GeForce 536.67 WHQL driver

Game Ready for Portal: Prelude RTX
Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including Portal: Prelude RTX and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Further support for new titles leveraging NVIDIA DLSS 2 technology includes the launch of Remnant II. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver supports a Resizable BAR profile for Dying Light 2: Stay Human to further improve performance.

Gaming Technology
Introduces support for the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB.

Fixed Issues in Version 536.67 WHQL
Fixed Gaming Bugs
- Applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters cause games to crash
Fixed General Bugs
- Increase in DPC latency observed in Latencymon for Ampere-based GPUs

Open Issues in Version 536.67 WHQL
Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]
Some monitors may display random black screen flicker when in Display Stream Compression mode when using R530 drivers [4034096]
[Control][DX12] Cut scenes and videos show tearing and partial jitter [4084000]
Launching a DirectX game on an Alienware x17 R2 w/ GeForce RTX 3080 Ti causes the screen to turn blank after updating GPU driver to v535.98 [4029825]
GeForce RTX 4060 may not drop down to the lowest performance state while idling on some PC configuration [4186490]
[Halo Infinite] Significant performance drop is observed on Maxwell-based GPUs. [4052711]
[Battlefield 2042] Game stability can decrease when applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters. [4170804]
This driver implements a fix for creative application stability issues seen during heavy memory usage. We’ve observed some situations where this fix has resulted in performance degradation when running Stable Diffusion and DaVinci Resolve. This will be addressed in an upcoming driver release. [4172676]

GeForce 536.99 WHQL driver

Release Date: Tue 2023-08-08

Game Ready for Baldur’s Gate 3
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 2 technology including Baldur’s Gate 3, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Gord.

Fixed Gaming Bugs
[Control][DX12] Cut scenes and videos show tearing and partial jitter [4084000]
[Battlefield 2042] Game stability can decrease when applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters. [4170804]
[GeForce Experience] Game stability can decrease when applying a GeForce Experience Freestyle filter in certain games while using DLSS 3 Frame Generation [4171660]
[Dead Space] Game stability issues [4140545]
Fixed General Bugs
[Elgato Wave Link] Potential audio issues with NVIDIA Broadcast effects [3752618]

Open Issues:
[Halo Infinite] Significant performance drop is observed on Maxwell-based GPUs. [4052711]
[DaVinci Resolve] This driver implements a fix for creative application stability issues seen during heavy memory usage. We’ve observed some situations where this fix has resulted in performance degradation when running DaVinci Resolve. This will be addressed in an upcoming driver release. [4172676]
Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]
Some monitors may display random black screen flicker when in Display Stream Compression mode when using R530 drivers [4034096]
[GeForce RTX 4060] 3rd party GPU monitoring utilities reporting incorrect idle power usage [4186490]
Event Viewer logs nvlddmkm error at the end of the OCCT video ram test when memory is full [4049182]
[Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart] Game may display fluctuations in frame rate when using Reflex with DirectStorage [4212649]
[GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series] PC may randomly freeze/bugcheck when Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]

GeForce 537.13 WHQL driver

Release Date: Tue 2023-08-22

Game Ready for Starfield
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games including Starfield and the ICARUS: New Frontiers expansion.

Fixed Gaming Bugs
[Battlefield 2042] Game stability can decrease when applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters [4170804]
[Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart] Performance fluctuations due to issues between DirectStorage and NVIDIA Reflex [4212649]

Fixed General Bugs
[Vegas Pro FX] Preview not working on some notebook configurations [3752618]

Open Issues in Version 537.13 WHQL
[Halo Infinite] Significant performance drop is observed on Maxwell-based GPUs. [4052711]
[DaVinci Resolve] This driver implements a fix for creative application stability issues seen during heavy memory usage. We’ve observed some situations where this fix has resulted in performance degradation when running DaVinci Resolve. This will be addressed in an upcoming driver release. [4172676]
Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]
Some monitors may display random black screen flicker when in Display Stream Compression mode when using R530 drivers [4034096]
[GeForce RTX 4060] GPU monitoring utilities reporting incorrect idle power usage [4186490]
Event Viewer logs nvlddmkm error at the end of the OCCT video ram test when memory is full [4049182]
[GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series] PC may randomly freeze/bugcheck when Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]
Horizontal band may appear when cloning a G-SYNC display to HDMI monitor [4103923]
A new NVIDIA icon is created in the system tray each time a a user switch takes place in Windows [4251314]
[Alienware X17 R2 w/ GeForce RTX 3080 Ti] Display goes blank when DirectX game is launched while notebook is in dedicated GPU mode [4146369]

Game Ready & Studio Driver 537.42 - 2023-09-21

New feature and fixes in driver 537.42:

Game Ready - This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3.5 technology and DLSS Ray Reconstruction including Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.
Further support for new titles leveraging NVIDIA DLSS technology includes the launch of Warhaven and Witchfire which support DLSS 3, as well as the arrival of Party Animals which supports DLSS Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex technology.

