NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 581.42 Discussion

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Please use this thread to discuss the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver version 581.42.

Release Highlights

Game Ready for Battlefield 6

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Battlefield 6 and the latest update for FBC: Firebreak.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

  • Battlefield 2042: Increased GPU Crashing when calling CDXGISwapChain::Present() [5446395]
  • Forza Horizon 4: light flickering on RTX 50 series [5404555]
  • Planet Coaster 2: crashes after driver update [5447412]
  • FPS significantly drops when using Smooth Motion with RivaTuner FPS cap [5476266]
  • R580 drivers causing stuttering in games using GODOT engine [5466820]

Fixed General Bugs

  • Adobe After Effects / Premiere Pro: crash on launch when Smooth Motion is enabled globally [5515256]
  • Adobe Premiere Pro: Some system configurations can freeze during export using hardware encoding [5431822]
  • When Video Noise Reduction is enabled the chroma is grayscale [5401959]

Open Issues

  • Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
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Hotfix 581.47

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Just to save everybody from following the link, it tells you this:

NVIDIA Article: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5721/

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 581.47 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 581.42.

This Hotfix addresses the following:

  • Games may crash if the installed game directory contains Chinese characters while Smooth Motion is enabled [5537563]

Click here to download the GeForce Hotfix display driver version 581.47 for Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64

So personally I’m not going to worry about the Hotfix.

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Can anyone confirm / deny the typical DX11 crash? Or is that fixed now? :slight_smile:

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I can’t speak for this latest driver but the previous one still had DX11 crash with MSFS2020

I’m currently still on the last NVIDIA build

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Hi everyone, works the nvidia filters again with the new driver ?