NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 617.42

Please use this thread to discuss the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver version 617.42.

Game Ready for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games and updates supporting DLSS and RTX technologies including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, STAR WARS: Galactic Racer, Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and Valor Mortis.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

  • Assassin’s Creed Shadows may crash to desktop after extended gameplay after updating to driver 616.56 [6685219]

Fixed General Bugs

  • N/A

Does anybody know why it specifically calls out MSFS 2024?

Game Ready For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 7, Featuring DLSS 4.5

Microsoft and Asobo Studio are releasing Sim Update 7 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on October 13th, adding free new National Championship Air Races for players to partake in, engine updates, and further refinements.

In September 2025, Sim Update 3 introduced support for DLSS Multi Frame Generation, adding to the already-supported DLSS Frame Generation and Super Resolution, DLAA, ray-traced shadows, and NVIDIA Reflex.

The new Sim Update 7 upgrades the entire suite of DLSS technologies to DLSS 4.5, while also introducing support for Multi Frame Generation with up to 6X multiplication. Previously, 4X Multi Frame Generation boosted 4K frame rates by an average of 4.2X, and in our testing, 6X Multi Frame Generation scales linearly, with increases of up to 6.4X.

If you don’t need performance that high, you can take advantage of the newly-added Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, an intelligent system that functions like an automatic transmission for GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. Instead of sticking to a fixed Frame Generation multiplier, it automatically shifts between different multipliers to strike the perfect balance between frame rate, image quality and responsiveness.

In other words, it only generates the frames needed to maximize your target frame rate, or the refresh rate of your display, be that 120Hz, 144Hz, 240Hz, or higher.

By continuously monitoring the gap between your GPU’s performance and your display’s maximum refresh rate, the system adapts in real-time. In graphically intense scenarios, it ‘upshifts’ and increases frame generation to bridge performance dips, ensuring your high-refresh display remains buttery smooth. Conversely, as the workload lightens, it seamlessly shifts the multiplier down to only compute what’s needed.

Additionally, the upgrade to DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution sees image quality further enhanced for all GeForce RTX pilots, making each flight even more immersive.