NVIDIA has today released GeForce Game Ready 551.61 WHQL driver which brings Game Ready support for the newly released Nightingale. There’s also support for the new NVIDIA App which is available in beta. NVIDIA App is a unified control panel which combines features from GeForce Experience and other GeForce apps into a single place. Here is more information below…
By installing our new GeForce Game Ready Driver, you’ll receive the optimum experience when using NVIDIA app beta, and will unlock new AI features that add HDR to SDR games, and enhance visual clarity.
Additionally, there’s Game Ready support for Nightingale, a new PVE open-world survival crafting game that includes DLSS 3 and Reflex.
Download and install our new Game Ready Driver from the Drivers tab of the NVIDIA app, GeForce Experience or GeForce.com, and read on to learn more.
NVIDIA App Beta Available To Download Now
Whether you’re a gaming enthusiast or a content creator, the NVIDIA app simplifies the process of keeping your PC updated with the latest NVIDIA drivers, and enables quick discovery and installation of NVIDIA applications like GeForce NOW, NVIDIA Broadcast and NVIDIA Omniverse.
Featuring a unified GPU control center, the NVIDIA app allows fine-tuning of game and driver settings from a single place, while introducing a redesigned in-game overlay for convenient access to powerful gameplay recording tools, performance monitoring overlays, and game enhancing filters, including innovative new AI-powered filters for GeForce RTX users.
This initial beta release incorporates many of the top features from our existing apps, optimizes the user experience, includes an optional login to redeem bundles and rewards, and introduces new RTX capabilities to elevate your gaming and creative experiences.
By installing our new Game Ready Driver, your gaming experience can be enhanced by using the NVIDIA app’s new AI-powered Freestyle Filters. RTX HDR seamlessly adds HDR (High Dynamic Range) to SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) games, while RTX Dynamic Vibrance improves upon the NVIDIA Control Panel Digital Vibrance feature, further improving visual clarity in games.
Download the beta here, and get the full lowdown about the new NVIDIA app beta and its features in our NVIDIA app beta launch article.
Optimal Settings For New Games
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink
- Nightingale
- Pacific Drive
- Skull and Bones
Fixed Gaming Bugs
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege: Stability issues when running Vulkan API [4460050]
Fixed General Bugs
- RTX Video HDR: Tone mapping not working properly with custom HDR brightness values in Windows [4472972]
- Chrome/Edge Browsers: Poor black level quality in SDR video playback with Windows HDR setting enabled [4492243]
- NVIDIA Freestyle: Filter settings are not saved after quitting game [4472656]
- Adobe Substance 3D: Stager unable to initialize the viewport [4403960]
- Adobe Substance 3D: Vulkan version of Substance Painter cannot be launched [4425856]
Known Issues
- [Netflix] Display issues for videos when using Edge browser. Recommend using Windows Netflix application as workaround. [4388454]
- GeForce GTX 10/RTX 20 series: PC may randomly freeze when Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and NVIDIA SLI are both enabled [4009884]
The GeForce Game Ready 551.61 WHQL driver is now available to download from NVIDIA’s site here, GeForce Experience or through NVIDIA App beta.
