GeForce Game Ready Driver 452.06

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NVIDIA has a new hotfix driver

Focusing on several game issues. 



We got used to seeing NVIDIA releasing hotfix drivers more frequenlty than before, but this release does not appear to be a major one. It does not focus on hardware crashes or fixes, rather it focuses on game related problems. 

NVIDIA has rolled out GeForce Hotfix 576.66, which is built on the recent Game Ready Driver 576.52. This update targets specific stability and display issues affecting recent games and RTX 50 series GPUs. Among the fixes, players of Dune: Awakening, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and EA Sports FC 25 should see improved stability, as NVIDIA has resolved reported crashes tied to these titles.

The hotfix also addresses visual anomalies on RTX 50 series cards. In Dragon’s Dogma 2, shadow flickering has been corrected, while a separate issue causing brief red or green flash corruption during video playback in web browsers has also been fixed, according to the changelog:
 

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.66

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.66 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 576.52.

• Dune: Awakening may crash during gameplay [5273568]
  
• EA Sports FC 25 may crash during gameplay [5251937]
  
• [RTX 50 series] Dragons Dogma 2 displays shadow flicker [5252205]
  
• [RTX 50 series] Video playback in a web browser may show brief red/green flash corruption [5241341]
  
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 may crash [5283401]
  

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Highlights 

Game Ready for FBC: Firebreak and DOOM: The Dark Ages Path Tracing Update

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including FBC: Firebreak and REMATCH, as well as the Path Tracing update for DOOM: The Dark Ages.

Fixed Issues

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Dune: Awakening: stability issues [5273568]
  
• EA Sports FC 25: stability issues [5251937]
  
• Dragons Dogma 2: displays shadow flicker [5252205]
  
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: stability issues [5283401]
  
• Enshrouded: crashes after launching game [5279848]
  
• Monster Hunter World: stability issues when playing in DX12 mode [5305302]
  
• Gray Zone Warfare: stability issues [5284518]
  
• Marvel Rivals: stability issues [5273681]
  
• Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut: Flickering/corruption around light sources [5138067]
  
• GTA V Enhanced: stability issues [5302755]
  
• Honor of Kings: World: stability issues [5304344]
  
• Forza Horizon 5: stability issues [5131160]
  
• Indiana Jones and The Great Circle: Image corruption [5326122]
  

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Highlights 

Game Ready for Mecha BREAK and Diablo IV

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Mecha BREAK, as well as the DLSS 4 updates for Diablo IV and Monster Hunter Wilds.

Gaming Technology

Adds support for GeForce RTX 5050 desktop and laptop GPUs

Fixed Issues

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• When enabling NVIDIA Smooth Motion in games, GPU video memory runs at slightly lower speed [5337348]
  
• Cyberpunk 2077: Some notebooks will freeze when NVIDIA App Overlay is used when DLSS Frame Generation is enabled [5327306]
  

Fixed General Bugs

• Black screen when installing drivers on some AMD Ryzen configurations [5107271]
  
• Black screen when switching between 480Hz and 360Hz on Sony SDM-27Q10S
  monitor [5335399]
  

Known Issues

• Cyberpunk 2077 will crash when using Photo Mode to take a screenshot with path tracing enabled [5076545]
  
• Battlefield 2042: random square artifacts may appear around lights during gameplay [5284105]
  
• World of Warcraft: displays artifacts when ray tracing is enabled [5273429]
  
• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  

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Highlights 

Game Ready for WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers, as well as the Unreal Engine 5 update for Valorant.

New DLSS Overrides

• 7 Days to Die
  
• Brickadia
  
• Monster Energy Supercross 25 – The Official Video Game
  
• Monster Hunter Wilds
  
• REMATCH
  
• RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business
  
• Strinova
  
• Stygian: Outer Gods
  
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
  
• Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks
  
• WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers 
  

Fixed Issues

• Counter-Strike 2: Black screen using 4:3 aspect ratio resolution on ASUS ROG PG27AQN monitor [5300665]
  
• NARAKA BLADEPOINT: Stability issues on a specific map when using DX11 and DLSS Super Resolution [5374090]
  

Known Issues

• Cyberpunk 2077 will crash when using Photo Mode to take a screenshot with path tracing enabled [5076545]
  
• Battlefield 2042: random square artifacts may appear around lights during gameplay [5284105]
  
• World of Warcraft: displays artifacts when ray tracing is enabled [5273429]
  
• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  

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Highlights 

Game Ready for Borderlands 4 and Dying Light: The Beast
 
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Borderlands 4 and Dying Light: The Beast

Fixed Issues

• Marvel Rivals: Negative performance impact when using some 581.xx drivers
  

Known Issues

• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  
• Adobe Premiere Pro: Some system configurations can freeze during export using hardware encoding [5431822]
  
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
  

Package Contents

• HD Audio Driver — 1.4.5.0
  
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software — 9.23.1019
  
• CUDA — 13.0
  
• DCH NVIDIA Control Panel — 8.1.968.0
  

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Highlights 

Game Ready for Battlefield 6

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Battlefield 6 and the latest update for FBC: Firebreak.

