Tuesday, October 26th 2021

NVIDIA Releases GeForce 496.49 Game Ready Drivers

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NVIDIA today released the latest version of GeForce Game Ready drivers. Version 496.49 WHQL comes with optimization for "Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy," including support for DLSS. It also features optimization for "Age of Empires IV," "Battlefield 2042" (Early Access), "Call of Duty Vanguard," "Chivalry 2," "GTA Definitive Edition Trilogy," "Forza Horizon 5," "Jurassic World Evolution," and "Riders Republic." The drivers also fix certain legacy issues with "DOOM 3: BFG Edition," and "Tom Clancy's The Division 2." A flickering issue noticed at 1080p on LG OLED C1 series monitors, has been fixed. The drivers also add G-SYNC support for several new monitors, and GeForce Experience optimizations. Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 496.49 WHQL
Game Ready
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Age of Empires IV
  • Battlefield 2042 Early Access
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard
  • Chivalry 2
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
  • Jurassic World Evolution 2
  • Riders Republic
GeForce Experience Settings Optimization
  • Crysis 2 Remastered
  • Crysis 3 Remastered
  • Gas Station Simulator
  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Qian Nv You Hun
  • Sword and Fairy 7
G-Sync Monitors
  • AOC 24G2W1G4
  • AOC AG274QS3R1B+
  • ASUS ROG XG27AQM
  • ASUS VG32AQ1LA
  • ASUS XG249CM
  • MSI MPG321QRF-QD
Fixed Issues in this Release
  • [Doom 3: BFG Edition]: Visual corruption occurs in the game. [3405146]
  • [Tom Clancy's The Division 2]: Flickering and visual corruption may appear after extended gameplay. [3369607]
  • [LG OLED C1 series]: The display may show random black screen flicker at 1080p. [3404999]
Known Issues
  • [Red Dead Redemption 2][Vulkan]: The game may randomly crash during gameplay. [3405911]
  • [WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship/WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship]: The games crash on launch. [3409320/3409312]
  • [Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint]: Textures in the game may flicker. [3410593]
  • [Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when there is mouse movement. [3405920]
  • [Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
  • If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
  • [YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
  • Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
  • [HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
  • To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
  • [NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to "dGPU", the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]

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34 Comments on NVIDIA Releases GeForce 496.49 Game Ready Drivers

#26
pf100
Windows 11 22000.282
Graphics driver GeForce Game Ready Driver 496.49 and 496.13 both have same problem (but no problem with 472.12 and earlier standard non-DCH drivers)
Crash is consistent every time resolution is changed in Horizon Zero Dawn.
Cyberpunk 2077 random crashing.
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#27
LifeOnMars
No crashes here at all with a Ryzen 3600 and 3060 Ti on both those drivers and both those games. Maybe check system stability or overclocks?
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#28
R-T-B
lexluthermiester472.12 is the final Windows 7 driver set Nvidia will release.

Speaking of, Is anyone else seeing the following?

I was about to download laptop drivers and this popped up.
Does it to me semiregularly. Fun.
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#29
lexluthermiester
arni-gxbut, i never buy that pc games, so do i must install that new nvidia driver hotfix, today ??
No. The old saying rings true for drivers: "If it's not broken, don't fix it." Never update drivers until you have a need/reason to.
R-T-BDoes it to me semiregularly. Fun.
Yeah it was like that for an hour or so.
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#30
pf100
LifeOnMarsNo crashes here at all with a Ryzen 3600 and 3060 Ti on both those drivers and both those games. Maybe check system stability or overclocks?
I'm running an undervolted and overclocked gpu, and I have the same cpu and gpu that you have, with the same overclock I've been using for a year now that is still stable with previous drivers. I understand drivers can change instructions and make optimizations that can make a previously stable overclock unstable, so I guess I'll just stay with 472.12 until there's a compelling reason to upgrade before I'll lower my clock speeds.
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#31
LifeOnMars
pf100I'm running an undervolted and overclocked gpu, and I have the same cpu and gpu that you have, with the same overclock I've been using for a year now that is still stable with previous drivers. I understand drivers can change instructions and make optimizations that can make a previously stable overclock unstable, so I guess I'll just stay with 472.12 until there's a compelling reason to upgrade before I'll lower my clock speeds.
That was my point, I'm running the same hardware and no issues. I'm sure it's probably an undetectable conflict for whatever reason but if there is no reason for you to upgrade anyway then I guess it's no issue.
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#33
arni-gx
StefanMAforementioned hotfix 496.61 has been "updated".
international.download.nvidia.com/Windows/496.61hf/496.61-desktop-notebook-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch.hf_a.exe

This "update" removes support for
  • NVIDIA_DEV.1FF0 = "NVIDIA T1000 8GB"
  • NVIDIA_DEV.1FF2 = "NVIDIA T400 4GB"
  • NVIDIA_DEV.2571 = "NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB"
Well..... if there is a new update to fix in the nvidia driver hotfix....... why, they are not change the number ?? become, something like..... v496.63, v496.65, etc......
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#34
StefanM
arni-gxWell..... if there is a new update to fix in the nvidia driver hotfix....... why, they are not change the number ?? become, something like..... v496.63, v496.65, etc......
Because there is no change in the code.
They just want to keep these new GPU's secret until they are announced (GTC next week?). Well, too late...
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