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. 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 and not DCH.

Download GeForce 457.09 WHQL drivers, this new Game Ready Driver provides support for the new Watch Dogs as well as adding support for the GeForce RTX 3070. This new Game Ready Driver provides support for Watch Dogs: Legion. In addition, this driver provides optimal day-1 support for DiRT 5, Ghostrunner, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, and Xuan-Yuan Sword VII.

Read the release notes here.

New Features and Other Changes

• Added support for GeForce RTX 3070.
• NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings: “Max Q Dynamic Boost” setting renamed to “Dynamic Boost”.

Fixed Issues

• [Turing GPU][Notebook]:On some Turing-based notebooks, users may see a black window when playing back a video in a web browser. [3135055]
• [For Honor][RTX 30 series]:Game will crash to desktop when launched on GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards. [3139187]
• Random flicker may occur in multi-monitor configurations when G-SYNC is enabled. Flickering occurs on Dell S2417DG and Dell S2716DG monitors.when playing YouTube or Twitch videos at 144 Hz. [3147515]
• [Forza Motorsport 7]: The game may crash to the desktop when starting a race. [200660345]
• Users may see a black screen when launching a game on a monitor using DSC (Display Stream Compression). [200661231]
• [G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]

Known Issues

• [G-SYNC][NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture]: GPU power consumption may increase in idle mode on systems using certain higher refresh-rate G-SYNC monitors. [200667566]
• [Freestyle/Ansel]: After launching and then closing Star Wars: Squadrons, Freestyle/Ansel stops working on supported games. [3154362]
  To work around, reset the NVIDIA Control Panel global 3D settings. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings page, then select the Global Settings tab, click Restore and then click Yes at the confirmation dialog.
• [Freestyle][Vulkan apps]: With the freestyle filters applied, a blue-screen crash occurs when pressing [Alt+Tab] while running Vulkan applications. [200667477]
• [Warzone][RTX 30 series]: Users may see a drop in performance during gameplay.[3132127]
• [Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
• [Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
• YouTube: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
• [Notebook][RTX 2060]: Notebook display may flicker or turn black when Microsoft Hybrid Graphics is disabled. [3147602]
• [Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

Software Module Versions

• nView - 200.93
• HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.35
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218
• GeForce Experience - 3.20.7.70
• CUDA - 11.1
• Standard NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.940.0 
• DCH NVIDIA Control Panel - 8.1.958.0