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NVIDIA has released a new WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) gaming driver for Windows 10 and Windows 11. This driver R536.23 belongs to the new R535 family (535.xx to 539.xx) and brings the following changes:

Game Ready for F1 23

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games featuring DLSS 2 technology including F1 23. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver supports the launch of Aliens: Dark Descent.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

– [Microsoft Flight Simulator] Game may randomly crash when playing in DX12 mode after updating to driver 531.41
– [Red Dead Redemption] Game shows random stability issues

Fixed General Bugs

– Fast sync caps the game FPS to the monitors maximum refresh rate
– Surface Book/Surface Studio stuck at lowest clock speeds when running on battery
– When using multiple monitors which support adaptive sync, users may see random flicker on certain displays when G-SYNC is enabled after updating to driver 535.98
– [ON1 Photo RAW] Application crashing

More gaming info is available HERE.

UPDATE (2023.06.29): GeForce R536.40

Gaming Technology

– Introduces support for the GeForce RTX 4060.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

– [Street Fighter 6] Corruption during the fight start cutscene when MFAA is applied.

Fixed General Bugs

– [Optix Denoiser] Addresses vignette effect that could appear on image border pixels.
– Not able to detect external HDMI display from NVCPL after driver re-installed.

More gaming info is available HERE.

UPDATE (2023.08.01): GeForce R536.67

Gaming Technology

– Introduces support for the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

– Applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters cause games to crash

Fixed General Bugs

– Increase in DPC latency observed in Latencymon for Ampere-based GPUs

UPDATE (2023.08.09): GeForce R536.99

Game Ready for Baldur’s Gate 3

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 2 technology including Baldur’s Gate 3, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Gord.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

– [Control][DX12] Cut scenes and videos show tearing and partial jitter
– [Battlefield 2042] Game stability can decrease when applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters.
– [GeForce Experience] Game stability can decrease when applying a GeForce Experience Freestyle filter in certain games while using DLSS 3 Frame Generation
– [Dead Space] Game stability issues

Fixed General Bugs

– [Elgato Wave Link] Potential audio issues with NVIDIA Broadcast effects

UPDATE (2023.08.11): GeForce R537.09 HotFix

GeForce Hotfix display driver version 537.09 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 536.99.

This hotfix addresses the following issue:
– [Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart] Performance fluctuations due to issues between DirectStorage and some in-game settings

Downloads

GeForce 536.23 quick test

GPU Shark 2:

GPU Caps Viewer

OpenGL support

GeForce 536.23

GeForce 536.23 exposes OpenGL 4.6 and 433 extensions for a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti on Windows 10 (v22H2). Same support than R528.xx.

GL_RENDERER: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 536.23
OpenGL extensions: 433

GeForce 536.40

Same OpenGL support than R536.23.

GeForce 536.67

Same OpenGL support than R536.23.

GeForce 536.99 and 537.09

Same OpenGL support than R536.23.

Vulkan support

GeForce 536.23

This driver exposes Vulkan 1.3.242 and 187 device extensions for a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti on Windows 10 22H2. It’s the same support than previous R535.98 / R536.09

Report from GPU Shark 2

- Device 1
  - name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
  - device type: VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU
  - device ID: 10DE-2782
  - API version: 1.3.242
  - NVIDIA driver version: 536.23.0.0
  - VK_KHR_driver_properties information:
    - driverName: NVIDIA
    - driverID_str: VK_DRIVER_ID_NVIDIA_PROPRIETARY_KHR
    - driverID: 4
    - conformanceVersion: 1.3.0.5
    - driverInfo: 536.23
  - # of extensions: 187