NVIDIA Releases GeForce 496.49 Game Ready Drivers

[btarunr]

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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[GoldenX]

Still broken OpenGL and degraded Vulkan. Nvidia's turn I guess.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Dear Nvidia,

Not including the control panel with the driver is unacceptable. See to that problem.

 

[5 o'clock Charlie]

Dear Nvidia,

Not including the control panel with the driver is unacceptable. See to that problem.

Did this occur from a clean install or an in-place update? I updated mine from 496.13 and my control panel is still there.

On a side-note, happy to see the flickering issue resolved with Division 2. Will have to test that out later.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Did this occur from a clean install or an in-place update? I updated mine from 496.13 and my control panel is still there.

On a side-note, happy to see the flickering issue resolved with Division 2. Will have to test that out later.

Clean install. The point being that some people don't & will not be using the microsoft store and we should NOT have to hunt down the control panel app and side-load it. The control panel needs to be INCLUDED, like it always has been before, with the drivers.

 

[5 o'clock Charlie]

Clean install. The point being that some people don't & will not be using the microsoft store and we should NOT have to hunt down the control panel app and side-load it. The control panel needs to be INCLUDED, like it always has been before, with the drivers.

Interesting, I wonder when that happened? I never use the windows store, but opening it now shows that it was installed. I do not recall using the windows store, so I assume it was done automatically during the driver install. I take that you removed the windows store from your installation? I guess you could use the NVCleaninstall utility, but then again, not sure if the windows store app is required in order for the ulitity to download the control panel.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Interesting, I wonder when that happened?

When you transition from the standard drivers to the DCH drivers and you install them offline the control panel is not automatically installed with the drivers.

 

[R-T-B]

Still broken OpenGL and degraded Vulkan. Nvidia's turn I guess.

Care to elaborate? Granted I do not use either API a lot, but minecraft at least seemingly runs.

 

[GoldenX]

Minecraft uses old feature sets.
Seems like some logic was changed in OpenGL with the purge of Kepler, affecting rendering on most emulators.
Vulkan suffers some changes too, but minor. Still, 472 is needed to preserve functionality until we figure out what changed.

 

[arni-gx]

so, are this new nvidia driver, has full support of g-sync compatible on xiaomi 34 inch lcd monitor ??

 

[Raller]

And Win 7 Support!? Has anyone a plan to install the newest driver on Win 7!?

 

[StefanM]

Still, 472 is needed to preserve functionality until we figure out what change

And Win 7 Support!? Has anyone a plan to install the newest driver on Win 7!?

Get 472.39 security update

 

[Raller]

Get 472.39 security update

Many Thanks....And once the update is installed, the driver also goes!?

 

[xela333]

so, are this new nvidia driver, has full support of g-sync compatible on xiaomi 34 inch lcd monitor ??

I have the same monitor with nVidia G-sync enabled and it works perfectly. What issues are you having?

 

[Deleted member 211755]

A lot of known issues... Gonna skip this version probably.
On previous driver there was no problems with Red Dead 2.
I'm scared if I update my game could start crashing.

 

[arni-gx]

I have the same monitor with nVidia G-sync enabled and it works perfectly. What issues are you having?

first of all.... this is my lcd monitor is have bought from august 2021, but i just using g-sync since last monday.....

this trouble is arise when i am using nvidia old driver....

1. monday, 1st time using g-sync, all is great on some pc games.....
2. tuesday, after turn on my pc, the color is washed out, my pc must be restart for the color is back to normal.....
3. for the same of pc games, there is some little flicker when average fps is under 144 with v-sync = ON...

 

[lexluthermiester]

And Win 7 Support!? Has anyone a plan to install the newest driver on Win 7!?

472.12 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.

 

[c2DDragon]

A lot of known issues... Gonna skip this version probably.
On previous driver there was no problems with Red Dead 2.
I'm scared if I update my game could start crashing.

I didn't encountered any crash in Red Dead Online, I didn't try the story since I have nothing to do in it anymore, maybe it's only in the story it could crash.

 

[Deleted member 211755]

I didn't encountered any crash in Red Dead Online, I didn't try the story since I have nothing to do in it anymore, maybe it's only in the story it could crash.

I went on and updated anyways. Security patches are important in every driver update.
Since I bought Fallout 4, I've been playing that game intensively with mods installed around the Horizon mod.
If a 2015 title gives me no trouble with the newest drivers I guess I'm in the clear.
Tell me, is Red Dead Online so good as they say it is?
I've beaten the single player story once and started it again since they pretty much patched the game and it's stable now.
Never given the Online part of the game much chance.
I played it for like two hours.

