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.

Game Ready

• Doom Eternal Raytracing & DLSS
• LEGO Builder's Journey
• Rust DLSS
• F1 2021
• Escape from Tarkov (Reflex)

New Features

• Added support for Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1)

GeForce Experience

• One-Click HDR Screenshot Capture for All GeForce Experience Supported Games
• New Freestyle Sharpen Filter: We have added a new and improved Sharpen+ filter for Freestyle which uses depth to enhance quality
• FPS Counter: Based on your feedback, we made adjustments to the new FPS counter, to no longer show "N/A" when FPS is not available
• One-Click Automatic GPU Tuning: We have improved the user experience by adding status messages during the tuning process
• GFE Optimal Settings support
  • Blade & Soul
  • CrossFire HD
  • Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV

G-SYNC

• AOC AG274US4R6B
• AOC AG254FWG8R4
• ASUS VG28UQL1A
• LG 32GN650/32GN63T

Fixed Issues

• [World of Warcraft: Shadowlands]: Random flicker may occur in certain locations in the game [3206341]
• [SLI][GeForce GTX 980M]: The system locks with a black screen upon booting into Windows. No repro with 457.51. [3266090]
• [Surround][GeForce RTX 3090]: With Surround active, setting Bezel Correction disables Surround. [3286449]
• [Crossfire][GeForce Experience][FreeStyle]: Freestyle might not work on Crossfire after the game is updated. [200736765]
• [HDR]: Some specific HDMI displays might show some flickering in HDR mode. [200729987]
• [Steam VR game]: Stuttering and lagging occur upon launching a game while any GPU hardware monitoring tool is running in the background. [3152190]
• [NVIDIA Ampere GPU]: Colors may appear incorrect in games if sharpen Freestyle filter is used with HDR enabled. [200658208]
• Display may flicker or lose signal when launching a game on an adaptive-sync VRR monitor in multi-monitor configuration when sharing the same display mode [3314055]
• DisplayPort monitor may not wake from sleep when connected in extended mode with an HDMI 2.1 display that is powered off. [3281998]

Windows 10 Issues

• [Batman Arkham Knight]: The game crashes when turbulence smoke is enabled. [3202250]
• [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
• DPC latency is higher when color mode is set to 8-bit color compared to 10-bit color. [3316424]

Software Module Versions

• NVIDIA RTX Desktop Manager - 201.66
• HD Audio Driver - 1.3.38.60 
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software - 9.19.0218 
• GeForce Experience - 3.22.0.32 
• CUDA - 11.3

Check the release notes (pdf)