
nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver unleashes the full power and features in nVIDIA’s desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. nVIDIA GeForce software ensures the best experience with your nVIDIA hardware. It delivers a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications.
- Incredible 3D and video performance for all of your applications.
- Rock-solid system stability, greater compatibility and reliability with nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture.
- Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security.
- Continual product performance and feature updates for the life of your nVIDIA hardware.
This nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver package supports GeForce 600, 700, 800, 900, 10 and RTX 20 series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. Also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.
Game Ready for DirectX 12 Ultimate
The new Game Ready Driver provides full support for the new DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. This includes support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR) version 1.1 as well as support for mesh
shaders, sampler feedback, and variable-rate shading (VRS).
Additionally, this driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.
New Features and Other Changes
- Supports DirectX 12 Ultimate
- Supports Vulkan 1.2
- Supports hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling.
- Supports CUDA 11.0.
GeForce Game Ready Driver
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.
Gaming Technology
This release supports the following APIs:
- Open Computing Language (OpenCL software) 3.0 for NVIDIA Maxwell and later GPUs
- OpenGL 4.6
- Vulkan 1.3
- DirectX 11
- DirectX 12 (Windows 10, Windows 11)
Software Module Versions
- HD Audio Driver – 1.3.39.3
- NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.21.0713
- GeForce Experience – 3.25.0.84
- CUDA – 11.6
- DCH NVIDIA Control Panel – 8.1.962.0
Discontinued Support
- 3D Vision. Beginning with Release 430, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports the following 3D Vision technologies and features:
- NVIDIA 3D Stereoscopic Driver, including the 3D Vision driver and USB (emitter)
driver - NVAPI-based stereo APIs for Direct3D applications.
- NVIDIA 3D Stereoscopic Driver, including the 3D Vision driver and USB (emitter)
- NVIDIA Kepler GPUs for Notebooks
- Beginning with Release 430, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports NVIDIA GPUs for notebooks based on the Kepler architecture.
- 32-bit Operating Systems
- Beginning with Release 396, NVIDIA is no longer releasing Game Ready drivers for 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture.
Support for OpenCL 1.2:
Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs are supported.
Download NVIDIA 391.35/572.16 WHQL for Windows 10/11:
Download NVIDIA Notebook driver 391.355/572.16 WHQL for Windows 10/11:
Download NVIDIA 391.35/471.41 WHQL driver for Windows 7/8:
Download NVIDIA Notebook driver 391.35/471.41 WHQL for Windows 7/8: