NVIDIA Releases GeForce Game Ready 512.59 WHQL Driver

NVIDIA have today released GeForce Game Ready 512.59 WHQL Driver. The driver brings support for new games and existing games.  Also included is support for 3 new G-Sync compatible monitors and 8 new GeForce Experience optimal settings.

Game Ready For Dune: Spice Wars
Dune is back in the spotlight, and now, 30 years after the release of the pioneering Dune II real-time strategy game from Westwood Studios, you can return to Arrakis in Funcom and Shiro Games’ Dune: Spice Wars. Based on Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, Dune: Spice Wars melds real-time strategy gameplay with tactical pausing and features found in popular Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate 4X games.

Always Game Ready For New Games & Updates
Game Ready Drivers include optimizations, enhancements and more to support the latest releases and newest title updates. In this driver, we’re bringing you support for:

• Chernobylite’s Ray Tracing Upgrade: The Farm 51’s Chernobylite recreated the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with 3D scanned photogrammetry, and inserted otherworldly elements to create a survival horror game that exited Early Access last year with support for NVIDIA DLSS. In its newest post-release update, ray-traced reflections, ray-traced translucent reflections, ray-traced mesh caustics and ray-traced water caustics have been introduced, giving players an even-better experience.
• JX3 Online’s DLSS Update: JX3 Online is a martial arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game that’s been entertaining PC gamers in China since 2009. On April 28th, JX3 Online will be updated with support for an updated version of DLSS, improving image quality for its millions of players.
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt’s Early Access Launch: Bloodhunt is a free-to-play battle royale set in Prague, which at night is consumed by a ruthless war between vampire clans. Use your supernatural powers, weapons, and wit to hunt your rivals and dominate the night. 

Support For Newly Validated G-SYNC Compatible Displays
Our newest Game Ready Driver also adds support for 3 new G-SYNC Compatible displays that deliver a baseline Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) experience that makes your gaming smoother and more enjoyable.

New Games Supported By GeForce Experience’s Optimal Settings

• Death Stranding: Director’s Cut
• Elex II
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• GRID Legends
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Martha Is Dead
• The Planet Crafter
• Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

Introducing Reflex Stats: Automatic, Easy Latency Measurement In GeForce Experience
If you’ve got GeForce Experience installed, and play Bright Memory Infinite, Fortnite, Rust, or Valorant, you can now use a new feature called NVIDIA Reflex Stats.

Hit Alt+R during gameplay to set up latency measurement, and Reflex will take care of the rest, showing you full system latency, and even total end-to-end system latency with a compatible NVIDIA Reflex mouse and monitor. Head on over to our dedicated NVIDIA Reflex article to learn more.

Plus, you learn about all the other new goings on in the world of NVIDIA Reflex, which makes games more responsive.

Fixed Issues

• Changing Digital Vibrance setting causes Event ID 14 error at startup [3544567]
• [RTX 3050] Driver may randomly timeout and recover while using Google Chrome [3567457]
• [MSI GT83VR 6RF/GT83VR 7RF/GT83 Titan 8RG] Internal notebook monitor displays black screen after driver update. External monitor works fine. [3508108]

Known Issues

• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
• [NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: With the GPU connected to an HDMI 2.1 audio/video receiver, audio may drop out when playing back Dolby Atmos. [3345965]
• Club 3D CAC-1085 dongle limited to maximum resolution of 4K at 60Hz. [3542678]
• [RTX 3080/RTX 3090] Unreal Engine 5 may randomly crash with DXGI ERROR DEVICE_REMOVED error message [3614246]

The driver can be downloaded through GeForce Experience or from the NVIDIA’s website here.