Nvidia’s “Game Ready” for Battlefield 6 with its GeForce 581.42 drivers
Nvidia is “Game Ready” for Battlefield 6 and FTC: Firebreak’s new Breakpoint update
With the release of its new GeForce 581.42 update, Nvidia is now “Game Ready” for Battlefield 6, which will be available on PC on October 10th. This driver is also optimised for FTC Firebreak’s new “Breakpoint” update, and brings new G-Assist features to RTX laptop users. Below are this driver’s official release notes.
Nvidia GeForce 581.42 WHQL GPU Driver Release Notes
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 Gaming Bugs
- Battlefield 2042: Increased GPU Crashing when calling CDXGISwapChain::Present() [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]
Open Issues in Version 581.42 WHQL
As with every released driver, version 581.42 WHQL of the Release 580 driver has open issues and enhancement requests associated with it. This section includes lists of issues that are either not fixed or not implemented in this version. Some problems listed may not have been thoroughly investigated and, in fact, may not be NVIDIA issues. Others may have workaround solutions.
- 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]
Nvidia’s GeForce 581.42 Game Ready driver is available to download here.
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