NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 591.44 Discussion

Please use this thread to discuss the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver version 591.44.

Release Highlights

Game Ready for Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. In addition, support for 32-bit GPU-accelerated PhysX effects has been added for select classic titles on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

  • Battlefield 6: Gaming stability issues [5582125]
  • 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]
  • Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: Corruption after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
  • Black Myth: Wukong: Lower performance in driver branches newer than R570 [5562283]
  • Monster Hunter World: Iceborne: Some particle effects may be missing on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5546598]
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 3: Gameplay becomes dim over time [5488108]
  • Madden 26: Stability issues [5535693]
  • Users running R580 branch drivers (58x.xx) or newer may observe lower performance in some games after updating to Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835 [5561605]
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Random corruption on main character’s sword corruption [5363151]

Fixed General Bugs

  • Adobe Premiere Pro: Freeze During Export Using Hardware Encoding [5431822]
  • Sophos Home Antivirus: System stability issues [5581371]
  • Green line observed while viewing videos in Chromium browser on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5535388]
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Been waiting for this driver! Have been holding off on the hotfix as I don’t want to mess anything up when ddu’ing.

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Having built a PC (first time) this year, I’m still learning about the intricacies of drivers. If it helps anyone, the NVIDIA forum posts some interesting info about their drivers, with helpful links on how to properly clear caches manually or using DDU. They also link to some more involved debugging tools for Windows and NVIDIA:

NVIDIA GForce Forum

NVIDIA official instructions on deleting shader caches

How to capture D3D DirectX logs (for those who want to dig deeper in to bug reporting…)

Windows WindDbg tool (to get more info on system crashes)

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Virtual Desktop 1.34.12 + new NVIDIA 591.44 = PROBLEMS(!)

A few minuts ago I’ve installed newest (4th.DEC.2025) NVIDIA’ drivers and Virtual Desktop can’t estabilish permanent connection to network → VR Oculus3. I use WiFi6 for PC and same Wifi6 for Oculus3. It works… worked perfect. No issues at all until NVIDIA’s 591.44
I’ve reinstalled Virtual Destop, disabled Avast protection etc. It DIDN’t solve problem.

I’ve DOWNGRADED Nvidia drivers to previous version (GeForce Game Ready Driver 581.80 | Windows 10 64-bit) and everything is working fine, so IMO 591.44 has problems with Virtual Desktop or vice versa. We have to wait for more information / solution for 591.44.

P.S. DLSS swapper do not see any newest than 310.4 / 310.4 (debug) version.

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On DISCORD’s Virtual Desktop channels we have confirmation for problems with 591.44.

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Thank you for the warning!

As I fully rely on VD for the sim you saved me from downloading and installing that update.

I will wait for either NVIDIA or VD providing an update and stay on the last Hotfix driver for now.

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Hotfix driver 581.94? https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/nvidia-geforce-hotfix-driver-581-94-discussion-thread/747578

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Yes. Running it in VR through VD without issues on SU4beta.

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Thanks for info

Oh man, before I read all this about breaking VD, I installed the update. I tried to (without using DDU first) install 581.94 and it broke Windows. Managed to load Windows in safe mode and downloaded DDU, uninstalled all Nvidia stuff and then put back in the last version that was successful for me (581.80). Either Nvidia or Virtual Desktop need to get their act together and fix this mess.

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Don’t works with VD after clean DDU installation.

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Yeah I just got it working fine with 581.80. I ran DDU in safe mode. Maybe that’s the trick.

It explicitly states it in several places within the app that it should only be used in safe mode

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Virtual Desktop is used for VR, correct?

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Getting awful gsync flicker with this new update… awful…

Edit: never mind, things settled, must have been re-accruing DX cache

Okay so I did the Nvidia app install of the new driver. Cleared caches as per usual. Loaded up Skyrim real quick and was surprised at how much smoother it was. Currently in 2020 doing a flight in the Cows DA40 and no issues to report. No stutters, no audio pops. Great driver!

Will test 24 later tonight.

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Thank you so much, I printed this all out and put in my binder. This info is priceless for some of us rookies.

Thank God for this thread and the warning.

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You should see what the freaks over on the NVIDIA forum are saying……whooo boy its a hot potato

On a reddit forum there is a post that says that apps from driver 590 onwards will have to be compiled using Video Codec SDK version 10 upwards or it will fail.

Now if this is correct then presumably, unless there are added complications, Virtual Desktop needs to be recompiled to use that. Whether or not backwards compatibility is required I do not know.

Link here https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/1pe70h5/virtual_desktop_with_newest_nvidia_drivers/

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