Fixed Issues

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Battlefield 2042: Increased GPU Crashing when calling CDXGISwapChain:resent() [5446395]
  
• Forza Horizon 4: light flickering on RTX 50 series [5404555]
  
• Planet Coaster 2: crashes after driver update [5447412]
  
• FPS significantly drops when using Smooth Motion with RivaTuner FPS cap [5476266]
  
• R580 drivers causing stuttering in games using GODOT engine [5466820]
  

Fixed General Bugs

• Adobe After Effects / Premiere Pro: crash on launch when Smooth Motion is enabled globally [5515256]
  
• Adobe Premiere Pro: Some system configurations can freeze during export using hardware encoding [5431822]
  
•  When Video Noise Reduction is enabled the chroma is grayscale [5401959]
  

Known Issues

• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
  

Package Contents

• HD Audio Driver — 1.4.5.0
  
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software — 9.23.1019
  
• CUDA — 13.0
  
• DCH NVIDIA Control Panel — 8.1.968.0
  

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Highlights 

Game Ready for ARC Raiders
 
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including ARC Raiders, Pax Dei, The Outer Worlds, 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.

Fixed Issues

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Steam overlay may cause game stability issues [5521892]
  
• Hell is Us: Random red/green visual glitches during gameplay [5505371]
  
• Black Myth: Wukong: Minor graphical glitch may randomly appear during gameplay after updating to R580 drivers [5453535]
  
• Madden 26: Stability issues after updating to R580 drivers [5446236]
  
• Games may crash if the installed game directory contains Chinese characters while Smooth Motion is enabled [5537563]
  
• Total War: Warhammer III: Graphics corruption [5363634]
  
• Delta Force: game stability issues when Smooth Motion is enabled [5540567]
  
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: Display artifacts and stability issues when starting a game after waking PC from sleep [5467318]
  

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Highlights 

Game Ready for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
 
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. In addition, there is Game Ready support for Anno 117: Pax Romana and Europa Universalis V which feature DLSS Super Resolution.

Fixed Issues

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• F1 25: Performance optimizations when using DLSS Frame Generation [5422722]
  

Fixed General Bugs

• Vulkan apps crash when launched on Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad CPUs [550916
  

Known Issues

• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
  

Package Contents

• HD Audio Driver — 1.4.5.0
  
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software — 9.23.1019
  
• CUDA — 13.0
  
• DCH NVIDIA Control Panel — 8.1.968.0
  

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Game Ready for Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive
 
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. In addition, support for 32-bit GPU-accelerated PhysX effects has been added for select classic titles on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

Fixed Issues

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Battlefield 6: Gaming stability issues [5582125]
  
• Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
  
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
  
• Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: Corruption after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
  
• Black Myth: Wukong: Lower performance in driver branches newer than R570 [5562283]
  
• Monster Hunter World: Iceborne: Some particle effects may be missing on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5546598]
  
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3: Gameplay becomes dim over time [5488108]
  
• Madden 26: Stability issues [5535693]
  
• Users running R580 branch drivers (58x.xx) or newer may observe lower performance in some games after updating to Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835 [5561605]
  
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Random corruption on main character’s sword corruption [5363151]
  

Fixed General Bugs

1. Adobe Premiere Pro: Freeze During Export Using Hardware Encoding [5431822]
   
2. Sophos Home Antivirus: System stability issues [5581371]
   
3. Green line observed while viewing videos in Chromium browser on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5535388]
   

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Highlights 

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games and updates and resolves key issues which were found in the previous release.

Fixed Issues

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Enshrouded: Game stability issues on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5664067]
  
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: HDR toggle not functional when Smooth Motion is enabled [5469746]
  
• Dying Light: The Beast: Game stability issues after updating to 591.44 driver [5720536]
  

Fixed General Bugs

• Display color seems faded after switching to non-native resolution [5548662]
  
• Using RTX HDR on select televisions causes games to blackscreen [5720286]
  

Known Issues

• Unable to deselect “Show Notification Tray Icon” from NVIDIA Control Panel [5622213]
  

Package Contents

• HD Audio Driver — 1.4.5.7
  
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software — 9.23.1019
  
• CUDA — 13.1
  
• DCH NVIDIA Control Panel — 8.1.969.0
  

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