 

[c2DDragon]

I went on and updated anyways. Security patches are important in every driver update.
Since I bought Fallout 4, I've been playing that game intensively with mods installed around the Horizon mod.
If a 2015 title gives me no trouble with the newest drivers I guess I'm in the clear.
Tell me, is Red Dead Online so good as they say it is?
I've beaten the single player story once and started it again since they pretty much patched the game and it's stable now.
Never given the Online part of the game much chance.
I played it for like two hours.

It's a long farming game, you farm for gold (jobs on map or main quest or multiplayer content), you won't earn a lot, with this gold you can buy jobs, with the jobs you farm money so you can buy skins, guns, horses and equipment for the job, then you farm gold again, unlock another job, repeat xD

The only job that gives gold is bounty hunter, it's fun and helps a lot ranking up so you unlock better guns and horses to buy.
Treasure maps give gold & dollars.

It's a nice game but it lacks of content, they add some from time to time but it's not like GTA Online.

Also you can spend a lot of time without seeing another player but you can find yourself staying 2h in PVP gunfights in a town.
It's a good game if you want to chill. There is a fishing competition too as for multiplayer content and poker.

I like it because I'm not scared of farming. Hunt for the merchant job for money/exp, bounty hunt for gold & easy exp, sell alcohol, search for legendary animals.

There are books you can buy (Halloween Pass 2 right now), there require gold and with exp you earn doing whatever you want, you unlock skins and sometimes more.

 

[Deleted member 211755]

It's a long farming game, you farm for gold (jobs on map or main quest or multiplayer content), you won't earn a lot, with this gold you can buy jobs, with the jobs you farm money so you can buy skins, guns, horses and equipment for the job, then you farm gold again, unlock another job, repeat xD

The only job that gives gold is bounty hunter, it's fun and helps a lot ranking up so you unlock better guns and horses to buy.
Treasure maps give gold & dollars.

It's a nice game but it lacks of content, they add some from time to time but it's not like GTA Online.

Also you can spend a lot of time without seeing another player but you can find yourself staying 2h in PVP gunfights in a town.
It's a good game if you want to chill. There is a fishing competition too as for multiplayer content and poker.

I like it because I'm not scared of farming. Hunt for the merchant job for money/exp, bounty hunt for gold & easy exp, sell alcohol, search for legendary animals.

There are books you can buy (Halloween Pass 2 right now), there require gold and with exp you earn doing whatever you want, you unlock skins and sometimes more.

Well, it certainly seems pretty fun! Especially fishing competition and poker since I loved doing both on a regular basis in the single player story.
Do you remember that awful bug that was plaguing the game while playing poker?
The game would crash every time while playing poker.
I was in contact with Rockstar Support for almost three months because of it.
I was happy as a child once I saw that fixed

 

[c2DDragon]

Well, it certainly seems pretty fun! Especially fishing competition and poker since I loved doing both on a regular basis in the single player story.
Do you remember that awful bug that was plaguing the game while playing poker?
The game would crash every time while playing poker.
I was in contact with Rockstar Support for almost three months because of it.
I was happy as a child once I saw that fixed

I don't remember I had this bug

 

[Deleted member 211755]

I don't remember I had this bug

You're lucky! I had to send videos and screenshots and logs to prove to their support that it's happening.
I was always on newest drivers and latest patches for the game, but the problem would continue to bug me.
Maybe you weren't affected because you have a GTX 1080Ti as I see and I have a Turing GTX 1660...
Maybe it was because I have a Ryzen, not Intel, who knows...

 

[StefanM]

GeForce hotfix display driver version 496.61 is based on NVIDIA's latest Game Ready Driver 496.49.

The hotfix addresses the following issues:

• [Transport Fever/Transport Fever 2] Game will crash to desktop on startup [3411731/3409614]
• [Detroit Become Human] Users may experience micro-stutters during gameplay [3389250]
• [Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon] Visual artifacts may be observed during gameplay [3410593]
• [WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship/RiMS Racing/TT Isle of Man - Ride on the Edge 2] Game will crash to desktop soon after being launched [3409320/3416650/3408673]

Click here to download the GeForce hotfix display driver for Windows 10 x64/ Windows 11 x64.

 

[arni-gx]

GeForce hotfix display driver version 496.61 is based on NVIDIA's latest Game Ready Driver 496.49.

The hotfix addresses the following issues:

• [Transport Fever/Transport Fever 2] Game will crash to desktop on startup [3411731/3409614]
• [Detroit Become Human] Users may experience micro-stutters during gameplay [3389250]
• [Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon] Visual artifacts may be observed during gameplay [3410593]
• [WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship/RiMS Racing/TT Isle of Man - Ride on the Edge 2] Game will crash to desktop soon after being launched [3409320/3416650/3408673]

Click here to download the GeForce hotfix display driver for Windows 10 x64/ Windows 11 x64.

but, i never buy that pc games, so do i must install that new nvidia driver hotfix, today ??