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).
Download GeForce 452.55 WHQL drivers, these drivers provide support provides support for NVIDIA Reflex in the blockbuster titles, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone, as well as offers the best experience in Star Wars: Squadrons. The new Game Ready Driver also improves stability in certain games on RTX 30 Series GPUs.
Software modules
- nView - 200.93
- HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.35
- NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218
- GeForce Experience - 3.20.4.14
- CUDA - 11.1
- Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0
- DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.958.0
- [Omniverse 2020.2.4496]: Corruption occurs after switching from RTX Real-Time to RTX PathTraced renderer. [200649160]
- [Vulkan games]: The GeForce Experience> Performance > Render Latency setting sometimes sticks at 0 on Vulkan games. [3129618]
- Multiple G-SYNC Compatible monitors were removed from the G-SYNC Compatible list in the driver. [3130059]
- There is a slight increase in the Windows Event Log CPU utilization. [200659659]
- NVIDIA Container service may crash upon resume from system sleep /hibernate mode. [200658281]
- [Notebook]: Performance Power Mode cannot be set from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200657525]
- Windows 7 Only [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
- Windows 10 Only [World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
- Windows 10 Only [Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
- Windows 10 Only [Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
- Windows 10 Only [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
- Windows 10 Only [Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328] To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
- Windows 10 Only [Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884] You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See "Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store" on page 21 for more information.
- Windows 10 Only [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
- Windows 10 Only [G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]
- Windows 10 Only [GeForce RTX 3080/3090]: Samsung G9 49" display goes black at 240 Hz. [3129363]
- Windows 10 Only [Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
- Windows 10 Only [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
