixed Gaming Bugs

DSR/DLDSR custom resolutions may not appear in certain games [4839770]
[Call of Duty MWIII] filename change preventing users from using GFE Freestyle Filters [4927183]

Fixed General Bugs

[Bluestacks/Corsair iCUE] May display higher than normal CPU usage [4895184][4893446]
When “Shader Cache size” is set to “disabled” cache files may still be created [4895217]

Open Issues