NVIDIA Releases GeForce Game Ready 526.98 WHQL Driver

NVIDIA has today released GeForce Game Ready 526.98 WHQL driver. The driver brings support for the GeForce RTX 4080 which has been released today. It also adds DLSS 3 support for V-Sync on G-Sync and G-Sync compatible monitors and TVs. There’s also Game Ready support for Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide and WRC Generations.

The GeForce RTX 4080 is available now from NVIDIA and top add-in card providers ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, GALAX, GIGABYTE, INNO3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, PNY and ZOTAC, as well as from gaming system integrators and builders worldwide.

Boasting our 3rd generation RTX architecture, the GeForce RTX 4080 is beyond fast, delivering even-faster performance in rasterized, ray-traced and AI-powered games and apps.

With its many technological enhancements, the GeForce RTX 4080 is up to twice as fast as the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, and even faster still in fully ray-traced games.

The GeForce RTX 4080 includes all the same advancements, enhancements, and innovations as the GeForce RTX 4090, meaning you can multiply frame rates with NVIDIA DLSS 3, encode video up to 2X faster with dual 8th gen NVIDIA Encoders, stream with 40% better efficiency using AV1, and chew through creative workloads in up to half the time, helping you get more done, faster.

To get started with a newly-purchased GeForce RTX 4080, download and install our new Game Ready Driver, and you’ll be ready to enhance your games and accelerate your workloads with all of this tech.

Game Ready

• Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• WRC Generations
• Monster Hunter Rise
• World of Warcraft: Dragon Flight

Official DLSS 3 Support For VSYNC On G-SYNC and G-SYNC Compatible Monitors & TVs
Our new Game Ready Driver offers official DLSS 3 support for VSYNC on G-SYNC and G-SYNC Compatible monitors and TVs, so gamers can enjoy a responsive, tear-free experience when playing or capturing their game.

DLSS 3 uses its NVIDIA Reflex technology to limit the output frame rate to slightly below the refresh rate of the G-SYNC monitor. This enables tear-free gaming while avoiding large back pressure and high latency caused by VSYNC. To enable this feature:

1. Enable G-SYNC: NVIDIA Control Panel –> Display –> Setup G-SYNC
2. Turn VSYNC On: NVIDIA Control Panel –> 3D Settings –> Manage 3D Settings
   • Use the Global Settings tab to apply the options in every game, or on a per-game basis in the Program Settings tab

3. Turn on DLSS Frame Generation in a supported game

Stay tuned for more DLSS 3 updates and improvements in the future.

NVIDIA RTX IO Support For Microsoft DirectStorage 1.1 & Vulkan Extension
NVIDIA RTX IO, a suite of technologies that enable rapid GPU-based loading and game asset decompression, is now supported in our new Game Ready Driver for DirectStorage 1.1 and RTX IO Vulkan Extensions on GeForce RTX GPUs.

RTX IO employs an NVIDIA-developed, open source lossless compression technology called GDeflate which delivers near instantaneous game loading, lower CPU utilization by offloading compression work to RTX GPUs, and highly compressed assets for smaller game install package sizes.

HDR10+ GAMING Standard Now Supported On GeForce Graphics Cards & Laptops
With the launch of our new Game Ready Driver, the HDR10+ GAMING standard is now supported on GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX 16 Series graphics cards and laptops. Using our new NVAPI v2 HDR instructions, developers can add HDR10+ to their games, enabling compatible displays to take advantage of more accurate color and brightness reproduction.

HDR10+ is especially beneficial as games and other content can query HDR luminance and color information directly from the display to perform dynamic tone mapping that is optimal for each display’s HDR capabilities, helping to faithfully reproduce the artistic intent of content creators, and consistently deliver great HDR experiences for GeForce gamers.

HDR10+ GAMING is a royalty-free standard supported on 2022 TVs and HDR gaming monitors from Samsung, and on TVs from Amazon, Panasonic, TCL, Vizio, and other manufacturers. Check manufacturers’ websites for further information on display compatibility.

Support For Newly Validated G-SYNC Compatible Displays

New AI Tools & Resources For Students On GeForce RTX
In order to prepare for careers, students studying popular STEM disciplines like computer science, data science, information sciences, economics, and related fields need access to the same technology that is used by research and industry. And with today’s Game Ready Driver, it gets easier than ever for students to learn these in-demand skills, all with GeForce RTX.

The new Game Ready driver includes support for the latest CUDA release, CUDA 12, which powers NVIDIA’s world-leading AI software development platform. As part of this platform, we’re announcing support for a core software package and a key learning resource. These were previously only available on Linux, but now come to Windows 11 running on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):

• NVIDIA RAPIDS – NVIDIA’s open-source software libraries and APIs for GPU accelerated data science, including data analytics, graph analytics, geospatial analytics, signal analytics and traditional machine learning. RAPIDS is based on the popular PyData stack.
• Learning Deep Learning – Fundamental training content from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) that students and learners can use to augment or direct their learning of these powerful techniques.

Bringing this technology to Windows 11 PCs powered by GeForce RTX significantly lowers the bar for students to take advantage of it, and gives students more options for how and where to study.

New Games Supported By GeForce Experience’s Optimal Settings

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• Dakar Desert Rally
• Diablo Immortal
• Marauders
• PC Building Simulator 2
• UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection

Fixed Issues

• G-SYNC logo is not displayed in the LG OLED TV menu when connected to GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs [3849595]
• Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection may crash when launched on a GeForce GTX 10 series GPU [3841379]
• [QNIX QX2710/Fujitsu Siemens SL23T-1/Dell UP2715K/ HP Z27q] Unable to select the native resolution of certain monitors from the Windows display settings [3833829][3833632][3689061]
• [Daz Studio] Application crashes after updating to latest driver when trying to run simulation [3838022]
• Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) service may report significantly higher GPU usage on certain PC configurations [3830387/3739997]
• Maxon – Cinema4D + Redshift3D vidmemory allocations cause TDR or Driver Crash [3659104]

Known Issues

• Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
• [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
• Older versions of Minecraft Java Edition show corruption on screen [3870232]
• MSI Afterburner is not prioritizing GPU temp limit over power when selected in app [3858911]
• [RTX 40 series] Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition may show random screen flash during gameplay [3793355]
• [GeForce RTX 4090] Watch Dogs 2 may display flickering when staring at the sky [3858016]
• Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]

You can download GeForce Game Ready 526.98 WHQL driver from NVIDIA’s site here or through GeForce Experience