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nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 576.40

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2025-05-13 00:00 27110

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nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver unleashes the full power and features in nVIDIA’s desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. nVIDIA GeForce software ensures the best experience with your nVIDIA hardware. It delivers a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications.

Incredible 3D and video performance for all of your applications.
Rock-solid system stability, greater compatibility and reliability with nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture.
Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security.
Continual product performance and feature updates for the life of your nVIDIA hardware.

This nVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver package supports GeForce 600, 700, 800, 900, 10, TITAN, RTX 20, RTX 30 and RTX 40 series desktop GPUs as well as laptop GPUs. Also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1.

Game Ready for DOOM: The Dark Ages

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including DOOM: The Dark Ages and New World: Aeternum.

Gaming Technology

Adds support for nVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

This release supports the following APIs:

Open Computing Language (OpenCL software) 3.0 for NVIDIA Maxwell and later GPUs
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan 1.4
DirectX 11
DirectX 12

Software Module Versions

HD Audio Driver – 1.4.3.2
NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.23.1019
CUDA – 12.9
DCH NVIDIA Control Panel – 8.1.967.0

Discontinued Support

NvIFR OpenGL support. Release 470 was the last driver branch to support this functionality. NvIFR header files, samples and documentation have been removed from the NVIDIA Capture SDK 7.1.9 release. Future drivers will remove NvIFR.dll and any other reference to NvIFR.

Discontinued Support

3D Vision. Beginning with Release 430, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports the following 3D Vision technologies and features:
- NVIDIA 3D Stereoscopic Driver, including the 3D Vision driver and USB (emitter)
  driver
- NVAPI-based stereo APIs for Direct3D applications.
NVIDIA Kepler GPUs for Notebooks
- Beginning with Release 430, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports NVIDIA GPUs for notebooks based on the Kepler architecture.
32-bit Operating Systems
- Beginning with Release 396, NVIDIA is no longer releasing Game Ready drivers for 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture.

GeForce Driver 576.40 Release Notes [PDF]:

Fixed Gaming Bugs

[Monster Hunter Wilds] Random stability issues [5204023]
[RTX 50 series] Dead Space Remake displays shadow flicker [5241013]

Fixed General Bugs

[RTX 50 series] Colors may appear slightly saturated in games when in game-resolution is below the native resolution of the monitor [5158681]
[RTX 50 series] ASUS PG32UQXR/Asus ROG PG248QP/Asus ROG PG32UCDM display may boot to black screen [5088957]
Slight stutter may be observed on certain LG TVs at lower refresh rates when G-SYNC is enabled [5198025]

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Homepage – https://www.nvidia.com

Starting with driver version 511.65, the NVIDIA OpenCL driver has added support for the following new provisional extension specifications released by Khronos. The specifications are for OpenCL external semaphore and external memory.

Supported Products for Desktop:

NVIDIA TITAN Series: NVIDIA TITAN RTX, nVIDIA TITAN V, nVIDIA TITAN Xp, nVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), nVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

nVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D, nVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, nVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, nVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, nVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, nVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
GeForce RTX 40 Series: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D, nVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, GeForce RTX 4080, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 4070, GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, GeForce RTX 4060
GeForce RTX 30 Series: GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce RTX 20 Series: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce 16 Series: GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce GTX 1650

GeForce 10 Series: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030, GeForce GT 1010

GeForce 900 Series: GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 700 Series: GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710

Supported Products for Notebooks:

GeForce RTX 40 Series (Notebooks): GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
GeForce RTX 30 Series (Notebooks): GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU

GeForce RTX 20 Series (Notebooks): GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce MX500 Series (Notebooks): GeForce MX570, GeForce MX550
GeForce MX400 Series (Notebooks): GeForce MX450
GeForce MX300 Series (Notebooks): GeForce MX350, GeForce MX330
GeForce MX200 Series (Notebooks): GeForce MX250, GeForce MX230
GeForce MX100 Series (Notebook): GeForce MX150, GeForce MX130, GeForce MX110
GeForce GTX 16 Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, GeForce GTX 1650
GeForce 10 Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce 900M Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 980M, GeForce GTX 970M, GeForce GTX 965M, GeForce GTX 960M, GeForce GTX 950M, GeForce 945M, GeForce 940MX, GeForce 930MX, GeForce 920MX, GeForce 940M, GeForce 930M
GeForce 800M Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 860M, GeForce GTX 850M, GeForce 845M, GeForce 840M, GeForce 830M

Size: 818 MB