NVIDIA just released the GeForce 522.25 WHQL Game Ready drivers. These are the first official drivers with support for the new GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" graphics card, and the CUDA 11.8 compute language. The drivers also fix a handful of issues. Lower performance observed in "Teardown" when MSI Afterburner overlay is used; this has been fixed. Texture corruption noticed in "Tiny Tina's Wonderlands" after extended gameplay, has been fixed. Unreal Engine 5.1 crashing when enabling path-tracing in some drivers has been fixed. Game optimizations were added for Gotham Knights, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, and Dakar Desert Rally.

Besides RTX 4090, these drivers officially introduce support for DLSS 3, which works only on RTX 40-series (or later) GPUs, as it needs the Optical Flow Accelerator hardware component. Day-zero support is added for a number of titles, including A Plague Tale: Requiem, Justice, Loopmancer, F1 22, Bright Memory: Infinite, SUPER PEOPLE, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. NVIDIA is also said to have improved the performance of DirectX 12 applications across the board on RTX 30-series "Ampere" graphics cards.

DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 522.25 WHQLChange-log
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for the latest new DLSS titles including Gotham Knights, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, and Dakar Desert Rally. In addition, this Game Ready Driver supports the first new DLSS 3 titles including A Plague Tale: Requiem, Justice, Loopmancer, F1 22, Bright Memory: Infinite, SUPER PEOPLE, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. This Game Ready Driver also includes significant DirectX 12 performance optimizations which can dramatically improve performance for GeForce 30 Series GPUs.

Gaming Technology

• Includes support for the GeForce RTX 4090.

Fixed Issues in Version 522.25 WHQL

• [Teardown] Resolves lower performance observed when MSI Afterburner overlay is used
• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands displays texture corruption after extended gameplay on NVIDIA GPUs
• UE5.1 crashes when enabling path tracing on some drivers

Open Issues in Version 522.25 WHQL

• Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
• Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabledupon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot. [3624218]
• [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabledfrom the Windows display settings. [200742937]
• Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
• [RTX 30 series] Lower performance in Minecraft Java Edition. [3702953]
• [Forza Horizon 5] Rainbow like artifacts in game after driver update. [3685123]
• Dell XPS 9560 may crash and reboot when using desktop applications [3737715]
• Maxon - Cinema4D + Redshift3D vidmemory allocations cause TDR or Driver Crash [3659104]
• RedCine-X Pro potential crash while working with effects during video playback [3809401]