
It is therefore highly recommended to custom install Nvidia graphics drivers and not use the express installation option that the installer offers. It is now used for instance to download and install updates automatically.Įven if you do not use the drivers, they may be loaded with the operating system and features they offer may be displayed in various menus of the operating system. Initially designed to offer configurations for games to improve performance or visuals, it has since been pushed to be a lot more than that. Then there is GeForce Experience, a new software that requires registration.
Another example is the audio driver that you only need if you use the card's audio capabilities. If your monitor does not support 3D for instance, you can't really make use of the 3D drivers that get installed anyway on your system. If you select to do a full installation in the installer, you end up with installed drivers for features that you may not be able to use at all.
Game Ready Driver Release Notes (v466.The package has currently a size of nearly 380 Megabyte and one of the reasons for that is that it includes several components and not only the graphics driver. Our 3D Vision Video Player will continue to be offered as a standalone download, for free, until the end of 2019. It is no longer available as a standalone download. Our software that enables the use of 3D gaming with 3D TVs, 3DTV Play, is now included for free in Release 418. Those looking to utilize 3D Vision can remain on a Release 418 driver. A complete list of Kepler-series GeForce GPUs can be found here. Critical security updates will be available for these products through April 2020. Please note: Effective April 12, 2018, Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only for desktop Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing and Ampere-series, as well as for systems utilizing mobile Maxwell, Pascal, and Turing-series GPUs for notebooks.įollowing the posting of the final driver from Release 418 on ApGeForce Game Ready Drivers will no longer support NVIDIA 3D Vision or systems utilizing mobile Kepler-series GPUs.