GeForce Game Ready Drivers deliver the best experience for your favorite games. They're finely tuned in collaboration with developers and extensively tested across thousands of hardware configurations for maximum performance and reliability.

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 one. Game Ready Drivers also allow you to optimize game settings with a single click and empower you with the latest Nvidia technologies. That's what we call Game Ready.

Game Ready vs Studio drivers?

Whether you are playing the hottest new games or working with the latest creative applications, Nvidia drivers are custom tailored to provide the best possible experience. If you are a gamer who prioritizes day of launch support for the latest games, patches, and DLCs, choose Game Ready Drivers. If you are a content creator who prioritizes reliability for creative workflows including video editing, animation, photography, graphic design, and livestreaming, choose Studio Drivers.

Every Game Ready Driver is treated with the highest standards of quality. Our drivers are tested across thousands of hardware configurations over multiple generations of GPUs, and each driver is independently WHQL-Certified by Microsoft for maximum reliability - so you can focus on gaming, not troubleshooting.

What's New:

Gaming Technology

  • Support for Global DLSS Overrides
  • NVIDIA Smooth Motion support for GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs
  • Streamlined NVIDIA Surround setup screen has been added to NVIDIA App
  • Top requested 3D settings have been brought over from the NVIDIA Control Panel
  • Project G-Assist is now available for all GeForce RTX GPUs with 6 GB or more of VRAM, including laptops.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

  • Cyberpunk 2077: Crash when using Photo Mode to take a screenshot with path tracing enabled [5076545]
  • Marvel Rivals: Negative performance impact when using 580.88 driver [5444816]
  • Forza Motorsport: Game crashes if using Smooth Motion while bringing up NVIDIA App overlay statistics [5412757]
  • Gray Zone Warfare: Game stability issues [5371781]
  • ARK: Survival Ascended: Game stability issues [5441616]

Fixed General Bugs

  • Potential memory leak when using NVENC hardware encoding [5442678]
  • Power cycling monitor can result in monitor flickering when NVIDIA App is installed [5434811]
  • NVIDIA App game filter issues after driver update [5429651]

Known Issues

  • Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  • Adobe Premiere Pro: Some system configurations can freeze during export using hardware encoding [5431822]
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
  • Strinova
  • Stygian: Outer Gods
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
  • Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks
  • Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
  • Optimal Settings
  • Honor of Kings: World: stability issues [5304344]
  • Forza Horizon 5: stability issues [5131160]
  • Indiana Jones and The Great Circle: Image corruption [5326122]

Fixed General Bugs

  • GeForce RTX 5090 FE acoustic improvements for idle and low loads [5139629]
  • Changing a setting in the "NVIDIA Control Panel" -> "Manage 3D Settings" may trigger shader disk cache rebuild [5282396]
  • Twinmotion: Bugcheck when attempting to launch [5282285]
  • Adobe Substance 3D Painter: showing viewport corruption after baking [5270020]
  • BlackmagicDesign: UI overlay in Fusion page is not displayed correctly [5237584]
  • Video playback in a web browser may show brief red/green flash corruption [5241341]
  • Videos captured with NVIDIA App may appear washed out after editing with the Windows Photos app [5

Game Ready for GeForce RTX 5060

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including F1 25 and Dune: Awakening, as well as the Full Ray Tracing update for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT.

  • [F1 23/F1 24] Game crashes at the end of a race [5240429]
  • [Diablo II Resurrected] Game displays black screen corruption when using DLSS [5264112]
  • [SCUM] Game may crash after updating to R575 drivers [5257319]
  • Cyberpunk 2077 will crash when using Photo Mode to take a screenshot with path tracing enabled [5076545]
  • EA Sports FC 25 may crash during gameplay [5251937]
  • [Forza Horizon 5] Game may crash after extended gameplay [5131160]