Applications - The September NVIDIA Studio Driver provides optimal support for the latest new creative applications and updates. This includes DaVinci Resolve version 18.6 which features NVIDIA TensorRT acceleration as well as the latest Chaos Vantage update which introduces support for DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

Fixed Gaming Bugs
N/A

Fixed General Bugs
[Octane Render]: intersection shaders cause slowdown in performance [4164876]
[Octane Render]: inconsistent behavior and broken motion keys using TLAS with numKeys=2 [4088077]

Open Issues
[Halo Infinite] Significant performance drop is observed on Maxwell-based GPUs. [4052711]
[DaVinci Resolve] This driver implements a fix for creative application stability issues seen during heavy memory usage. We’ve observed some situations where this fix has resulted in performance degradation when running DaVinci Resolve. This will be addressed in an upcoming driver release. [4172676]

Additional Open Issues from GeForce Forums
Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]
Some monitors may display random black screen flicker when in Display Stream Compression mode when using R530 drivers [4034096]
[GeForce RTX 4060] GPU monitoring utilities reporting incorrect idle power usage [4186490]
Event Viewer logs nvlddmkm error at the end of the OCCT video ram test when memory is full [4049182]
[GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series] PC may randomly freeze/bugcheck when Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]
Horizontal band may appear when cloning a G-SYNC display to HDMI monitor [4103923]
A new NVIDIA icon is created in the system tray each time a a user switch takes place in Windows [4251314]
[Alienware X17 R2 w/ GeForce RTX 3080 Ti] Display goes blank when DirectX game is launched while notebook is in dedicated GPU mode [4146369]
[RTX 4060 Ti] Display may randomly flicker with a black bar on the top of the screen when using desktop apps [4239893]

545.84 is now out

Release Highlights​
Game Ready for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Warhammer: Vermintide 2

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Warhammer: Vermintide 2. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver introduces TensorRT acceleration for Stable Diffusion to increase performance by up to 2x.

Gaming Technology
Introduces support for RTX Video Super Resolution v1.5

Fixed General Bugs
Some monitors may display random black screen flicker when in Display Stream Compression mode [4034096]
Monitor colors are incorrect after coming back from display sleep [3420257]

GeForce 545.92 WHQL driver - 2023-10-26

Game Ready for Alan Wake 2
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3.5 technology and DLSS Ray Reconstruction including Alan Wake 2. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver supports the launch of titles supporting NVIDIA DLSS 3 technology including Ghostrunner 2

Fixed Issues in Version 545.92 WHQL

Fixed Gaming Bugs
> [VR] Desktop colors turn overexposed after closing VR app
Fixed General Bugs
> N/A

Open Issues:
[Halo Infinite] Significant performance drop is observed on Maxwell-based GPUs. [4052711]
Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]
Event Viewer logs nvlddmkm error at the end of the OCCT video ram test when memory is full [4049182]
[GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series] PC may randomly freeze/bugcheck when Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]
Horizontal band may appear when cloning a G-SYNC display to HDMI monitor [4103923]
A new NVIDIA icon is created in the system tray each time a user switch takes place in Windows [4251314]
[Alienware X17 R2 w/ GeForce RTX 3080 Ti] Display goes blank when DirectX game is launched while notebook is in dedicated GPU mode [4146369]
[RTX 4060 Ti] Display may randomly flicker with a black bar on the top of the screen when using desktop apps [4239893]
Windows Event Viewer incorrectly logs an error when NVTOPPS stops [4331318]
Windows 10 transparency effects are not displaying correctly after driver update [4335862]
Brightness levels may not get applied correctly when playing back SDR videos in Chrome while HDR is enabled form the Windows Settings [4336461] -> To be resolved in a future Chrome update. Fix is present in latest Chrome Canary build: https://www.google.com/chrome/canary/
[Halo Infinite] Increased loading times after updating to driver 545.84 [4337526]

NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix [11:55 am ET] – Share – Post a Comment

NVIDIA now offers a new version 546.08 GeForce Hotfix Windows drivers as an update for the recently released version 546.01 drivers. Along with a couple of other fixes, the new release is to clear up a problem that caused Alan Wake 2 performance to degrade over time:
GeForce Hotfix display driver version 546.08 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 546.01.

This hotfix addresses the following issue:
[Alan Wake 2] Addressing gradual stability and performance degradation over extended periods of gameplay [4334633]
Windows 10 transparency effects are not displaying correctly after driver update [4335862]
Random Bugcheck may be observed on certain systems [4343844]