Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. 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 optimized for the best gameplay on day-1. We have a discussion thread open on this driver here in our Nvidia driver discussion forums.

We also offer the DCH download. For those that wonder, the DCH driver is a Microsoft DCH (Declarative Componentized Hardware supported apps) driver and refers to a new Windows 10 driver package preinstalled by OEMS implementing the Microsoft Universal Driver paradigm. While the base core component files remain the same, the way DCH drivers are packaged differs from previous Legacy (Standard) drivers. We recommend the normal driver (not DCH).

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. 

This new Game Ready Driver provides support for Fortnite's dramatic new update which adds ray-traced effects, NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and a custom RTX map. In addition, this release also provides optimal day-1 support for Halo 3: ODST and Mafia: The Definitive Edition.

• Includes support for GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 GPUs
• GeForce Experience Automatic Performance Tuning for GeForce RTX 30-series and RTX 20-series
• GeForce Experience in-game performance monitoring for GeForce GTX 600 series and above
• ShadowPlay gameplay recording now supports HD on GTX 900-series and above (RTX 3090can capture 8K 30fps HDR)
• NVIDIA Broadcast app with AI-powered noise removal and virtual background
• 5 New G-SYNC Compatible Monitors

Fixed Issues in this Release

• [Batman Arkham Knight]: Enabling Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling on PhysX games results in lower frame rate.[2988376]
• [Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: The game may intermittently see a drop in frame rate whenray tracing is enabled. [3050468]
• [Detroit: Become Human]: The game may crash. [3037846]
• [Forza Horizon 4]: Stuttering occurs in the game after racing a few laps. [3101001]
• [Horizon Zero Dawn The Complete Edition]: Flickering and texture corruption occurs in game after setting Anisotropic Filtering to 16x from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200638389]
• [madVR][MPC-HC]: Various HDR issues occur when using the madVR renderer with MPC-HC.[3038381]
• [Minecraft Java Edition;]: The game may crash when launched with XSplit Broadcaster running in the background. [3052464]
• [World of Warcraft]: Objects randomly flicker. [3101638]
• Video playback on the secondary display lags/freezes while playing a game on the primary display if Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling is enabled [200586262]
• [Notebook]: Display is not detected when connected to Thunderbolt 3 port on HP Spectre x360- 15t-df100 Notebook. [3087076]
• [Notebook][NVIDIA Control Panel]:With Clone mode set, only the Developer pages are visible in the NVIDIA Control Panel after hot-plugging a DisplayPort/HDMI Freesync display.[200637570]
• [Notebook]: When a game is played on the primary display and a YouTube video is played onthe extended display, viudeo playback is sluggish and stutters. [200586262]
• [Pascal GPU][Marvel's Avengers]: The gamemay crash when switch ing windows [Alt+Tab] while the game is running. [3101682]

Open Issues in this Release

• None listed